Battery Monitor is a utility tool developed on Python3 and PyGtk3. It will notify user about charging, discharging, not charging and critically low battery state of the battery on Linux (Surely if battery is present).

• Dependencies
• Installation
  • Common Method
  • For Ubuntu and its derivatives
  • For Beta Testers
• Configuration
• Issue Tracking
• Screenshots
  • Initial State
  • Charging State
  • Discharging State
  • Not Charging State
  • Critically Low Battery State
• Roadmap
• Changelog
• Contributors

• python3
• python3-gi
• libnotify-dev
• acpi

To use Battery Monitor you need these dependencies installed on your PC.

wget https://github.com/maateen/battery-monitor/archive/master.zip

unzip master.zip

cd battery-monitor-master

sudo make install

That's all. Battery Monitor Stable is installed on your system.

Let's install from PPA (currently supported: 14.04, 16.04, 16.10 & 17.04):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maateen/battery-monitor -y

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install battery-monitor -y

That's all. Battery Monitor Stable is installed on your system.

wget https://github.com/maateen/battery-monitor/archive/devel.zip

unzip devel.zip

cd battery-monitor-devel

sudo make install

That's all. Battery Monitor Beta is installed on your system.

Every time, you will start/restart your PC, it will run automatically in background. But as it's your first time, let's start it by yourself. Please, search for Battery Monitor launcher in your menu entries. Then simply click on it. You will get notified that Battery Monitor has started.

If you want to adjust settings for Battery Monitor, then simply search for Battery Monitor GUI in your menu entries. Then click on it and you will see a new window. Now adjust your settings and save it. Your adjustment will be in action after next reboot.

If you find a bug, please open a new issue with details: https://github.com/maateen/battery-monitor/issues

Please take a look at our milestones to get clear idea about our roadmap. They are dynamic and they can change frequently on user requests.

• Fixed issue #35
• Fixed issue #39

• Developing a GUI to manage the custom warning easily.
• Minimizing CPU consumption.
• Adding Makefile for easy installation and upgradation
• Re-structuring the project
• Support for Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 16.10 and 17.04 has been added.

• Reformatting the code in a new style.
• Optimizing the code in a way so that Battery Monitor consumes a little resource of your PC.

• Fixed issue #7, decreasing CPU consuming from 40% to below 0.7%
• Fixed issue #4, Adding warning at 30% battery life (temporary solution, will be replaced by a GUI in near future)
• Fixed issue #6, Adding an entry in dash.

• Adding trusty support.

• Adding Critically Low Battery warning when battery is below 10%.
• Adding ctrl+C pressing support to stop the battery-monitor command on terminal.

• Initial release.

One of the biggest contributor of Battery Monitor. He has reformated the code in a new style. The style represents the code easier to understand. Also he has optimized the code in a way that Battery Monitor consumes a little resource of your PC. Please take a minute to thank him.

Another biggest contributor of Battery Monitor. He has fixed some bugs and optimized Battery Monitor in a way so that it consumes lower CPU and RAM than before. Please take a minute to thank him.