lowbatt

Automatically get notified at set battery level thresholds using a systemd timer.

Installation

Dependencies

• systemd - for timer/service, loginctl, and dbus
• libnotify - for notify-send
• make - for Makefile build

Build

sudo make install

Usage

Once installed, enable and start the systemd timer:

sudo systemctl enable --now lowbatt.timer

Configuration

lowbatt has 3 thresholds for discharging alerts:

• low_threshold - default: 30
• danger_threshold - default: 20
• critical_threshold - default: 10

These can be checked with the lowbatt get command.

If you would rather different thresholds for notifications, you can update these config values:

sudo lowbatt set low_threshold 20
sudo lowbatt set danger_threshold 10
sudo lowbatt set critical_threshold 5