Running on battery

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Hi All

when performing using my laptop, always run the laptop connected to the mains. I am however dreading to not notice in time that the power for the laptop is not connected.

so my question is is there a way to detect if a laptop is runnning on battery or is connected to mains? I have been looking a bit in the system, windows and device categories but have not found a way to see if I am running on mains or not.

is there such a node?

I mean it would be pretty useful to change the color of the patch background to red in case of running on battery and green if plugged into mains.

Sune

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i took this problem as a neat little excercise for my sketchy c# skills…

a plugin, especially for you, sunep :)

outputs battery state in percentage and PowerMode (Main or Battery)

PowerState.dll (20.5 kB)

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WOW! Thanks U7:)

I will test immediately

Sune

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Brilliant :)

it seems to work well. now seeing it when I run my battery flat :)

thanks again

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I will encourage you to include it in the addon pack

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a well…that’s what i’m trying right now…no info about uploading to the repo. i’m going to ask mr.joreg

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ok is uploaded to the repository, might be part of the next addon pack

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brilliant.

what a great way to start the weekend!

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did some cleanup of the files and added a build file.

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that’s nice but renaming the powerstate.cs file makes the solution missing a reference. what’s the point ?

added PowerMessages, tells you about

Charging
Critical (The battery level is below the critical level specified in the user’s preferences.)
High
Low
NoSystemBattery
Unknown

PowerState.dll (20.5 kB)

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the solution and the project are updated aswell. i renamed the .cs file, because the c# code convention likes it, when the file has the same name as the class declared in it…

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I made a quick help file for it.

PowerState (Windows 0.1) help.v4p (7.0 kB)

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nice plug. another nice one for performance situations would be CPU/GPU temp monitor so some preventative action can be taken if things look like their getting a little hot down at the club.

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interesting … but quick googling tells there isn’t a standard interface to get these values from all the different mainboards. windows can give you cpu temp (doesn’t always work) but gpu temp is not implemented…yet ?

anyway, if something gets too hot, you will notice instantly ;)