[ltp] battery balancing on T430s?

alfon linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 3 Dec 2012 14:42:20 +0100


No, for now, only works if the battery is under /sys/device, /proc or
another filesystem... sorry.

On 3 December 2012 13:49, Tamas Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks.  Does this support selecting which battery to discharge on the
> TP T430s?  How?  I can see that it can monitor the batteries, but for me
> the problem is not monitoring but controlling the battery discharge.
>
> The problem is that tp_smapi does not support this laptop yet, so there
> is no /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/force_discharge etc.
>
> On Mon, Dec 03 2012, alfon <alfon.gz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> you may take a look at this: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/battwd.
>> It can works with several batteries (the only bad is that, at the
>> moment, it's alpha code).
>>
>> On 27 November 2012 13:31, Tamas Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a T430s with an ultrabay battery, which is discharged before the
>>> main one.  I was hoping I could balance the discharge between batteries
>>> --- I found http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code/tp-bat-balance but
>>> it needs tp_smapi which is not supported on this machine (AFAIK).
>>>
>>> Is there a way to balance battery discharging on this model?  I would
>>> also be happy if I could manually select which battery is discharged.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Tamas
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