Showing remaining Wh instead of charge percentage

[LavenderFela]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

It is difficult to estimate remaining battery life when looking at G-Helper, especially when battery health changes.

Example: seeing 50% battery means 38Wh remaining (at 100% health), 30.4Wh (at 80% health). Seeing discharge rate (e.g. 12W) gives a rough idea of discharge.

Describe the solution you'd like

Possibility to see remaining actual Wh instead of percentage and taking into account the battery health. Rough formula:
remaining Wh = design capacity * battery health * battery percentage, or, if laptop provides, remaining Wh.

This could be similarly to RPM vs. fan percentage - swapping on the click.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I was using HWINfo's tray icon for that, found it quite useful.

Device and Model

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA402

Additional information.

No response

[seerge]

@LavenderFela hello,

That's possible but click on a charge label is already reserved for opening a Battery Report. And mouse-over is reserved for showing battery health.

Any other ideas where you would like to add it ?

[LavenderFela]

That's a great point, thank you! What about then changing discharge/charging indicator text on click?

Default: Discharging: 10.1W
Swapped on click: Discharging 10.1W/36.12Wh

Default charging: Charging: 50.8W
Charging and swapped on click: Charging 50.8W/56.28Wh

Default fully charged: no text.
Fully charged and swapped on click: Charged, 60.8Wh

[seerge]

@LavenderFela i think it will make whole thing even more complicated, I have tried to squeeze charge in Wh into existing label.

Try this build
GHelper.zip

[LavenderFela]

Oh yeah, that gets way too tight; thank for the build!

I've mocked up a different idea, which changes white "Charging ..." text part in Photoshop. It looks less cluttered, but also might be confusing, since it doesn't mean actually mean (dis)charging rate, rather than current battery charge.

[seerge]

@LavenderFela I'm just afraid people will read that it's charging with 1W and a spike of a strange topics on reddit .... :)

[LavenderFela]

Yup, I've been looking at it now myself, and it looks a bit overwhelming... I guess, we could call it quits here; if anything, might need to learn how to build the app and add it just for myself.

That being said, thank you for your time! Love G-Helper for daily life, grateful for all the time and effort you (and community) put into it.

[seerge]

@LavenderFela ok, try this build.

I have made that click on discharge / charge label toggles between % and Wh reading. It's a bit confusing (cause it changes value on neighbor label), but that's best I can come up with atm

GHelper.zip

[seerge]

Live in https://github.com/seerge/g-helper/releases/tag/v0.196

[LavenderFela]

I'm terribly sorry for forgeting to come back to this, but thank you so much! Makes the app much more convenient for me at university lectures, no longer have to take into account 80% battery life when counting actual capacity.