Battery Gauge

[jkilgus]

Hello gentlemen,

I'm using a wireless keyboard and the battery life is displayed in the task bar. When the double A batteries that this keyboard came with ran out I replaced them with rechargeable batteries. Unfortunately rechargeable batteries have a lower peak voltage than normal batteries. So now even though the batteries are fully charged, it is displaying the red "batteries almost dead" gauge in the taskbar. It would be super cool if there was some way to set an option that took into account the lower peak voltage of rechargeable batteries so that my battery meter could look full and not empty and red.

Thank you very much!

[Klap-in]

Please share some detail about your device. You could use: solaar show

[jkilgus]

Logitech K400+

Unifying Receiver Device path : /dev/hidraw0 USB id : 046d:c52b Serial : 956F9970 Firmware : 24.10 Bootloader : 01.08 Other : AA.AC Has 1 paired device(s) out of a maximum of 6. Notifications: wireless, software present (0x000900) Device activity counters: 1=90

1: Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 Plus Codename : K400 Plus Kind : keyboard Wireless PID : 404D Protocol : HID++ 4.1 Polling rate : 8 ms (125Hz) Serial number: F2DDB8D4 Bootloader: BOT 22.02.B0002 Firmware: RQK 63.02.B0016 Other: The power switch is located on the top edge. Supports 24 HID++ 2.0 features: 0: ROOT {0000}
1: FEATURE SET {0001}
2: DEVICE FW VERSION {0003}
3: DEVICE NAME {0005}
4: WIRELESS DEVICE STATUS {1D4B}
5: RESET {0020}
6: BATTERY STATUS {1000}
7: REPROG CONTROLS V4 {1B04}
8: SWAP BUTTON {2005}
9: NEW FN INVERSION {40A2}
10: ENCRYPTION {4100}
11: KEYBOARD DISABLE {4521}
12: TOUCHPAD RAW XY {6100}
13: GESTURE 2 {6501}
14: DFUCONTROL 2 {00C1}
15: unknown:1811 {1811} internal, hidden 16: unknown:1830 {1830} internal, hidden 17: unknown:1890 {1890} internal, hidden 18: unknown:1DF3 {1DF3} internal, hidden 19: unknown:1E00 {1E00} hidden 20: unknown:1EB0 {1EB0} internal, hidden 21: unknown:1861 {1861} internal, hidden 22: unknown:18B0 {18B0} internal, hidden 23: unknown:1F11 {1F11} internal, hidden Has 20 reprogrammable keys: 0: unknown:00B8 , default: LeftClick => unknown:00B8
mse, divertable, pos:0, group:0, gmask:0 1: BACK AS HID , default: BackEx => BACK AS HID
is FN, FN sensitive, reprogrammable, divertable, pos:1, group:0, gmask:0 2: MY HOME , default: HomePage => MY HOME
is FN, FN sensitive, reprogrammable, divertable, pos:2, group:0, gmask:0 3: Application Switcher , default: Application Switcher => Application Switcher
is FN, FN sensitive, reprogrammable, divertable, pos:3, group:0, gmask:0 4: CONTEXTUAL MENU , default: RightClick => CONTEXTUAL MENU
is FN, FN sensitive, reprogrammable, divertable, pos:4, group:0, gmask:0 5: SEARCH , default: SearchForFiles => SEARCH
is FN, FN sensitive, reprogrammable, divertable, pos:5, group:0, gmask:0 6: SHOW DESKTOP , default: ShowDesktop => SHOW DESKTOP
is FN, FN sensitive, reprogrammable, divertable, pos:6, group:0, gmask:0 7: WIN7 MAXIMIZE AS WIN ARROW, default: unknown:0095 => WIN7 MAXIMIZE AS WIN ARROW is FN, FN sensitive, reprogrammable, divertable, pos:7, group:0, gmask:0 8: WIN7 SHOW PRESENTATION MODE, default: unknown:0093 => WIN7 SHOW PRESENTATION MODE is FN, FN sensitive, reprogrammable, divertable, pos:8, group:0, gmask:0 9: MEDIA PLAYER , default: Music => MEDIA PLAYER
is FN, FN sensitive, reprogrammable, divertable, pos:9, group:0, gmask:0 10: Previous , default: Previous => Previous
is FN, FN sensitive, divertable, pos:10, group:0, gmask:0 11: Play/Pause , default: Play/Pause => Play/Pause
is FN, FN sensitive, divertable, pos:11, group:0, gmask:0 12: Next , default: Next => Next
is FN, FN sensitive, divertable, pos:12, group:0, gmask:0 13: unknown:00B7 , default: ShowUI => unknown:00B7
divertable, pos:0, group:0, gmask:0 14: LEFT CLICK , default: LeftClick => LEFT CLICK
mse, pos:0, group:0, gmask:0 15: RIGHT CLICK , default: RightClick => RIGHT CLICK
mse, pos:0, group:0, gmask:0 16: Mute , default: Mute => Mute
nonstandard, divertable, pos:0, group:0, gmask:0 17: Volume Up , default: Volume Up => Volume Up
nonstandard, divertable, pos:0, group:0, gmask:0 18: Volume Down , default: Volume Down => Volume Down
nonstandard, divertable, pos:0, group:0, gmask:0 19: SLEEP , default: Sleep => SLEEP
reprogrammable, divertable, pos:0, group:0, gmask:0 Battery: 50%, discharging.

[pfps]

Solaar is reporting 50% for your battery, which is what your device reports. If there is something that is reporting an empty battery then either it is not Solaar or the icon for the icon name (battery-good or battery-good-symbolic) is messed up in your icon theme.

Batteries vary. The reporting of battery levels by Logitech devices is primitive. Don't expect precision from battery levels.

[jkilgus]

I just recharged the batteries and now it's showing full so.... problem solved? I guess we can delete this sorry about that xD Solaar is pretty nice btw :)