batman
Keep your laptop battery healthy with batman!
About
batman
is a command-line application for monitoring your battery charging status.
Usage
Use the command batman start min max
to start monitoring. (Make it part of the startup applications of your OS for convenience)
When your laptop battery is discharging and reaches min
, batman
will warn you to plug in the battery charger. When your laptop is charging and reaches max
, batman
will warn you to stop charging.
In this way, batman
helps you save battery charging cycles, thus prolonging battery life.
Sensible values for min
and max
are, for instance, 20
and 90
.
Use the command batman stop
to stop the program.
Installation
Build batman from source with go build
, e.g.: go build -o batman main.go
, defining your OS and architecture in environment variables GOOS
and GOARCH
.
For more details and inspiration, see the Bash script build
in this repo.