Current git version of upower and upcoming kdelibs 4.10.2 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317400) will be able to provide battery information through solid for Logitech wireless devices (mouse, keyboard, trackball). Unfortunately battery applet is not capable of displaying status for non-regular batteries. It only shows battery status for main laptop batteries. This is feature request about adding such support. Suggestions about implementation: For example in one of my laptop with external wireless keyboard and mouse connected I would expect three battery icons by default (one for laptop battery, one for keyboard and one for mouse). "Show the state for each battery present" should work for laptop batteries only since aggregating mouse/keyboard batteries with main laptop battery makes little sense. Reproducible: Always
Working on it :-)
Git commit 6fea11b80b78c6b734f04043a8565a5a1e9154c3 Committed on 16/05/2013 at 15:51. Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'. Improve Battery Monitor with multiple batteries: - Show Battery Name, if available, instead of just Battery 1, Battery 2, - Don't add non-power-supply batteries to the overall percentage - Drop "Show battery status for each battery", it is now always on, given that in systray it only shows one icon anyway and now does that right, and if there's a mouse you wouldn't want it to be not shown, so it would show them anyway which is a contradiction to the setting REVIEW: 110431 http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kde-workspace.git&a=commit&h=6fea11b80b78c6b734f04043a8565a5a1e9154c3
Applied the patch to 4.10.3 and unfortunately I'm seeing only main notebook battery icon. No icon for the mouse battery. "solid-hardware details" sees it $ solid-hardware details '/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/mouse_0003o046DoC52Bx0004' udi = '/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/mouse_0003o046DoC52Bx0004' parent = '/org/freedesktop/UPower' (string) vendor = 'Logitech, Inc.' (string) product = 'M570' (string) description = 'Unknown Battery' (string) Battery.plugged = true (bool) Battery.type = 'MouseBattery' (0x4) (enum) Battery.chargePercent = 35 (0x23) (int) Battery.rechargeable = true (bool) Battery.chargeState = 'Discharging' (0x2) (enum) Is some additional change needed?
Another issue is that main battery icon shows "0%" while on popup shows correctly "Battery: 100%".
In the tray there will always be only one icon. When placed on the desktop it will show an icon per battery. Can you run plasmaengineexplorer (you probably need to install plasmate first) and go to the power management engine and look if the battery is present there and listed with correct values? Thanks for helping!
Oh, I forgot, that patch also requires two other patches: http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commit&h=b86adffd69a972f612e0fb00f8c4e8154142c730 So Solid knows about the power supply state And http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kde-workspace.git&a=commit&h=921d6822b7451c993237db2bc6c76b851d7d7dc6 Which tells it to the power management dataengine. Sorry, could you try again? :-)
Created attachment 79977 [details] power management view Now "100%" test is correctly displayed on taskbar icon. Popup also shows correct value and name of the battery (model only, without vendor name so "42T4678" in my case. vendor + model would be nicer like "Panasonic 42T4678"). Unfortunately no mouse battery icon even when battery widget added to desktop. plasmaengineexplorer screenshot attached. Why no mouse icon on taskbar? I don't even need to see it all time but only when low on battery. So by default I see main battery icon + other devices icons appear when these are low on battery.
Thanks for your feedback! Not showing the vendor name is intended. Frankly, I only tested with an Apple Magic Mouse which can have a custom name set and so I didn't consider the vendor name needed. But seems we do need it. Weird, the battery doesnt show up in the engine explorer, so it is not shown in the battery monitor. Can you post the output of upower -d so I can see what upower reports.
