On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:54 -0400, Richard A. Smith wrote: > Richard Hughes wrote: > > > Sure. There's lots of crazy ideas like the self-battery-profiling code > > that is being used in g-p-m trunk that may be of interest to you guys. > > See my blog posts [2] for some of the discussion. The profiling code in > > particular is *stonkingly* good at profiling old and broken batteries > > discharge and charge rates and giving an accurate time to charge and > > discharge. > > Ruh? /me ears perk up. Tell me a bit more about this profiling code can > it run standalone with out g-p-m?
It basically self profiles the charge and discharge cycles, and is exponentially weighted to increase in in accuracy over time. The time between percentage points is logged, and the integral taken in either direction to get the times. I must admit I've not thought of turning this feature into a library, although I could do - some of the code is linked pretty hard to g-p-m due to stuff like multiple battery sources and deciding how to assign accuracy (and thus weighting) to data points. I'm ignoring data points that are taken while the load is too high, or when the backlight is dimmed or off. This means it takes about 4 or 5 discharge-charge cycles to get really accurate. The code is mostly in src/gpm-profile.c in gnome-power-manager SVN trunk, although I've not coded the multiple-battery support yet. For my new lenovo laptop (only exports percentage, no rate) the discharge time is perfectly linear over 2 hours for charge and discharge. For my toshiba laptop (one broken cell in the battery) it still is linear as the profile takes into account the *really* non-linear discharge and is way more accurate than the "smart" cmos battery chip. See some cool screenshots: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/gpm-charge-profile-ss.png http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/gpm-discharge-profile-ss.png And the coolest: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/gpm-tooltip-ss.png (also attached) The code is now switched on by default for gnome-power-manager, but is not optimised at all yet. Comments welcome. Richard.
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