Bug 457893

Summary:	Respect upower's "should be ignored" tag when determining whether or not to notify about low battery
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	legimet <avelingker>
Component:	Power management & brightness	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cheekurudy, huulong, kde, natalie_clarius, nate, tomboshoven
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.2.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description legimet 2022-08-14 20:14:48 UTC

Every time I move my wireless mouse after leaving it unused for a few minutes, I get a notification that my mouse battery level is 10%. I get these notifications dozens of times a day, which is very annoying. The mouse can run for weeks/months on this low charge, and when it finally does run out, I can just pop in a new battery. So I would just like to disable mouse battery notifications altogether.

It seems that upower recognizes this, as "upower --dump" yields "percentage:          10% (should be ignored)" for the mouse in question.

Comment 1 legimet 2022-08-14 20:27:09 UTC

Actually, I just realized that there is an option to disable peripheral battery notifications. This solves my issue. However, maybe upower's "should be ignored" should be taken into account by default.

Comment 2 Tom Boshoven 2023-05-06 04:36:46 UTC

Confirming this issue with a Logitech Unifying Receiver.
Apparently if this shows up as "(should be ignored)" in upower, the number is invented and should not be used.
I'm not sure if there's a way to get a more reliable number out of upower as it stands. Perhaps the underlying reason this started happening is related to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/issues/166 .

Solaar shows the battery level of the mouse as 90% and upower shows it as "5% (should be ignored)".
Every time the mouse wakes up (when moved after a bit of inactivity), the popup appears.

Disabling the popup helps, but it's not easy to find the setting.

Comment 3 huulong 2024-02-18 20:44:15 UTC

It's now easier to access the battery notification settings, by clicking on the settings icon on the notification itself. Or, at any time, go to:

System Settings > Notifications > Application-specific settings > Configure… > Power Management > Configure Events… which opens the same window

then select Peripheral Battery Low and disable the Play a sound and Show a message in a popup

This has a few limitations though:
- cannot distinguish peripheral types
- cannot change the threshold. I don't have an issue with notifying me when my mouse battery gets under 1% so I can prepare and buy new batteries, but I cannot even do that!

I found a few other tutorials that change the percentage directly in config files... except I found out the values there were 5 or 20, not 10, so it cannot be the right value.

Comment 4 cheekurudy 2024-11-16 08:46:00 UTC

Same here, using a Logi M235 with unifying reciever. Fedora 41