Battery - view summary stats about your laptop battery

[Benzi]

 

Description: Shows summary information about your laptop battery (charge, time, status, charge cycles, and health - % of maximum charge your battery can now hold compared to its original design capacity)

Usage: enter the keyword "battery"

Tested on: Mountain Lion, MacBook Pro

Download: from here

 

 

Edited April 19, 2017 by Benzi
Fixed download link

[samvlu]

Awesome work!

I love the icons too.

[DJay]

WOW. Really great and helpful. thx a lot.

[sgutierrez]

Great!

[harringg]

Awesome!  Allows me to remove the battery icon from menu bar.  On 13" MBP, menu bar space is precious.

 

Thanks 

[GamerChase]

Description: Shows summary information about your laptop battery (charge, time, status, charge cycles, and health - % of maximum charge your battery can now hold compared to its original design capacity)

Usage: enter the keyword "battery"

Tested on: Mountain Lion, MacBook Pro

Download: from here

 

Dude this is awesome

[GamerChase]

Awesome!  Allows me to remove the battery icon from menu bar.  On 13" MBP, menu bar space is precious.

 

Thanks 

 

I'm particular about my menu bar as well. Have you checked out Bartender to keep it tidy?

[rice.shawn]

This is great. And I'll second GamerChase on Bartender. It's a must have.

[spacecadet9]

Great.. just great!!

[Benzi]

Hi All, thanks for all the positive feedback!   glad this is useful...

[iEnno]

Thanks man, I can delete a Dashboard Widget now Doing this via Alfred is so much cooler.

[hzlzh]

Hi, I've added your workflow to the [Alfred Workflow List Website] to share with more users. Hope you like it.

http://www.alfredworkflow.com/#Battery

[Benzi]

Hi, I've added your workflow to the [Alfred Workflow List Website] to share with more users. Hope you like it.

http://www.alfredworkflow.com/#Battery

 

Great initiative for sharing/discovering workflows :-) I added a couple more of my workflows in there.

[Net Wanderer]

This works more smoothly than the extension I was using in V1, thanks!

[Weaselboy]

Really slick work Benzi! Thanks

[Benzi]

A little update after a long time - added temperature reading, serial number and battery age. Did some work updating the icons too.

 

Download via here.

[RYE]

Very nice -- I've ditched another menu bar item. Thanks!

[Benzi]

I can't seem to get this workflow running. It hangs at "..., retrieving..."

 

Any suggestions?

 

 

Hi there, if possible could you run the following command in Terminal and PM me the output?

ioreg -l -n AppleSmartBattery -r

[nschirmer]

This looks great and, assuming it's still running, I'm definitely going to install it.

 

I have a question: is it at all possible to tap into the "Apps using the most energy/battery" and display the top two with this workflow, too? That's really the only use the menu bar battery icon still has for me, personally. I know you can also more or less just use the activity monitor for such a thing, but I thought it worth asking.

[lazaracus]

Great workflow! Keep the awesome up!

 

Question: what theme is being used in that image?

[mixterdee]

Has this stopped working? If I select it it tries to start a Google search.

[nschirmer]

Has this stopped working? If I select it it tries to start a Google search.

 

 

Seems to still be working for me. I've had that happen a lot with other workflows, though.

 

Eventually I learned to open the Workflows preferences, select the workflow in question, and click the spider icon on the top right to enable debug output (and changing the dropdown in the console to "All Information"). Then I trigger alfred, type the workflow keyword, and see what information it outputs in that console area. Helps me see if the workflow is bugging or even being triggered at all.

[rice.shawn]

Has this stopped working? If I select it it tries to start a Google search.

 

Opening Google search is just the "fallback" search, which means that the workflow failed to produce any usable results for Alfred.

 

This happened to me as well at some point with some upgrade. To fix it, just open the file battery.sh in the workflow and, around line 81, change

    <title>$TEMPERATURE° C</title>
	<subtitle>Temperature</subtitle>
	<icon>temp.png</icon>
  </item>

to

    <title>${TEMPERATURE}° C</title>
	<subtitle>Temperature</subtitle>
	<icon>temp.png</icon>
  </item>

So, probably some Yosemite upgrade changed a version of Bash, and that version of Bash chokes when the degree symbol is next to a variable.

[mixterdee]

Opening Google search is just the "fallback" search, which means that the workflow failed to produce any usable results for Alfred.

 

This happened to me as well at some point with some upgrade. To fix it, just open the file battery.sh in the workflow and, around line 81, change

    <title>$TEMPERATURE° C</title>
	<subtitle>Temperature</subtitle>
	<icon>temp.png</icon>
  </item>

to

    <title>${TEMPERATURE}° C</title>
	<subtitle>Temperature</subtitle>
	<icon>temp.png</icon>
  </item>

So, probably some Yosemite upgrade changed a version of Bash, and that version of Bash chokes when the degree symbol is next to a variable.

 

Thanks, that fixed it for me.

[Grug]

Opening Google search is just the "fallback" search, which means that the workflow failed to produce any usable results for Alfred.

 

This happened to me as well at some point with some upgrade. To fix it, just open the file battery.sh in the workflow and, around line 81, change

    <title>$TEMPERATURE° C</title>
	<subtitle>Temperature</subtitle>
	<icon>temp.png</icon>
  </item>

to

    <title>${TEMPERATURE}° C</title>
	<subtitle>Temperature</subtitle>
	<icon>temp.png</icon>
  </item>

So, probably some Yosemite upgrade changed a version of Bash, and that version of Bash chokes when the degree symbol is next to a variable.

Thanks, it works for me.

I'm still on OsX Maverick and add the problem with Alfred V3ß.