Battery Meter

[Erichssf]

The battery meter is no showing all the details. It shows the actualy percentage of how charged the battery is, but everything reads at 0, and I can't find any documentation on what needs done to make it read it.

[raiguard]

Please try these troubleshooting steps.

[Erichssf]

Those steps didn’t make it work.

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Please try these troubleshooting steps https://github.com/raiguard/ModernGadgets/wiki/PerfMon-Troubleshooting .

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[Erichssf]

[raiguard]

Could you open the Rainmeter log (right-click the tray icon, click "About") and tell me if there are any errors there?

[Erichssf]

Yep, there were some errors for Battery Meter:

[Erichssf]

[Erichssf]

this is what the file consists of:

[Variables] ; COLORS colorBatteryFull=107,238,98 colorBatteryCharging=255,246,42 colorBatteryLow=236,28,70 colorBatteryCritical=255,0,0 colorBatteryNoBattery=#colorDim#

batteryLifetimeFormat=%#H hr %M min remaining

showChargeInfo=1 autoFailover=0 chargeUnits=Amps playCriticalWarningSound=1 batteryCriticalWarningSound=C:\Windows\Media\ringout.wav

[raiguard]

Huh, that's not very helpful. All it's telling me is that it's dividing by zero. Try enabling auto-failover?

@SilverAzide Is this why you added a HWiNFO option to your battery meter? Perhaps I should do the same.

[Erichssf]

enabled it, no change.

[SilverAzide]

Hi @raiguard! No, the auto-failover feature was for machines with multiple batteries. (It would allow the Battery Meter to switch to the next available battery once the first was exhausted.)

It looks like the [MeasureBatteryVoltage] measure, which is using the ActiveNet plugin, is returning zero (the measures should be disabled in this case). This could be due in turn to [MeasureBatteryInstance] returning something wrong.

@Erichssf, please try the following: Open the About screen, and on the Skins tab, select the Battery Meter and let us know what the [MeasureBatteryStatus], [MeasureBatteryInstance], and [MeasureBatteryVoltage] measures are returning (they should have a value and not be grayed out). Also, check the Plugins tab and ensure ActiveNet.dll is listed. Finally, open a PowerShell prompt and enter the following (all on one line):

gwmi -Namespace root\wmi -Query 'select InstanceName, ChargeRate, DischargeRate, RemainingCapacity, Voltage from BatteryStatus where Voltage > 0'

[Erichssf]

They look to have a value range (see attached pic).

ActiveNet.dll is listed in the plugins.

Ran the command in the PowerSHell and still no change, its still not change.

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Hi @raiguard https://github.com/raiguard ! No, the auto-failover feature was for machines with multiple batteries. (It would allow the Battery Meter to switch to the next available battery once the first was exhausted.)

It looks like the [MeasureBatteryVoltage] measure, which is using the ActiveNet plugin, is returning zero. This could be due in turn to [MeasureBatteryInstance] returning something wrong.

@Erichssf https://github.com/Erichssf , please try the following: Open the About screen, and on the Skins tab, select the Battery Meter and let us know what the [MeasureBatteryInstance] and [MeasureBatteryVoltage] measures are returning (they should have a value and not be grayed out). Also, check the Plugins tab and ensure ActiveNet.dll is listed. Finally, open a PowerShell prompt and enter the following (all on one line):

gwmi -Namespace root\wmi -Query 'select InstanceName, ChargeRate, DischargeRate, RemainingCapacity, Voltage from BatteryStatus where Voltage > 0'

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[SilverAzide]

Sorry, I didn't make it clear what I was looking for. Can you run the PowerShell command again and post the results here? The command isn't supposed to fix anything, it is supposed to report your battery info so I can see it., Also, can you post a screenshot of the About screen showing those measure values?

[Erichssf]

I included screen shots of both in my previous email, did they not come through?

The power shell command did not display anything.

I will post the screen shots in the thread on GitHub.

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Sorry, I didn't make it clear what I was looking for. Can you run the PowerShell command again and post the results here? The command isn't supposed to fix anything, it is support to report your battery info so I can see it., Also, can you post a screenshot of the About screen showing those measure values?

