battop
Interactive battery monitor
TLDR
Display battery information
$ battop
Use SI units instead of human-readable values$ battop -u si
Set the refresh delay to 5 seconds$ battop -d 5
SYNOPSIS
battop [-u units] [-d delay] [-v]
DESCRIPTION
battop is an interactive viewer for system batteries. It displays real-time information about battery status, charge level, capacity, and power consumption in a terminal interface, drawing charts over time. Left and right arrow keys switch between batteries when more than one is present.It runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and DragonFlyBSD.
PARAMETERS
-u, --units units
Measurement units to display: human (default) or si.-d, --delay seconds
Delay between updates, in seconds (default 1).-v, --verbose
Increase verbosity, may be repeated up to five times (-vvvvv). Log output goes to stderr.
KEYBINDINGS
- Left / Right arrows - Switch between batteries- q - Quit
INSTALL
yay -S battop
CAVEATS
On Linux it reads battery information from /sys/class/power_supply, so it only works on systems with a battery (laptops, tablets). Information accuracy depends on what the battery hardware reports.
HISTORY
battop is written in Rust by svartalf and provides a modern, cross-platform battery monitoring interface.
