Acustic 'empty battery warning' ?

Lothar Behrens lothar.behrens at lollisoft.de
Thu Dec 18 08:54:19 CET 2008


It's only an idea. Indeed I currently have ASU 2008/9.

Lothar

Am 18.12.2008 um 01:10 schrieb W.Kenworthy:

> What distro? - clock doesnt work on 2008.9 through to the current
> testing.
>
> BillK
>
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> 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.
>>
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>> It even wakes up, or boots, if I have shut down the phone :-)
>>
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>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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