User:MartinDengler
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About Me
I program for a living. I got an XO to support the OLPC project and have a laptop for daily use.
I work with python and Fedora a lot.
XO/OLPC mini-projects
I'm interested in helping with:
* Implementing ebook mode (Trac #2654) * Sugar grabs too many shortcut keys (Trac #4646) * and anything else that looks interesting
Ambient temperature tracking
bash-3.2$ cat /ofw/openprom/model ; echo CL1 Q2D13 Q2D bash-3.2$ cat /boot/olpc_build update.1 691 bash-3.2$ for f in /sys/class/power_supply/olpc-battery/temp* ; do (echo -e $f\\t ; cat $f) | paste - - ; done /sys/class/power_supply/olpc-battery/temp 2783 /sys/class/power_supply/olpc-battery/temp_ambient 3900
bemasc explained things on #olpc [I edited out background chatter]:
bemasc: "ambient" means "ambient in the case" bemasc: battery means in the battery compartment bemasc: the "ambient" thermometer is on the motherboard bemasc: not sure which chip bemasc: they were trying to place in the antenna bemasc: so that it would be far from the heat sources mtd: bemasc: so I guess if I want to know the temperature outside the case, the lower of the two numbers is closer to that (though still quite inaccurate) bemasc: the battery temp is closest, yeah bemasc: if you have another thermometer, you might consider trying to work out the offset and correct for it bemasc: it'll be different depending on whether the battery is charging or discharging, and how fast bemasc: and it'll take at least a few minutes to stabilize bemasc: so it's not easy, but it's also not impossible
Misc snippets to remember
Backlight and blurring switched off, makes some pdfs more readable:
su -c "echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/dcon/output"
How to explicitly forget/add a WPA wireless network
If you want to forget/add a WPA wireless network explicitly, stop NetworkManager (/etc/init.d/NetworkManader stop) and edit
/home/olpc/.sugar/default/nm/networks.cfg
Screen battery status hint
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:09:19 +0000
From: Martin Dengler <martin@martindengler.com>
Subject: Battery capacity in screen hardstatus line hint
To: devel@lists.laptop.org
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Hi,
In case this is of use to anyone, I've put the battery capacity in my
xo screen instance's hardstatus line with this tiny script & screenrc
change:
---------- /home/olpc/bin/olpc_screen_status.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Author: Martin Dengler <martin@martindengler.com>
# idea from http://www.mail-archive.com/screen-users@gnu.org/msg00322.html
# based on battery info from olpc-logbat
#
B_INFO=/sys/class/power_supply/olpc-battery
while true
do
CAP=`cat $B_INFO/capacity`
echo b:$CAP%
sleep 60
done
----------
....screenrc change:
---------- /home/olpc/bin/.screenrc
# run command forever and assign most recent output to string escape %1`
backtick 1 0 0 /home/olpc/bin/olpc_screen_status.sh
# the ...%1`... part at the end is the important part
hardstatus alwayslastline "%{.bW}%-w%{.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %H %{..Y} %m/%d %C%a %1` "
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I'd be interested to know how to get at the ambient temperature sensor mentioned in section 2.4.1 of the CL1 hardware design specification PDF. I've had a look around /sys/class but nothing's jumped out at me.