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Don't power on if battery SOC is ≤5% #469

Open crawfxrd opened 2 months ago

crawfxrd commented 2 months ago

Prevent battery depletion and power-on-failure by not allowing the system to power on when:

System is not connected to AC power
Battery state of charge (SOC) is ≤5%

Maybe we can blink the LED as an indication that it won't power on due to battery charge.

Check:

5% is arbitrary; is there any specific minimum charge that should be used?
Should it be relative (RSOC) or absolute (ASOC)?

Related:

Should charging thresholds have a minimum allowed value?
https://github.com/system76/firmware-open/issues/62