Acustic 'empty battery warning' ?

[W.Kenworthy]

What distro? - clock doesnt work on 2008.9 through to the current
testing.

BillK


On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:12 +0100, Lothar Behrens wrote:
> Hmm,
> 
> 
> using the clock to wake me up in the morning would be an option to
> check the
> battery.
> 
> 
> It even wakes up, or boots, if I have shut down the phone :-)
> 
> 
> If the clock is not at a really alarm time (to wake me up :-), 
> it could configure the next wakeup to check the battery.
> 
> 
> Is that a solution if PMU doesn't support us with another solution ?
> 
> 
> Lothar
> 
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> Am 17.12.2008 um 13:35 schrieb William Kenworthy:
> 
> > Doesnt it already do that - I know that in the middle of the night I
> > used to get regularly awakened by a "shfffft" sound from the Fr as
> > the
> > battery ran out - oh wait, you mean before ...
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > Its actually a good idea - I use a couple of perl scripts to flash
> > the
> > leds in various colours/rates to indicate charge.  Doesnt help when
> > shut
> > down though.  Perhaps a cron job to wake every hour and check the
> > charge, then go back to sleep?  Does cron work on the FR these days?
> > 
> > BillK
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:16 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> > > Lothar Behrens <lothar.behrens at lollisoft.de> writes:
> > > > Is there a way to do this ?
> > > 
> > > while true; do
> > >  if [ `capacity` -lt 10 ]; then
> > >      alert
> > >  fi
> > >  sleep 120
> > > done
> > > 
> > > > Is there also a way when the device is in suspend mode, to
> > > > wakeup and
> > > > do this warning ?
> > > 
> > > I'm guessing yes but I do not know the PMU stuff well.
> > > 
> > > 
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