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15 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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23 <div class="title">Discharge rate estimate in new battery statistics collector for Debian</div>
24 <div class="date">23rd May 2016</div>
25 <div class="body"><p>Yesterday I updated the
26 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats">battery-stats
27 package in Debian</a> with a few patches sent to me by skilled and
28 enterprising users. There were some nice user and visible changes.
29 First of all, both desktop menu entries now work. A design flaw in
30 one of the script made the history graph fail to show up (its PNG was
31 dumped in ~/.xsession-errors) if no controlling TTY was available.
32 The script worked when called from the command line, but not when
33 called from the desktop menu. I changed this to look for a DISPLAY
34 variable or a TTY before deciding where to draw the graph, and now the
35 graph window pop up as expected.</p>
36
37 <p>The next new feature is a discharge rate estimator in one of the
38 graphs (the one showing the last few hours). New is also the user of
39 colours showing charging in blue and discharge in red. The percentages
40 of this graph is relative to last full charge, not battery design
41 capacity.</p>
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43 <p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-rate.png"/></p>
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45 <p>The other graph show the entire history of the collected battery
46 statistics, comparing it to the design capacity of the battery to
47 visualise how the battery life time get shorter over time. The red
48 line in this graph is what the previous graph considers 100 percent:
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50 <p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-history.png"/></p>
51
52 <p>In this graph you can see that I only charge the battery to 80
53 percent of last full capacity, and how the capacity of the battery is
54 shrinking. :(</p>
55
56 <p>The last new feature is in the collector, which now will handle
57 more hardware models. On some hardware, Linux power supply
58 information is stored in /sys/class/power_supply/ACAD/, while the
59 collector previously only looked in /sys/class/power_supply/AC/. Now
60 both are checked to figure if there is power connected to the
61 machine.</p>
62
63 <p>If you are interested in how your laptop battery is doing, please
64 check out the
65 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats">battery-stats</a>
66 in Debian unstable, or rebuild it on Jessie to get it working on
67 Debian stable. :) The upstream source is available from <a
68 href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats">github</a>.
69 Patches are very welcome.</p>
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71 <p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
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