zsh-airpods-battery

Zsh plugin that looks for Airpods via bluetooth and displays their battery in RPROMPT. The plugin is mainly for personnal use although I provided some installation information. \ It is probably not compatible with powerlevel9k or anything that uses the RPROMPT variable.

Because of Apple's decisions toward non Apple devices interacting with airpods, fetched values go from 0 to 10 resulting in a ±5% precision.

Zsh plugin installation

With oh-my-zsh

git clone https://github.com/A-delta/zsh-airpods-battery.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/airpods-battery

And add airpods-battery to plugins in .zshrc.

Python script installation

You can simply run the script via python3 fetch_airpods_battery.py or you can install it as a service:

Edit the following airpods-battery-fetcher.service service file template:

[Unit]
Description=AirPods Battery Fetcher for zsh plugin zsh-airpods-battery

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /PATH/TO/fetch_airpods_battery.py /tmp/airpods_battery.out # EDIT SCRIPT PATH HERE
Restart=always
RestartSec=3

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Move the service file to correct location:

mv airpods-battery-fetcher.service /etc/systemd/user/airpods-battery-fetcher.service

Start service:

systemctl --user start airpods-battery-fetcher.service

Enable service on boot:

systemctl --user enable airpods-battery-fetcher.service

If service fails, you may have to create the dump file :

touch /tmp/airpods_battery.out