Re: battery.el broken?

[T.V Raman]

yes, looks like some upower dbus  bug; separatley, for the longest
time the dbus api has been reporting AC power connect/disconnect
*much* after the event.
It's pretty broken, and not Emacs' fault.

the upower commandline utility gives the right value by the way

Basil L. Contovounesios writes:
 > "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
 > 
 > > I am mostly convinced this is a dbus/upower bug since I too checked and
 > > nothing has changed on the Emacs side  on the machine, still running
 > > Emacs from Github@HEAD.
 > >
 > > Will now try some of the other status functions, I think the output
 > > stopped telling me time left likely a couple of days ago.
 > >
 > > Typing this with the machine fully charged and not plugged into the AC
 > > jack, but the upower output shown below appears to think it's on AC
 > > Power.
 > >
 > > battery-status-function == battery-upower
 > >
 > > (mapcar #'battery--upower-device-properties
 > > (battery--upower-devices)
 > > )
 > >
 > > ((("NativePath" . "AC") ("Vendor" . "") ("Model" . "") ("Serial" . "")
 > > ("UpdateTime" . 1622943939) ("Type" . 1) ("PowerSupply" . t) ("HasHistory")
 > > ("HasStatistics") ("Online") ("Energy" . 0.0) ("EnergyEmpty" . 0.0) ...)
 > > (("NativePath" . "BAT0") ("Vendor" . "SMP") ("Model" . "01AV431") ("Serial"
 > > . "5195") ("UpdateTime" . 1622944181) ("Type" . 2) ("PowerSupply" . t)
 > > ("HasHistory" . t) ("HasStatistics" . t) ("Online") ("Energy" . 51.36)
 > > ("EnergyEmpty" . 0.0) ...) (("NativePath" . "ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:001")
 > > ("Vendor" . "") ("Model" . "") ("Serial" . "") ("UpdateTime" . 1622943939)
 > > ("Type" . 1) ("PowerSupply" . t) ("HasHistory") ("HasStatistics") 
 > > ("Online" . t)
 > > ("Energy" . 0.0) ("EnergyEmpty" . 0.0) ...) (("NativePath"
 > > . "ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:002") ("Vendor" . "") ("Model" . "") ("Serial" 
 > > . "")
 > > ("UpdateTime" . 1622943940) ("Type" . 1) ("PowerSupply" . t) ("HasHistory")
 > > ("HasStatistics") ("Online") ("Energy" . 0.0) ("EnergyEmpty" . 0.0) ...))
 > 
 > Hm, did you always have those ucsi-source-psy entries?  Searching for
 > them online led me to the following relatively recent discussions on
 > USB-C power sources, UPower, and Linux:
 > 
 > https://forum.manjaro.org/t/upowerd-not-recognising-usb-c-path-charger-is-usb-c
 > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/issues/126
 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upower/+bug/1891799
 > 
 > In particular I notice that the first of the two ucsi-source-psy entries
 > says ("Online" . t), which seems contradictory and is probably what
 > throws battery-upower off.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Basil

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