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Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client
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Big Picture feature request: show Steam Controller battery level in overlay #4116

Open adolson opened 8 years ago

adolson commented 8 years ago

It would be handy to see battery level indicators in the Big Picture overlay, so we don't have to quit out of a game to see if the battery is getting low.

Hunk4TH commented 8 years ago

This would be a very nice feature! Just got the Steam controller and love it so far :) Thanks Valve!

Tele42 commented 8 years ago

It would be nice if there was a generic battery indicator comparable to the battery indicators in other desktop environments, so all sorts of batteries could be shown, not just the steam controller, particularly laptop batteries and bluetooth controllers.

Tele42 commented 8 years ago

For the kernel part of this HID_BATTERY_STRENGTH reads as "This option adds support of reporting battery strength (for HID devices that support this feature) through power_supply class so that userspace tools, such as upower, can display it." and is available as an option in brewmaster's kernel version.

schmaker commented 1 month ago

Just to update the report - this can be usefull for other controllers as well. Not needing to be SC specific.

Also there are some other nice ideas discussed here: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3203744275144591740/