Wholesaleeshop.com.au: How to get useful information about your Laptop’s battery health and status in Linux

Linux provides you with the proc filesystem which you can make use of to get some very useful information about the current status and health of your Laptop's battery.

Although there are many tools available which can do this thing for you but it is always better to get the info right from your system files. In this article we will tell how you can get useful information about your Laptop's batteryhealth and status in Linux.

Battery Health

Enter this command in the terminal:

cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info

You can then see useful information regarding your Dell inspiron 6400 battery Dell inspiron 9300 battery health as shown below. In the screen shot you will find entries for design acpacity and last full capacity. This generally gives you the so as to how well your battery gets charged.

Battery Status

You can also check the current state of your Dell latitude d630 battery using the following command:

cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state

Now you can se how long will the battery last and at what rate is it getting discharged. You can also see whether your laptop is connected to AC power or operating on battery.