Battery status for the CrowPi L laptop, with the native Linux Raspberry Pi OS, standing in the system tray, written with python3 and python3-pyqt5.
- Running on the native Linux Raspberry Pi OS,
- standing in the system tray,
- 7 state icons of the battery from 0% to 100%,
- icon when charging,
- alert icon when battery is very low,
- tooltip to view the percentage of the battery load and its voltage,
- contextual menu to properly quit the app,
- based on the official python script delivered by CrowPi (
/usr/local/sbin/getPowerBattery.py), - multi-threaded app to access the battery data with I2C.
From a terminal, install python3-pyqt5
$ sudo apt install python3-pyqt5
From a terminal, clone this projet (the first time only), go to its directory, make it executable (the first time only), run it and enjoy!
$ git clone git@github.com:ppyne/crowPi-L_BatteryStatus.git
$ cd crowPi-L_BatteryStatus/
$ chmod +x ./batteryStatus.py
$ ./batteryStatus.py
Warning: to quit the app properly, you must right click on its icon in the system tray and click the menu "Quit".