It’s been days since my last post on Free Code Camp, but now I am back, I had lots of ongoing in last few months, was busy with the project, and few other college stuff, lest along I learnt a lot of new stuff and here I am to share with you a quite intersting stuff on how to prevent overcharging and undercharging of your linux box. Though I have kept it simple it’s just a notification system right now but I am thinking of improving it to disable charging after certain percentage level.
The notification system in Ubuntu based distro is quite simple just a command notify-send man page its quite playful like you could write any script in shell, python, c or c# and make it work or no need of that, just you can say hello world by scribling on terminal notify-send "hello world" and a notification will pop on the desktop.
So here is the script that I wrote, which notifies the user that the charing is above 90% and below 30%, for the script to work correctly you must install acpi through
sudo apt-get install acpi
Now for the system to run this contineously one can write a corn tab or just begin a proceess at the startup, in starup application. But if one doesnot have startup application utility create a new file in ~/.config/autostart/ named as batterynotify.desktop and add the below lines
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
GenericName=batterynotify
Categories=
Exec=/usr/local/bin/batterynotify.sh
Icon=
Name=batterynotify
Comment=
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
here Exec field gives the path for batterynotify.sh file. Note the above file batterynotify.desktop after creation should be an executable.