battery-eye 0.5.0-5
Battery charge logging and graphical visualization for Maemo5/N900.
battery-eye is a small app, that records battery data (percentage, current,
voltage, charger status) continuously in background, and creates a graph
to visualize how the values change over time. It also calculates statistics
on average battery usage, and battery life estimates based on that.
The data collection process is designed for minimal impact on system
performance and battery life.
Section:
user/utilities
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19612 bytes
MD5sum:
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Status:
Old version cleaned by repository management
Bugtracker:
QA Quarantine ends:
ENDED 2010-02-17 19:15
| Tester | Karma | Timestamp |
| Sauli Eriksson (6) | 2010-03-09 10:06 UTC | |
| Alex Easter (Tester) (353) | 2010-03-08 09:42 UTC | |
| Emanuele Cassioli (Tester) (986) | 2010-03-08 09:23 UTC | |
| Rainer Dorsch (195) | 2010-03-07 21:42 UTC | |
| Valério Valério (Tester) (1434) | 2010-03-07 15:52 UTC | |
| Greg Roberts (472) | 2010-03-06 09:33 UTC | |
| Nicolai Hess (1184) | 2010-03-05 22:52 UTC | |
| Faheem Pervez (2151) | 2010-02-27 17:29 UTC | |
| Timo P (Tester) (831) | 2010-02-26 07:37 UTC | |
| Nelson Ferreira (62) | 2010-02-23 10:23 UTC | |
| David B (127) | 2010-02-23 09:11 UTC | |
| Ndi Ndi (429) | 2010-02-21 21:15 UTC | |
| Andy Dunmore (249) | 2010-02-21 07:10 UTC | |
| Justin Quek (184) | 2010-02-21 05:34 UTC | |
| Ahto Nukki (109) | 2010-02-19 18:15 UTC | |
| aki salo (8) | 2010-02-17 06:35 UTC | |
| Dawid Lorenz (312) | 2010-02-14 20:50 UTC | |
| Martin Grimme (1317) | 2010-02-14 16:10 UTC | |
| Mikko Lyly (7) | 2010-02-13 08:39 UTC | |
| Faz Z (107) | 2010-02-12 22:06 UTC | |
| Alan Howard (176) | 2010-02-11 13:40 UTC | |
| Henrique Carrega (6) | 2010-02-09 01:18 UTC | |
| Mikko Vartiainen (Tester) (2221) | 2010-02-08 23:20 UTC | |
| Claudius Henrichs (139) | 2010-02-08 20:38 UTC | |
| Venomrush . (Tester) (721) | 2010-02-08 00:14 UTC |
Package events
| Event type | User | Timestamp |
| Old version cleaned by repository management | System | 2010-04-07 12:55 UTC |
| Package is in testing | System | 2010-02-07 19:15 UTC |

Comments:
I appreciate the app - it makes nice graphs which could be useful for profiling power usage.
Unfortunately it increases my offline idle current draw from 2-3mA to 13-14mA. (measured with bq27220.sh from http://www.mauve.plus.com/bat.tar.gz)
Thanks to everyone for testing, votes and comments!
Version 0.5.0 won't be promoted to extras, as it has known quality issues.
I will upload a new version within some days, it will be in extras-testing as soon as I'm fairly confident it doesn't blow up anything. The bugtracker link will also be finally fixed by then ;-)
Michael, your problem is a strange one. As far as I can tell, python-dbus package should include the necessary python module. You were trying to run the daemon manually on the device, right? (In Scratchbox you will have to run it with 'run-standalone.sh python2.5 /opt/battery-eye/beyed.py', and it won't be recording anything since BME isn't there to update the HAL info.)
This might be a stupid question but is there a limit for the shown time-frame? If not I would assume that loading this application (including the loooooooooong graph) will take to much time.
Is there a way to test this without jump to the future? :)
why are you giving thumbs up? this won't go to extras before the bugtracker link is ok.
bugtracker link broken
Daemon dies silently after install. App fails to launch - no error message. So I ran '/opt/battery-eye/beyed.py' manually, get "ImportError: No module named dbus".
Is this a missing dependency in the .deb file? python-dbus is installed. What is the proper way to start the daemon?
Agreed, it occasionally "stops working". It can be restarted by "rootsh start battery-eye-daemon" from the terminal.
It stopped working after one day. The timeline continues but there's no graph drawn anymore. Rebooting doesn't fix this.
Love it! Many thanks Jussi! :)
Seems to work fine but could definitely benefit from some extra functionality, being able to dump the collected data into a text file for instance.
debian/control has
so broken link is your fault :) or broken packaging tools because this one seems to made with py2deb or something else which have never produced "good" packages.
You know what? Auto refresh is not so important, better to keep battery using low instead. Thanks for your answer.
Emanuele, thank you for your feedback.
It seems that the bugtracker link is for some reason prepended by with the .deb control file field name in the packages interface. I'm not sure if it's my fault, it seems that there are also other affected packages. (for example, this: http://maemo.org/packages/view/comic-widget/ )
The correct tracker address for battery-eye is: https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/?group_id=1292
I will try to find out if this can be fixed.
As for your other feature requests, I'm trying to figure out the best way for doing the automatic refresh without wasting resources. Time scale changing will be in next version, it's already implemented and working. ;-)
Bugtracker link not working
App can't refresh by itself if left in background
User should be able to change time scale
Nice app, good job
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