Steam Deck - Battery Health Monitoring Tool (idea for new option under settings)

[DeathF!re]

It would be nice having a new feature to have a seperate little option under settings where people could monitor and see the "health" status of the battery in their units - just like on mobile phones. This could also improve health and safety: in very rare cases overused batteries can "bloat" and/or blow up. By seeing some health stats of the battery unit could minimize and prevent any potential cases in time.

Also improvement on the battery charging indicator led would be appreciated:
- if possible, different color codes to indicate the level of charge
- if no color options are available, then perhaps a gentle / pulse effect to be implemented while battery is in charge, and solid light when it is fully charged.

Maybe an option to limit the charging capacity:
- charge only up to 80-85-90-95-100% (an option to choose from)
This might be not a popular feature, but could slow down battery degradation.
Maybe adding an extra feature to specify night time / sleep time duration, so the option would only work during those hours, and fully charge out of the specified time frame. This could help for people (like me) who has a bad habit to leave mobile devices on the charges over night.

[Prezidentas]

Battery health status like capacity is already available in the Desktop mode

[@R+5]

+1

what if there was an option to display the battery as overlay, like the fps-gpu-cpu monitor?

and i mean as an additional tool, rather than integrating that info there, so it could consume less space; maybe the battery monitor could include the option to show or hide one or more clocks (more than one, for different time zones or countries; could be useful for travelers)

[DeathF!re]

Red Star Gopnik eredeti hozzászólása:

Battery health status like capacity is already available in the Desktop mode

True, but i would prefer to have an option to see it in Game mode as well, not only in Desktop mode

[DeathF!re]

@R+5 eredeti hozzászólása:

+1

what if there was an option to display the battery as overlay, like the fps-gpu-cpu monitor?

and i mean as an additional tool, rather than integrating that info there, so it could consume less space; maybe the battery monitor could include the option to show or hide one or more clocks (more than one, for different time zones or countries; could be useful for travelers)

Sounds also as a good option idea 👍

[retrogunner]

A feature request implementation from Valve may take too long.

Luckily, it sounds like an easy feature request for the SteamOS Plug-in Manager[github.com] covered on Gaming On Linux[www.gamingonlinux.com] given that with Linux, you can 'list out' the status from the command line in numerous ways[www.cyberciti.biz].

For example, on my 3 Odroid Go Advance/Supers, I've a shell script that outputs the
`cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status` # whatever that specific device's path is.

So, a little python/html/javascript and blammo - detailed battery & charging status using the community SteamOS Plug-in Manager. Something you (or someone you know) could make in hour. (I'd make it but I don't have my Steam Deck yet to do so.)

Cheers, retro.

[my new friend]

retrogunner eredeti hozzászólása:

A feature request implementation from Valve may take too long.

Especially in the wrong forum.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/2/

[Marlock]

@R+5 eredeti hozzászólása:

and i mean as an additional tool, rather than integrating that info there, so it could consume less space

I'd rather they add several items in the same overlay and let us choose which info we want to see when enabled... it is easier to maintain, less prone to crashes when more overlays are enabled, the layout will not suffer visual conflicts (eg: more than one info piled up in exactly the same spot in the corner), and it'll be a bit lighter on resourses