aspire v3-575-50td i3 no battery

[rev-matthewagilmore]

This happens every time I do a clean install on this laptop. and for some reason I cant find what made it work the last time.
I do remember it being the path that makes it work

this is the i3status.config file




# i3status configuration file.
# see "man i3status" for documentation.

# It is important that this file is edited as UTF-8.
# The following line should contain a sharp s:
# ß
# If the above line is not correctly displayed, fix your editor first!

general {
colors = true
interval = 5
}
order += "wireless _first_"
order += "tztime local"
order += "load"
#order += "ipv6"
order += "disk /"
order += "run_watch DHCP"
order += "run_watch VPN"

order += "ethernet _first_"
order += "battery 1"



wireless _first_ {
format_up = "W: (%quality at %essid) %ip"
format_down = "W: down"
}

ethernet _first_ {
# if you use %speed, i3status requires root privileges
format_up = "E: %ip (%speed)"
format_down = "E: down"
}
#battery 0 is default
#battery 0 {
# format = "%status %percentage %remaining"
#}

battery 1 {
format = "%status %percentage %remaining"
path = "/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1"
}


run_watch DHCP {
pidfile = "/var/run/dhclient*.pid"
}

run_watch VPN {
pidfile = "/var/run/vpnc/pid"
}

tztime local {
format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
}

load {
format = "%1min"
}

disk "/" {
format = "%avail"
}



before you ask , i did try changing the path to /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1
I ran upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1

this is what popped up


native-path: BAT1
vendor: SANYO
model: AL15A32
serial: 58874
power supply: yes
updated: Wed 19 Oct 2016 08:57:45 PM CDT (80 seconds ago)
has history: yes
has statistics: yes
battery
present: yes
rechargeable: yes
state: discharging
warning-level: none
energy: 19.9504 Wh
energy-empty: 0 Wh
energy-full: 33.6404 Wh
energy-full-design: 37 Wh
energy-rate: 11.4404 W
voltage: 15.856 V
time to empty: 1.7 hours
percentage: 59%
capacity: 90.92%
technology: lithium-ion
icon-name: 'battery-good-symbolic'
History (charge):
1476928664 59.000 discharging
History (rate):
1476928665 11.440 discharging
1476928664 17.686 discharging

[rev-matthewagilmore]

I found the right file path


path = "/sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/uevent"

to find it i just looked around int the /sys/class/power_supply moving my way up till i found uevent

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