battery

Rust crate providing cross-platform information about the notebook batteries.

Table of contents

• Overview
• Supported platforms
• Install
• Examples
• FFI bindings
• Users
• License
• Donations
• Contributors
• Backers
• Sponsors

Overview

battery provides a cross-platform unified API to a notebook batteries state.

Its main goal is to wrap the OS-specific interfaces, cover all the hacks and legacy cases and get the batteries information (such as state of charge, energy rate, voltage and temperature) as a typed values, recalculated as necessary to be returned as a SI measurement units.

Supported platforms

• Linux 2.6.39+
• MacOS 10.10+
• iOS
• Windows 7+
• FreeBSD
• DragonFlyBSD
• NetBSD

Do note that iOS implementation uses IOKit bindings, your application might be automatically rejected by Apple based on that fact. Use it on your own risk.

Install

As a prerequisite, battery crate requires at least Rustc version 1.69 or greater.

Add the following line into a Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
battery = "0.8.3"

Examples

fn main() -> Result<(), battery::Error> {
    let manager = battery::Manager::new()?;

    for (idx, maybe_battery) in manager.batteries()?.enumerate() {
        let battery = maybe_battery?;
        println!("Battery #{}:", idx);
        println!("Vendor: {:?}", battery.vendor());
        println!("Model: {:?}", battery.model());
        println!("State: {:?}", battery.state());
        println!("Time to full charge: {:?}", battery.time_to_full());
        println!("");
    }

    Ok(())
}

See the battery/examples/ folder in the repository for additional examples.

Users

This an incomplete list of the battery crate users. If you are using it too, send me a message and I'll add your project here!

starship

starship is a Rust port of the minimalistic, powerful, and extremely customizable prompt Spaceship ZSH.
It is using the battery crate to show the the current battery level and status in a shell prompt.

Here is what @matchai says:

I really appreciate how easily we were able to get your library up and running! Battery APIs were a headache for us in predecessors of this project 😅

And there is this tweet also!