Triggering Applescript on Low Battery Warning

[rak]

Is it possible to trigger an Applescript when the battery reaches a low (~20%) level? or when the low battery warning pops up?

Could you have a script running in the background that looks at the output of

ioreg -wO -l | grep Capacity

and trigger Sleep?

[hayne]

Yes you could.

[rak]

Haynes, thanks for confirming my suspicions!

I found this old perl script which checks the battery level and calls an Applescript:
http://www.zaftig.net/node/322 (code listing )

But it's doesn't work in Leopard, the options for ioreg and the output format are different:

/usr/sbin/ioreg -p IODeviceTree -n "battery" -w

Output:

"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Voltage"=11925,"Flags"=4,"Amperage"=1705,"Capacity"=4149,"Current"=3717})

I tried modifying it with the Leopard-friendly command I mentioned originally and replacing references to IOBatteryInfo with LegacyBatteryInfo

ioreg -wO -l | grep Capacity

Output:

"LegacyBatteryInfo" = {"Capacity"=4149,"Voltage"=11925,"Flags"=4,"Current"=3717,"Amperage"=1705,"Cycle Count"=123}

As the sequence of the output is different it fails, the regex in the "formatBatteryInfo" section of the code (line 65 onwards) needs to be modified. I'm not fluent in regex, so have no idea how to extract the Capacity and Current values.

Any help would be appreciated!

[NovaScotian]

Something like this will extract the current percentage:

set Cap to (do shell script "ioreg -wO -l | grep Capacity")

tell Cap to set {Available, Max} to {last word of paragraph 1, last word of paragraph 4}

set Pct to round (100 * Available / Max)

[rak]

Thanks, NovaScotian. That's a lot more simple!