Making a low battery Alert

Chamarez · December 30, 2021, 7:23pm

Hello, i am new in bspwm and i using in a notebook.
I love this desktop enviorment,
but i have de battery icon in polybar, now how can i make an alert that notify me that battery is low or is full?.
Thanks,

rhz · December 30, 2021, 8:01pm

Hi. Does the notify-send command work on bspwm?

Chamarez · December 30, 2021, 9:02pm

yes, works

joekamprad · December 30, 2021, 10:41pm

github.com

EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/bspwm/blob/main/.config/bspwm/scripts/low_bat_notifier.sh

#!/bin/bash

### VARIABLES

POLL_INTERVAL=120    # seconds at which to check battery level
LOW_BAT=33           # lesser than this is considered low battery

# If BAT0 doesn't work for you, check available devices with command below
#
#   $ ls -1 /sys/class/power_supply/
#
BAT_PATH=/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0
BAT_STAT=$BAT_PATH/status

if [[ -f $BAT_PATH/charge_full ]]
then
    BAT_FULL=$BAT_PATH/charge_full
    BAT_NOW=$BAT_PATH/charge_now
elif [[ -f $BAT_PATH/energy_full ]]
then

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rhz · December 31, 2021, 7:34am

Then you might want to have a look at https://github.com/rhz/sd-battery-notification. It’s a systemd timer that checks the battery charge every minute and notifies the user when the battery is too low or too high. By default, it notifies when the battery is below 40% or over 80%.

s4ndm4n · December 31, 2021, 8:06am

There is a script for that bundled with BSPWM the one @joekamprad linked.

Chamarez · January 4, 2022, 2:16pm

I have a problem with this script

Chamarez · January 4, 2022, 2:42pm

Thk a lot, this works, i only had to install bc with paru.
Thks is resolved

Root · January 5, 2022, 1:02pm

I didn’t realize there was a script in the repo for such monitoring.

system · January 7, 2022, 1:02pm

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