<h3>Entries from March 2016.</h3>
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Full_battery_stats_collector_is_now_available_in_Debian.html">Full battery stats collector is now available in Debian</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 23rd March 2016
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>Since this morning, the battery-stats package in Debian include an
+extended collector that will collect the complete battery history for
+later processing and graphing. The original collector store the
+battery level as percentage of last full level, while the new
+collector also record battery vendor, model, serial number, design
+full level, last full level and current battery level. This make it
+possible to predict the lifetime of the battery as well as visualise
+the energy flow when the battery is charging or discharging.</p>
+
+<p>The new tools are available in <tt>/usr/share/battery-stats/</tt>
+in the version 0.5.1 package in unstable. Get the new battery level graph
+and lifetime prediction by running:
+
+<p><pre>
+/usr/share/battery-stats/battery-stats-graph /var/log/battery-stats.csv
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>Or select the 'Battery Level Graph' from your application menu.</p>
+
+<p>The flow in/out of the battery can be seen by running (no menu
+entry yet):</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+/usr/share/battery-stats/battery-stats-graph-flow
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>I'm not quite happy with the way the data is visualised, at least
+when there are few data points. The graphs look a bit better with a
+few years of data.</p>
+
+<p>A while back one important feature I use in the battery stats
+collector broke in Debian. The scripts in
+<tt>/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/</tt> were no longer executed. I
+suspect it happened when Jessie started using systemd, but I do not
+know. The issue is reported as bug #818649 against pm-utils. I
+managed to work around it by adding an udev rule to call the collector
+script every time the power connector is connected and disconnected.
+With this fix in place it was finally time to make a new release of
+the package, and get it into Debian.</p>
+
+<p>If you are interested in how your laptop battery is doing, please
+check out the
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats">battery-stats</a>
+in Debian unstable, or rebuild it on Jessie to get it working on
+Debian stable. :) The upstream source is available from
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats">github</a>.
+As always, patches are very welcome.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
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<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2016/02/">February (2)</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2016/03/">March (2)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2016/03/">March (3)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/chrpath">chrpath (2)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (121)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (122)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (154)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (304)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (305)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (23)</a></li>
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