#/bin/bash # battery-monitor.sh # Once a user defined minimum is reached, this program lets the user know # when the battery needs to be charged and suspends the computer. # This program has been verified to work on a Debian 12 GNU/Linux x86_64 # default console installation, but the installation of the bc program is # required. # Copyright (c) 2024, Scott C. MacCallum (scott@scm-guru.live). # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU Affero General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # To do. Add code to verify that the user is root or has run the script with # sudo. Add code to verify that the bc program is installed. # Change this variable to the group that should be informed of a need to # charge the battery. On GNU/Linux distributions users are often part of # a group that is the same as their login name, which works well if you only # want your user to be informed on the console. group="scm" # Change the battery variable to your batteries identification. battery="BAT0" # If the battery is fully charged. if (( minutes == 0 )); then exit 0 fi # Calculate the state of the battery. charge=$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/$battery/charge_now) discharge=$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/$battery/current_now) hours=$(echo "scale=2; $charge / $discharge" | bc -l) minutes=$(echo "scale=2; $hours * 60" | bc -l) # Change the minimum variable to the minimum amount of minutes that a battery # is estimated to have left before the group is informed to recharge it. When # I tested this, I was surprised to discover that the computer turned off # despite having reported that there was 10 minutes left! I created the # battery-status.sh script to aid in my understanding of what was going on, # and I discovered a variance of minutes plus/minus each time that I ran it, # so the system is clearly making an estimate. Keep this in mind when setting # the minimum value. # Change this variable to you liking, but less than 40.00 is likely a bad # idea. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! minimum=40.00 If the minutes of charge are less than the minimum. if (( $(echo "$minutes < $minimum" | bc -l) )); then echo "Suspending the computer! Battery charge is needed!" | wall -g $group sleep 3 systemctl suspend fi exit 0