Tools for checking ACPI battery data
Conclusions
Four tools, Upower, Acpi, Acpitool, and Ibam let you keep track of your laptop's battery health state using the ACPI power management framework. Experience shows that Acpi and Upower, in particular, deliver precise, reliable values.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Werner Heuser, Arne Wichmann, and Justin Kelly for their appraisal and suggestions in the course of writing this article.
Infos
- Linux ACPI project: https://01.org/linux-acpi
- Acpi.info: http://www.acpi.info
- Heuser, Werner. "Power Management on Linux Laptops and Notebooks – APM, ACPI, PMU": http://tuxmobil.org/apm_linux.html
- Hogbin, Emma Jane. "ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface": http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/
- UEFI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
- Proc filesystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs
- ACPI tips: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_ACPI_work
- Upower: https://upower.freedesktop.org
- Acpiclient: https://sourceforge.net/projects/acpiclient/
- Acpitool: https://sourceforge.net/projects/acpitool/
- Ibam: http://ibam.sourceforge.net
- Gnuplot: http://www.gnuplot.info
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