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Quick get battery status on Windows Powershell command line
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| # I am used to typing "acpi" at the command line in Linux to see | |
| # what my battery status is. I'm sure acpi does all kinds of other | |
| # useful stuff, but that's what I am used to having. Here | |
| # is something to do the same in Windows Powershell calling | |
| # out to the wmic program. I have it it my $profile file. | |
| # Also uses findstr and a list of output code meaning I found on | |
| # Stackexchange or somewhere.... (Sorry, don't remember where.) | |
| function acpi{ | |
| wmic path Win32_Battery Get EstimatedChargeRemaining | |
| $code=wmic path Win32_Battery Get BatteryStatus | findstr /v "Status" | |
| $code=$code.replace(" ","").replace("`n","") | |
| $status=@{ | |
| '1'="Discharging (Other)"; | |
| '4'="Discharging (Low)"; | |
| '5'="Discharging (Critical)"; | |
| '2'="Charging (Unknown)"; | |
| '6'="Charging"; | |
| '7'="Charging (High)"; | |
| '8'="Charging (Low)"; | |
| '9'="Charging (Critical)"; | |
| '11'="Partially Charged"; | |
| '3'="Fully Charged"; | |
| '10'="Not Present (Undefined)"; | |
| } | |
| echo $status[$code] | |
| } |
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mine only ever gets 1 or 2 so I guess the api is broken
wmic path Win32_Battery Get BatteryStatus. I am trying to find if the powercfg is currently running on AC or DC so I can fetch the appropriate power mode overlay registry settingHKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\User\PowerSchemeswith value ofActiveOverlayAcPowerSchemeorActiveOverlayDcPowerScheme