can info be gotten from Power Consumption Display applet?

[Logansfury]

Hello everyone,

I have noted that the applet Power Consumption Display recognizes the state changing from charging to discharging and vice versa about 3-4 mins sooner than the default battery icon in systray.

Is there a way for conky to make use of PCD and query it for battery status?

thanks for reading

Logan

[oscar buzzby]

may have to tweek, not sure what you want.......

#battery on line or not
${voffset -15}${if_existing /sys/class/power_supply/AC/online 0}${color white}AC is${color red} off-line $battery
${else}
${if_existing /sys/class/power_supply/AC/online 1}${voffset -15}${color white}AC is${color green} on $battery
${color}${endif}${endif}

another piece
#battery how long charge
${voffset -35}${if_existing /sys/class/power_supply/AC/online 1}${color white}${color green}Untill Full charge ${battery_time BAT0}
${else}
${if_existing /sys/class/power_supply/AC/online 0}${voffset -15}${color white}Charge time remaining ${color red}${battery_time BAT0}
${color}${endif}${endif}

either BAT0 or BAT1

one more piece

#battery bar and percent
${if_match ${battery_percent}<30}${voffset -10}${color white}Bat ${color red} ${blink battery dying}
${else}
${if_match ${battery_percent}<80}${voffset -30}${color white}Bat ${color yellow}${battery_bar 10,200 BAT0}
${else}
${voffset -50}${if_match ${battery_percent}>=80}${color white}Bat ${color green}${battery_bar 10,200 BAT0}
${else}
${if_match "${battery_short}"<"D"}d ${color red}${battery_bar 10,130 BAT0}
${endif}${endif}${endif}${endif}${alignr}${voffset -20}${battery_percent BAT0}%

[Koentje]

...about 3-4 mins sooner...

Minutes??? When i plug the charger in my laptop i see almost immediate change! Within seconds..
I believe you already downloaded this conky, but you can try if it also is slow in state changes.

https://www.cobrasoft.nl/download/conky/laptop-battery