How to show battery status in Zsh prompt

Question

I think the answer is quite self explanatory.

I've been looking around for a software that already does this but I haven't had any luck. It's either not done in Zsh, or it's for another app, for example tmux. Point is I haven't been able to find it.

So my question is, is there already a pre-made script that somebody did that does this? If there is, could you please share a link to it.

If there isn't, what should I look into to making this script? I'm a newbie at Zsh scripting so bear that in mind.

The idea is that it outputs something along the lines of 67%. You get the point. ;)

Answer 1

The other answer doesn't work on Mac OS X (no apci).

I've taken bits of Steve Losh's zsh prompt in my prompt. It's not exactly what you're after - the arrows ▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸ show the current battery state, and change color when the battery gets low. This method uses a Python script, which for completeness I'll add below. Here's a screenshot of my prompt in action:

Another method for OS X is presented on Reddit, using another short script:

ioreg -n AppleSmartBattery -r | awk '$1~/Capacity/{c[$1]=$3} END{OFMT="%.2f%%"; max=c["\"MaxCapacity\""]; print (max>0? 100*c["\"CurrentCapacity\""]/max: "?")}'
ioreg -n AppleSmartBattery -r | awk '$1~/ExternalConnected/{gsub("Yes", "+");gsub("No", "%"); print substr($0, length, 1)}'

Assuming this script is saved in ~/bin/battery.sh:

function battery {
    ~/bin/battery.sh
}
setopt promptsubst
PROMPT='$(battery) $'

which looks like this:

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To use Steve Losh's script, save the script somewhere, and use it in the battery() function above.

The battery-charge Python script for OS X

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding=UTF-8

import math, subprocess

p = subprocess.Popen(["ioreg", "-rc", "AppleSmartBattery"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
output = p.communicate()[0]

o_max = [l for l in output.splitlines() if 'MaxCapacity' in l][0]
o_cur = [l for l in output.splitlines() if 'CurrentCapacity' in l][0]

b_max = float(o_max.rpartition('=')[-1].strip())
b_cur = float(o_cur.rpartition('=')[-1].strip())

charge = b_cur / b_max
charge_threshold = int(math.ceil(10 * charge))

# Output

total_slots, slots = 10, []
filled = int(math.ceil(charge_threshold * (total_slots / 10.0))) * u'▸'
empty = (total_slots - len(filled)) * u'▹'

out = (filled + empty).encode('utf-8')
import sys

color_green = '%{[32m%}'
color_yellow = '%{[1;33m%}'
color_red = '%{[31m%}'
color_reset = '%{[00m%}'
color_out = (
    color_green if len(filled) > 6
    else color_yellow if len(filled) > 4
    else color_red
)

out = color_out + out + color_reset
sys.stdout.write(out)

Answer 2

A very-very simple solution:

setopt promptsubst
PROMPT='$(acpi | grep -o "[0-9]*%)% '