##POWER_MON

A Simple Battery Warning System

###Summary

power_mon is a self contained application that checks the battery status and if charged or low will pop up a small X window. The only dependency is the X11 lib.

###Usage

power_mon doesn't continually poll the battery status. It runs once to check the status, if the battery is below MIN_PERCENT or charged it pops up a small window (click anywhere in the window to close it), then exits. I have cron run power_mon every five minutes which seems to work fine.

$ crontab -e

and add

*/5 * * * * export DISPLAY=:0 /path/to/power_mon

###Installation

Need Xlib, then:

Edit the power_mon.c file to point to the relevant file in
/sys/class/power_supply.
Check the three searched terms are relevant or edit to suit.

e.g.

  * #define SYS_FILE "/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/uevent"
  * #define MIN_PERCENT 34
  * #define SEARCHTERM1 "POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS"
  * #define SEARCHTERM2 "POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL="
  * #define SEARCHTERM3 "POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_NOW="

$ make
# make install
$ make clean

###Bugs

[ * No bugs for the moment ;) (I mean, no importants bugs ;)]

###Todo

• I'll think of something