Laptop battery monitoring support

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Downloaded
2. Started and checked all options available in View/Sensors menu
3. I can not see the fan speed and many others as presented on your web 
site. Please see the attached file

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would like to see the meters for all the hardware, as it is presented on 
the website

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I am using the latest version on a Windows 7 OS

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by linasel on 23 Feb 2010 at 10:12

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The Open Hardware Monitor can only display sensor data if all of the following 
is true:

- There is hardware in the PC that measures the data
- The hardware is accessible by software for reading the data
- The hardware is documented and the documents are publicly available, or there 
is a
documented API to access the data
- There is code implemented in the Open Hardware Monitor to read the data

For laptops very often at least one of the first three conditions is not true. 
So
either there is no hardware chip monitoring the data, or it is not accessible by
software or there is no documentation available publicly. I can only do 
something if
the only thing missing is the implementation in the Open Hardware Monitor.

To find out more about the first three conditions, it is usually a good idea to
compare with similar software. You could try and see if CPUID HWMonitor, 
SpeedFan,
Everest, GPU-Z or a monitoring tool provided by the laptop manufacturer can 
read any
further sensors. Or you can see if you can find any useful documentation about 
your
hardware.

Original comment by moel.mich on 23 Feb 2010 at 10:51

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One suggestion from issue 6 is support for laptop battery monitoring. This is a 
valid
enhancement, and will be added into Open Hardware Monitor.

Original comment by moel.mich on 3 Mar 2010 at 3:29

• Changed title: Laptop battery monitoring support
• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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The Windows API Codepack has events, properties and statuses for showing 
battery data.

Checkout the Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.ApplicationServices.PowerManager 
class, supports Windows 2000 and above.

Original comment by [email protected] on 1 Jan 2011 at 1:48

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I will work on a battery implementation using Win32 APIs.

Original comment by [email protected] on 30 Aug 2011 at 7:47

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When OHM will support battery monitoring? 

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Jul 2012 at 3:06

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In some laptops I already get this information using OHM 0.5.1 beta. I believe 
this issue can be closed.

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Jun 2013 at 6:39

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On my SAMSUNG NP300E5C-S08IT the battery implementation doesn't work. I think 
the issue shouldn't be closed

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Jun 2013 at 7:43

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The Open Hardware Monitor does not have any battery monitoring support so far, 
so I wonder how you could get that type of information. Maybe you used a fork 
of the Open Hardware Monitor?

Original comment by moel.mich on 27 Jun 2013 at 8:15

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Heh my bad. It was harddrive lifetime estimation.

Original comment by [email protected] on 29 Jun 2013 at 8:23