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Mark76

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Power Manager No Longer Showing Power Levels of Bluetooth and USB

Devices.

Was there a recent update that took this feature away?

ToZ

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Re: Power Manager No Longer Showing Power Levels of Bluetooth and USB

My bluetooth headset still shows power levels. What does:

upower -d

...say? Does it display power levels?

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Mark76

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Re: Power Manager No Longer Showing Power Levels of Bluetooth and USB

Only for the laptop. 

mark@mark-laptop:~$ upower -d
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path:          BAT0
  vendor:               Hewlett-Packard
  model:                Primary
  serial:               35426 2011/08/19
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Sat 10 Aug 2024 12:27:19 BST (5 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               fully-charged
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              31.8168 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         32.4108 Wh
    energy-full-design:  32.4108 Wh
    energy-rate:         0 W
    voltage:             12.308 V
    charge-cycles:       N/A
    percentage:          98%
    capacity:            100%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    icon-name:          'battery-full-charged-symbolic'

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_AC
  native-path:          AC
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Sat 10 Aug 2024 09:08:09 BST (11955 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  line-power
    warning-level:       none
    online:              yes
    icon-name:          'ac-adapter-symbolic'

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/DisplayDevice
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Sat 10 Aug 2024 09:08:09 BST (11955 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  battery
    present:             yes
    state:               fully-charged
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              31.8168 Wh
    energy-full:         32.4108 Wh
    energy-rate:         0 W
    charge-cycles:       N/A
    percentage:          98%
    icon-name:          'battery-full-charged-symbolic'

Daemon:
  daemon-version:  1.90.3
  on-battery:      no
  lid-is-closed:   no
  lid-is-present:  yes
  critical-action: PowerOff

ToZ

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Re: Power Manager No Longer Showing Power Levels of Bluetooth and USB

upowerd is not picking it up. Then neither will the power manager. Which distro are you using? Are you able to downgrade the upowerd package to see if it works again (perhaps it is a regression there)?

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Mark76

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Re: Power Manager No Longer Showing Power Levels of Bluetooth and USB

Ubuntu 24.04  LTS with Xfce4.18.  I can't see upowerd in Synaptic

ToZ

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Re: Power Manager No Longer Showing Power Levels of Bluetooth and USB

This looks like the package: https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/upower.

Here are existing bug reports:
- launchpad
- upstream
...see if there is anything relevant there.

I think you will need to pursue this as a upower issue.

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Mark76

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Re: Power Manager No Longer Showing Power Levels of Bluetooth and USB

Hmm.  I'm not seeing anything similar to my issues

Mark76

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Re: Power Manager No Longer Showing Power Levels of Bluetooth and USB

Just to see what would happen I disconnected and reconnected my bluetooth headphones using the Blueman applet rather than just turning the headphones on and the remaining battery charge indicator came back

mark@mark-laptop:~$ upower -d
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path:          BAT0
  vendor:               Hewlett-Packard
  model:                Primary
  serial:               35426 2011/08/19
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Sun 11 Aug 2024 10:57:07 BST (1 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               fully-charged
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              31.482 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         32.4108 Wh
    energy-full-design:  32.4108 Wh
    energy-rate:         0 W
    voltage:             12.292 V
    charge-cycles:       N/A
    percentage:          97%
    capacity:            100%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    icon-name:          'battery-full-charged-symbolic'

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_AC
  native-path:          AC
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Sun 11 Aug 2024 09:09:01 BST (6487 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  line-power
    warning-level:       none
    online:              yes
    icon-name:          'ac-adapter-symbolic'

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/headphones_dev_C8_2B_6B_05_B5_FE
  native-path:          /org/bluez/hci0/dev_C8_2B_6B_05_B5_FE
  model:                JBL TUNE510BT
  serial:               C8:2B:6B:05:B5:FE
  power supply:         no
  updated:              Sun 11 Aug 2024 10:53:24 BST (224 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       no
  headphones
    warning-level:       none
    percentage:          80%
    icon-name:          'battery-missing-symbolic'

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/DisplayDevice
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Sun 11 Aug 2024 09:09:01 BST (6487 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  battery
    present:             yes
    state:               fully-charged
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              31.482 Wh
    energy-full:         32.4108 Wh
    energy-rate:         0 W
    charge-cycles:       N/A
    percentage:          97%
    icon-name:          'battery-full-charged-symbolic'

Daemon:
  daemon-version:  1.90.3
  on-battery:      no
  lid-is-closed:   no
  lid-is-present:  yes
  critical-action: PowerOff
mark@mark-laptop:~$

Not sure what I can do about the mouse (a Logitech device) since it connects via a USB dongle and not Bluetooth

Last edited by Mark76 (2024-08-11 09:59:35)

CwF

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Re: Power Manager No Longer Showing Power Levels of Bluetooth and USB

Not sure what I can do about the mouse (a Logitech device) since it connects via a USB dongle and not Bluetooth

Look for a package called 'solaar' to handle logitech dongles.

Mark76

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Re: Power Manager No Longer Showing Power Levels of Bluetooth and USB

Solaar supports my mouse (M185)

Cheers.