batmon

batmon

Basic Golang program to monitor battery charge level

batmon is a basic utility designed to be in the background of a system to monitor its battery level. Only Linux is supported.

Installation

The following requires at least version 1.16 of the Go SDK installed, and to have GOPATH on your PATH.

go install github.com/codemicro/batmon@latest

Usage

Start at startup, for example with cron:

@reboot /home/akp/go/bin/batmon

Note that batmon is blocking.

Battery information

Battery capacity is retrieved from /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity by default. This can be changed in the batteryPath constant in main.go.