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[Erichssf]

[Erichssf]

I copied and pasted the command, but decided to type it all out, and this is what is displayed:

[SilverAzide]

Well... there's your problem, LOL. According to Windows, you have no battery, or your battery is dead. (Your last screenshot has a typo in the command, which is why you see the red error text.)

One more time, can you post the results of the following PowerShell command. This one should list something instead of nothing...

gwmi -Namespace root\wmi -Query 'select * from BatteryStatus'

If that doesn't show anything, try:

gwmi -Class Win32_Battery

[Erichssf]

The first command did not display anything. The second command did though:

[SilverAzide]

Huh... The fact that the first command is failing completely is the reason you are not seeing anything. Rainmeter's PowerPlugin sees a battery, but the ActiveNet plugin cannot fetch the battery details for your machine. You are out of luck, I'm afraid, and this Battery Meter will not work for you. (@raiguard, an HWiNFO variant could resolve this issue, but maybe it would have the same problems.)

Any chance you have ACPI disabled? One way to know is to open your Device Manager app. If you have ACPI enabled, you will see the following:

If ACPI is disbled, you will see "Standard PC". ACPI is a BIOS-level setting, so don't change it, otherwise Windows will see the change and try reinstalling drivers and re-configuring itself.

[Erichssf]

Based on all the info, I am gonna go out on a limb and say it’s maybe because it’s an ARM based machine. It’s the Samsung Galaxy Book S

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Huh... The fact that the first command is failing completely is the reason you are not seeing anything. Rainmeter's PowerPlugin sees a battery, but the ActiveNet cannot fetch the battery details for your machine. You are out of luck, I'm afraid, and this Battery Meter will not work for you. (@raiguard https://github.com/raiguard , an HWiNFO variant would resolve this issue.)

Any chance you have ACPI disabled? One way to know is to open your Device Manager app. If you have ACPI enabled, you will see the following:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2706567/81011636-496cf400-8e26-11ea-999a-3f274846a0d6.png

ACPI is a BIOS-level setting, so don't change it, otherwise Windows will see the change and try reinstalling drivers and re-configuring itself.

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[SilverAzide]

OHHHH.... OK! You might want to have led with that, LOL! :-D Good to know, tho! I appreciate it!

You're the first person I've heard from with an ARM machine. If you don't mind, would you be able to run RegEdit and post a screenshot of your registry at the following path:

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0

I'm dying to know what this branch of the registry looks like on an ARM CPU! An Intel example:

[Erichssf]

It's not bad so far. I picked it up, cause I wanted something light weight and still fairly powerful, to pretty much take with me where ever i go (instead of lugging around my gaming laptop) and getting it through Verizon it has it's own cellular LTE internet connection.

[SilverAzide]

Thanks! I've scoured the internet for this information and no one has posted a screenshot like this or described what the ARM processor looks like under Windows. This is great info! @raiguard, now we know exactly what's needed for our CPU Meters. :)

[Erichssf]

The CPU metering seems to work just fine actually. Network meter, works well. Disk meter, no issues. I don't use the GPU meter, so can't tell ya on that one. Only issue is the Battery Meter.

BTW, I love the Modern Gadgets, I use them on all my computers. 😎

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Thanks! I've scoured the internet for this information and no one has posted a screenshot like this or described what the ARM processor looks like under Windows. This is great info! @raiguard https://github.com/raiguard, now we know exactly what's needed for our CPU Meters. :)

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[SilverAzide]

Yeah, there is only one way I know of to get battery voltage and it is via an undocumented API. It has worked in all Windows versions since at least WinXP days, but it looks like on ARM the API doesn't exist. That's why that WMI query you did isn't returning anything.

If you open your Admin Tools and select Performance Monitor, then in the Performance Monitor branch select the green "plus" to add a counter, do you see a counter called "Battery Status" as shown below? I'm guess you do NOT have this, since this is the "undocumented" API.

[raiguard]

Also, if you have HWiNFO, could you confirm whether or not it gets the battery statistics? If it does, then I can add a HWiNFO version of battery meter that will work in your situation.

