Battery capacity loggerForum: Laptops Topic: Battery capacity logger started by: thenuke Posted by thenuke on Nov. 15 2004,06:01
I was exploring through the fascinating filesystem of Linux and then I found /proc/acpi/battery/MBAT/There can be found current battery capacity among other stuff in a text file named state. So I thought about learning a bit of scripting and now I have a crontab running a script which logs current battery capacity every minute with clock time. Grab it from there if you wish to: < http://cygserv.cygnnet.jkl.fi/thenuke/batlog > If you happen to ask what could be done with this. I'm going to try to draw some graphs with some spreadsheet software outta the data I gather. "Crontab is a program that allows users to create jobs that will run at a given time." Crontab is not installed on DSL by default, I used apt-get install cron to get that. Because I do not like vi-editor I command EDITOR=nano followed by crontab -e which then opens my favourite editor nano. On the first empty line I write * * * * * /home/thenuke/batlog That then runs batlog-script every minute. Check man crontab for more info on that if you wish. p.s. This was like my first linux script and contribution to these forums, I am sure that one could do the same with one line of code but I'm not the one yet ;-) join the irc.freenode.net & #damnsmalllinux Posted by ico2 on Nov. 24 2004,17:18
mmmmmmmmmmm, you don't mind if i steal your idea and try to make a nice graphical battery monitor do you?
Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 24 2004,21:17
I thought crontab was there by default in /etc/crontabBrian AwPhuch Posted by caulktel on Nov. 24 2004,21:19
I can't seem to grab it from the above link.
Posted by Toasted Pentiums on Nov. 24 2004,21:44
I'm running 0.8.3, and there is a similar file in /proc/apm. And I cannot access the site to download the script either, so could you post the code in this thread? |