Battery-Monitor

What if you had some data to help understand what usage patterns are limiting your battery life?

battery.sh

Display current battery status
Logs current status into a csv
Create Usage Charts from the csv

Terminal Output

Battery Percent:   96.66% (10832 mAh / 11206 mAh)
Battery Time:      4:13 (253 mins)
Battery Health:    Normal (865 Charges)
Battery Status:    Draining (20.8 watts)
Wifi:              On (Connected)
Display:           63%
Ram Free:          35.18% (2882 / 8192)
CPU Free:          86.82% (10.73, 2.43) 9.10, 4.24, 2.14

Supported environments

Mac 10.7.x
Ubuntu 12.04

Usage

open a terminal window and change directories to the folder that contains battery.sh

cd /you/path/to/folder

Check on the battery status once

./battery.sh

Check on the battery status once return JSON array

./battery.sh JSON

A battery status logger that repeats itself every 15 seconds

./battery.sh simple

Universal stress test not working yet

./battery.sh stress

You probably want to do this at a time when you won't be using your laptop

A test of how long your battery would last a minimum by:

Create process to use 100% of the CPU
Brightens the screen to 100%
Max out Disk IO
write and delete 100mb file over and over
Download realy
10mb file to /dev/null (wont effect hd space)
Max out Ram buy filling it / emptying it

Incase you forget

./battery.sh help

Data Output

log/(YYYYMMDD).CSV stores:

Date Nice, Epoch, Batt Cycle, Batt remaining %, Batt Charge remaining, Batt Time mins, Batt Time HH:MM, Batt AmperageMA, POWER, Batt Health, Batt Charge capacity, Batt Status, Ram Total, Ram Free, Ram Used, Ram % Free, Batt Warn Status, Cpu Load 1 min, Cpu Load 5 min, Cpu Load 15 min, Cpu % Free, Cpu % Used User, Cpu % Used Sys, Wifi Status, Wifi Connected, Ping, Display Brightnes %, executed in

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