And thanks for the regedit screenshot! That is indeed helpful. :D

[SilverAzide]

Hi @raiguard ! Sorry for clogging up your github issue with all my yammering, LOL. Looks like the ActiveNet options for getting voltage, charge rate, etc. are no longer needed. Only "instance name" seems to be of value now; the new UsageMonitor plugin can do the rest. Maybe PerfMon could do this too and I just never noticed. Oh well, it wouldn't be the first time the plugin duplicated existing functionality...

I'd be surprised if HWiNFO supports ARM processors (https://www.hwinfo.com/about-software/supported-components/) but it would be great if it does!

[Erichssf]

Nope, no battery status listed there ☹

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Yeah, there is only one way I know of to get battery voltage and it is via an undocumented API. It has worked in all Windows versions since at least WinXP days, but it looks like on ARM the API doesn't exist. That's why that WMI query you did isn't returning anything.

If you open your Admin Tools and select Performance Monitor, then in the Performance Monitor branch select the green "plus" to add a counter, do you see a counter called "Battery Status" as shown below? I'm guess you do NOT have this, since this is the "undocumented" API.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2706567/81076061-2ccdcc00-8eb9-11ea-9f50-c3f64caef568.png

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[Erichssf]

I will DL HWinfo and try it.

It’s been awhile since I used HWinfo on any machines though

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Also, if you have HWiNFO, could you confirm whether or not it gets the battery statistics? If it does, then I can add a HWiNFO version of battery meter that will work in your situation.

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[Erichssf]

Downloaded HWInfo, here are some screenshots:

[SilverAzide]

Great!

[Erichssf]

Well, I suppose this issue can be closed. If you need/want any info from an ARM machine to test things, let me know I would be willing to help make your Modern Gadgets work across any machine :)

[raiguard]

Thank you! The information you provided was really helpful, I'll be sure to hit you up in the future if I have any other questions. Have a good day!

[Erichssf]

Welcome.

Have a good evening yourself 😊

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Thank you! The information you provided was really helpful, I'll be sure to hit you up in the future if I have any other questions. Have a good day!

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[SilverAzide]

Hi @Erichssf and @raiguard... sorry to continue this thread after it is closed. Perhaps a new issue would be more appropriate, or we could continue this topic on the Rainmeter forum so more people could contribute. One thing that would be very useful would be to try HWiNFO and the GPU Meter. GPU Meters (both raiguard's and mine) tend to expect AMD or nVidia (and perhaps Intel) GPUs. I, at least, have never seen what Qualcomm's GPU looks like with respect to HWiNFO. @raiguard, didn't you find some secret trick to dump out all the sensor IDs and etc. into a file? If @Erichssf could dump his HWiNFO data somehow, we could get our GPU Meters to handle Qualcomm's GPU (if they don't already).

[Erichssf]

I will play around with it when I get home today

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Hi @Erichssf https://github.com/Erichssf and @raiguard https://github.com/raiguard... sorry to continue this thread after it is closed. Perhaps a new issue would be more appropriate. One thing that would be very useful would be to try HWiNFO and the GPU Meter. GPU Meters (both raiguard's and mine) tend to expect AMD or nVidia (and perhaps Intel) GPUs. I, at least, have never seen what Qualcomm's GPU looks like with respect to HWiNFO. @raiguard https://github.com/raiguard, didn't you find some secret trick to dump out all the sensor IDs and etc. into a file? If @Erichssf https://github.com/Erichssf could dump his HWiNFO data somehow, we could get our GPU Meters to handle Qualcomm's GPU (if they don't already).

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[Erichssf]

Well, as you can see based on this screenshot, HWinfo does not have any sensors for the GPU on this ARM machine. But it does have the battery info, so if the battery meter can use HWinfo, that's how the battery info can be displayed.

[Erichssf]

forgot the screenshot LOL

[SilverAzide]

Well, it was a noble try! I'm just shocked HWiNFO worked as well as it did, especially since the HWiNFO docs do not list the CPU as being supported at all. Thank you very much for your time and effort!

[Erichssf]

Anytime. If you need/want any more info about the ARM system, just let me know :)