Low-batt notification for Puppy? (Solved)

[muggins]

I recently changed my pupversion & liked everything except the included powerapplet_tray, which didn'r seem to reflect my laptop's real battery state.

So i'm happy I came across sfs's link for cbatticon, which is easy to compile, accurately reflects battery state, and with which you can have a script in /root/Startup with something like:

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cbatticon -l 10 -r 5 -c wmpoweroff

where it will warn you when percentage gets to 10, then poweroff at 5%.

[festus]

I recently changed my pupversion & liked everything except the included powerapplet_tray, which didn'r seem to reflect my laptop's real battery state.

So i'm happy I came across sfs's link for cbatticon, which is easy to compile, accurately reflects battery state, and with which you can have a script in /root/Startup with something like:

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cbatticon -l 10 -r 5 -c wmrpoweroff

where it will warn you when percentage gets to 10, then poweroff at 5%.

Hello, muggins, I am interested in this battery app, but can not compile it, as I have always compiled sources starting with - "./configure --prefix=/usr"
and it did not work with this cbatticon source.

Would you, please, post your comp. recipe for this app.?

btw, I'm using xenial-7.5 & slacko-6999, if that matters any.

Thank you

bliss,
festus

[muggins]

Hello Festus,

I just ran the included makefile & it generated a 31k binary. You can than
just copy the binary to /usr/bin.

[matchpoint]

Hello festus, run the build like this: make WITH_GTK3=0

[muggins]

Thanks Matchpoint,

I forgot you can compile it for gtk3 or gtk2. I just changed line 7, of the makefile, to "WITH_GTK3 = 0".

[muggins]

OK,

here's a pet attached for anyone that wants to try it. I don't know that it will work in every pupversion, but it should in most.

Run

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cbatticon -h

to see usage options. Or open, in a text editor, the script /root/Startup/cbatt and modify it to suit your laptop/preferences. At the moment it has:

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#!/bin/sh

cbatticon -l 5 -r 3 -c wmreboot

So is set to reboot when battery level gets to 3%.

[festus]

Thanks for the help, muggins & matchpoint.

I should have realized running "make" would work since it already contained the Makefile.

I am testing it on slacko-6999(32 bit), using "WITH_GTK3 = 1", since I installed gtk3 in this pup.

@muggins
In your initial post about cbatticon, is thie command correct?:
cbatticon -l 10 -r 5 -c wmrpoweroff
the "wmrpoweroff" in particular?
Is the "r" supposed to be there?

Thanks again,
festus

[bigpup]

I would call that a typo.
Puppy uses

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wmpoweroff

[festus]

I would call that a typo.
Puppy uses

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wmpoweroff

Thanks, bigpup, for the clarification.

I decided to use the gtk-2 vesion on all my pups, and tested it out on slacko-6999 by letting the battery run down past my critical setting of 5%, and it did indeed poweroff the laptop, as desired.

Thanks to all,
festus

[muggins]

Yes,

a typo as bigpup said. Corrected initial post. Thanks.

[Subito Piano]

Thanks, muggins! For some reason my home laptop makes a LOT of noise to warn of a low battery (a BIOS feature) but my work laptop doesn't. You solution is nice and small -- and an easily-installed pet.

Just in case somebody else needs an audible warning, my one tweak (after installation) -- in case I'm not in front of my laptop when the battery gets low -- was to add an alarm. I found a nice WAV file of a siren ("siren.wav" - it has to be a WAV file for some reason), put it in /usr/audio, and edited the cbatt file in ~/Startup to read so:

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#!/bin/sh

cbatticon -l 5 -r 3 -c "aplay /usr/share/audio/siren.wav wmreboot"

Now it warns me visually at around 5%, then again at 3%, then soon I am audibly warned of an impending nuclear meltdown! Nice and annoying -- it grabs my attention.