[arekm@t400 ~]$ upower -d Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_AC native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:00/PNP0C09:00/ACPI0003:00/power_supply/AC power supply: yes updated: Mon May 20 18:15:27 2013 (2816 seconds ago) has history: no has statistics: no line-power online: yes Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/mouse_0003o046DoC52Bx0004 native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.2/0003:046D:C52B.0003/0003:046D:C52B.0004 vendor: Logitech, Inc. model: M570 power supply: no updated: Mon May 20 19:02:02 2013 (21 seconds ago) has history: yes has statistics: no mouse present: yes rechargeable: yes state: discharging percentage: 45% Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:00/PNP0C09:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT0 vendor: Panasonic model: 42T4678 serial: 1325 power supply: yes updated: Mon May 20 19:02:01 2013 (22 seconds ago) has history: yes has statistics: yes battery present: yes rechargeable: yes state: fully-charged energy: 43.79 Wh energy-empty: 0 Wh energy-full: 44.76 Wh energy-full-design: 56.16 Wh energy-rate: 8.919 W voltage: 12.432 V percentage: 97.8329% capacity: 79.7009% technology: lithium-ion Daemon: daemon-version: 0.9.20 can-suspend: no can-hibernate: no on-battery: no on-low-battery: no lid-is-closed: no lid-is-present: yes is-docked: no [arekm@t400 ~]$
If you are good at Inkscape a suitable system tray icon for peripheral status would be welcome ;-) Btw Logitech M570 is the trackball, right? I too have it but how did you manage to have it report its battery status? It doesnt here. Would really make my work easier.
I'm far from even being inskcape newbie ;) Yes, trackball. Use upower from upstream git or apply this patch http://git.pld-linux.org/gitweb.cgi?p=packages/upower.git;a=blob_plain;f=upower-fixes.patch;hb=HEAD btw. arekm@freenode
Git commit 7087214d5e88fc853d0fcd6ca19a0d0f01d81abe by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 20/05/2013 at 20:52. Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'. Consider All The Batteries [tm] M +20 -23 plasma/generic/dataengines/powermanagement/powermanagementengine.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/7087214d5e88fc853d0fcd6ca19a0d0f01d81abe
Git commit a8e3b397507d38bf936ad573f3b90c6dbd0fed5a by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 20/05/2013 at 20:59. Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'. Show Battery Vendor if available M +12 -5 plasma/generic/dataengines/powermanagement/powermanagementengine.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/a8e3b397507d38bf936ad573f3b90c6dbd0fed5a
Created attachment 79981 [details] to narrow Works now, thanks! Should I file a separate bug for displaying icon(s) in low-battery mode for non primary batteries? One tiny issue. When mouse is on top of applet the information screen appears (see screenshot) which is too narrow. Probably can be fixed to newer go into 2-text lines info for single battery (see screenshot).
Yes, please, so I don't forget (and so that you can clarify in more detail what you mean), and assign it to me then. Now that my Logitech trackball is properly recognized I can give it a lot more testing and UX polishing. Haven't looked in the desktop case (non-power-supply batteries only) at all yet. About the tooltip: I guess that's a plasma bug, where it tries to find a suitable size for the tooltip and fails. It's just a dumb string listing all the batteries separated by <br>, maybe I can workaround using <pre> tag and/or (ie. non-breaking-space).
Git commit 175e902b88a2c6a1c1ca37f428208e83c1660937 by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 20/05/2013 at 21:52. Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'. No linebreak in tooltip. We do them manually anyways. M +1 -1 plasma/generic/applets/batterymonitor/contents/code/logic.js http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/175e902b88a2c6a1c1ca37f428208e83c1660937
Added - #320064. Unfortunately bugzilla won't allow me to assign it to you.
There seem to be another issue. Battery applet doesn't notice that new battery is "connected" or "disconnected". plasma engine explorer sees that correctly but not applet. How to reproduce: - disconnect mouse - look at applet, it still shows battery info - remove battery applet - add battery applet again (now it doesn't show mouse battery correctly) - connect mouse - battery applet doesn't see new battery - remove && add applet - new battery is seen again
Git commit 2fd181ef31382e071126ea2a401506d3b1aaa4af by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 21/05/2013 at 10:43. Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'. Consider All The Batteries[tm] When a new device was added, it wasn't added to the dataengine right away M +1 -2 plasma/generic/dataengines/powermanagement/powermanagementengine.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/2fd181ef31382e071126ea2a401506d3b1aaa4af
Now removal of mouse was noticed immediately but plugging it back in didn't result with battery applet displaying info for mouse battery. plasma engine explorer sees it correctly.
Should I open separate bug for this (comment #20), too? Running this for few days and applet didn't notice new battery for all that time.