acer-wmi-battery
A linux kernel driver for the Acer WMI battery health control interface (by frederik-h)
TLP
TLP - Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life (by linrunner)
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acer-wmi-battery
Posts with mentions or reviews of acer-wmi-battery.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-01.
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Battery life of suspended Acer Aspire laptop
I believe that the BIOS controls battery charging. There's an option to limit battery charging to 80%. I didn't find it in the BIOS but you can permanently set it in either - Acer Care Center under Windows or - https://github.com/frederik-h/acer-wmi-battery under Linux
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How to stop charging at 80% on Acer laptop?
Compile and load and set option with acer-wmi-battery.It worked fine from Debian/Ubuntu live USB so I didn't bother installing kernel-devel package on Fedora Silverlue , trying toolbox, Fedora Live media etc
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Enable battery limit on Linux
After some time spent on google, I found a solution: acer-wmi-battery custom driver.
- Battery only charging to 80 % (set under Windows)—How to change under Fedora?
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Is there anyway to limit battery charge to around 80% to help protect battery strength in a laptop?
I think it may depend on the brand of your laptop. For Acer I found this https://github.com/frederik-h/acer-wmi-battery/ If you're using a System76 one or other brands you might look for it. Try googling wmi "laptop brand" battery health Linux, or something like that. That's how I found this one
TLP
Posts with mentions or reviews of TLP.
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Battery time remaining changing
Usually full charge give me about ~5 hours, after install tlp here https://linrunner.de/tlp
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Thinkpad P52: touchscreen and battery threshold
https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/
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Best Power Management: Fedora 38 + Kernel 6.2.15 + TLP?
They definately do conflict, it was discussed back when ppd first arrived: https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/issues/564
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Power State management best practices?
If you're certain your GPU has deeper power saving states than P8, I would start by checking why it's not using them. Maybe tlp, powertop or nvtop (or their documentation) can help.
- How hot does the x230 get under the keyboard?
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Anyone Using Multiple Old Laptops As Home Servers?
I use TLP for my personal laptop https://linrunner.de/tlp/
- Why do so many people use Linux on their ThinkPad's? I used it for a while and just didnt get on with it
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How an I temporarily minimise power usage on my Mint laptop?
if you don't already have it installed, you could try tlp: https://linrunner.de/tlp/
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Ubuntu basic configuration
Install TLP
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Battery only charging to 80 % (set under Windows)—How to change under Fedora?
Maybe will be helpfull https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/issues/596