Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[dmillerct]

battery is on there... however is there another variable i need enter if i have a 12 cell battery? reason being is that my battery reading is still showing full even though it is indeed discharging... currently at 82.7 my time till dead line isn't working either

Post the output of acpi please.

You may need a switch like ${battery BAT1}

[miegiel]

is there a script i can use or a variable that will tell me how much charge time i have on my battery?

Just supplementing dmillerct's answers

For info you can't get with the conky commands you can also cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state (and while you're at it, try cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info too).

user@machine:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state 
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          charged
present rate:            0 mA
remaining capacity:      4417 mAh
present voltage:         12365 mV

For example (again your battery might not be BATT0):

 ${execi 60 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | grep capacity: | awk '{print $3 $4}'}

gives 4417 mAh (for me ofc )

my .conkyrc.batt :

#minimum_size 1366 768
#maximum_width 1366
gap_x 0
gap_y 2
alignment tr
update_interval 15.0
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
uppercase no
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_colour black
double_buffer yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Radio Space Bold:size=10
default_color 333333

TEXT
${if_match "$battery" != "not present"}${battery_percent}% ${if_match "${execi 60 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | grep charged | awk '{print $3}'}" != "charged"} ${execi 60 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | grep capacity: | awk '{print $3 $4}'}  ${execi 60 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | grep rate: | awk '{print $3 $4}'}  ${battery_time}${else}Battery Charged${endif}${else}No Battery Present${endif}

[dmillerct]

Just supplementing dmillerct's answers

For info you can't get with the conky commands you can also cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state (and while you're at it, try cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info too).

user@machine:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state 
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          charged
present rate:            0 mA
remaining capacity:      4417 mAh
present voltage:         12365 mV

For example (again your battery might not be BATT0):

 ${execi 60 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | grep capacity: | awk '{print $3 $4}'}

gives 4417 mAh (for me ofc )

my .conkyrc.batt :

#minimum_size 1366 768
#maximum_width 1366
gap_x 0
gap_y 2
alignment tr
update_interval 15.0
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
uppercase no
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_colour black
double_buffer yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Radio Space Bold:size=10
default_color 333333

TEXT
${if_match "$battery" != "not present"}${battery_percent}% ${if_match "${execi 60 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | grep charged | awk '{print $3}'}" != "charged"} ${execi 60 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | grep capacity: | awk '{print $3 $4}'}  ${execi 60 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | grep rate: | awk '{print $3 $4}'}  ${battery_time}${else}Battery Charged${endif}${else}No Battery Present${endif}

Thanks man. For the life of me I couldn't remember the directory for the battery state.

[miegiel]

Thanks man. For the life of me I couldn't remember the directory for the battery state.

You're welcome always happy to share.

[Diabolis]

[PatrickMoore]

you guys rock

my acpi is as follows
Battery 0: Charging, 13%, charging at zero rate - will never fully charge.

[djyoung4]

nicely done

[Cammy]

OK, someone help me out here. I'm looking at Crinos's ring script, and I'm running 1.7.2 on the laptop, but I can't work out how to tie the ring script into the conky. Do you just use it as the config file using the -c switch?

[dmillerct]

OK, someone help me out here. I'm looking at Crinos's ring script, and I'm running 1.7.2 on the laptop, but I can't work out how to tie the ring script into the conky. Do you just use it as the config file using the -c switch?

Add the following above TEXT in your config:

lua_load ~/Conky/Scripts/rings.lua

Change path / filename blah blah blah

[Cammy]

Add the following above TEXT in your config:

lua_load ~/Conky/Scripts/rings.lua

Change path / filename blah blah blah

Thanks, that worked. Well sort of. The conky runs, but no rings. I get the following error:

Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_ring_stats execution failed: attempt to call a nil value

Seems like I'm missing a step.