So it looks from your links that I should use "/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/" for the URL on Unix, and check for "charging" or "discharging" as the first word??
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Mar 2, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Peter Brigham wrote: > > > What gets returned in > > get URL "/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state" on Unix? > > If you give me a sample to work with I will finish the handler and > > post it. > > Further reading shows that path deprecated on many modern systems, suggesting > the /sys path instead: > > /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/ > > <https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2013/01/02/debian-how-to-monitor-battery-capacity/> > > Of the elements found at that path "status" seems the most relevant, but at > the moment I'm on a desktop workstation and my Linux laptop is at home so I > can't check it right now. > > The key question for the moment is whether BAT0 or BAT1 is used by folks > here. Oddly enough when I was using /proc I had no BAT0 but I did find the > info in BAT1. > > Perhaps my Dell model thinks it can support multiple batteries (maybe > counting the onboard clock battery? Seems unlikely). > > Once we discover the battery numbering scheme, parsing the byte stream at > that location will be trivial. > > In fact, the articles I've found suggest that when that status element is > present it contains just a single word, such as "charging" or "discharging", > shown in the example here: > <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133716> > > I'll see if I can get some time to look into this further this evening. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
