Where to see T430 battery capacity on Ubuntu

[dharmasaputro]

Right now I'm using Elementary OS Freya which is a derivative from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in Thinkpad T430. In T410, I can see battery config via terminal, like design capacity, start charge threshold, and so on. Is there any way to see those parameters in T430? I can set the charge threshold via tlp, but haven't find a way to see its full charged capacity in Ubuntu.

[brchan]

If you have "acpi" installed, you can run "acpi -V" (make sure to use capital V) to get all battery information, including current capacity and design capacity. This should work on any laptop.

Here is the output on my T61:

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[chan96@T61 ~]$ acpi -V
Battery 0: Unknown, 96%
Battery 0: design capacity 4532 mAh, last full capacity 2944 mAh = 64%
Adapter 0: on-line
Thermal 0: ok, 32.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 100.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode passive at temperature 95.5 degrees C
Thermal 1: ok, 44.0 degrees C
Thermal 1: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 127.0 degrees C
Cooling 0: LCD 0 of 15
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 10

[dharmasaputro]

My bad, I've found the answer, you just need to run tlp-stat, and then it'll show you the 'Thinkpad Battery Status'

[Temetka]

My bad, I've found the answer, you just need to run tlp-stat, and then it'll show you the 'Thinkpad Battery Status'

Note: You need to run it as root. So the actual command for Ubuntu based distro's is

sudo tlp-stat