time-on-battery-m1

Mac OS terminal app for measure real elapsed time on battery between charging. Without sleeping time unlike in system's Activity Monitor.

Requirements

• MacOS Big Sur
• M1 processor (arm64)

Installation

• npm: npm install -g @twistezo/time-on-battery-m1
• yarn: yarn global add @twistezo/time-on-battery-m1
• build locally or download executable binary file from GitHub and use it

Note that to running downloaded binary it's necessary to add permissions: sudo chmod 755 ./time-on-battery-m1.

Usage

Standard way

From npm/yarn you can use globally names:

• tob
• time-on-battery
• time-on-battery-m1

Run in terminal tob s and in the other tab run tob or tob l -q 20 for 10 (default) or 20 last logs. You can find logs in tob-data.csv file which is updated every 1 minute and placed in path where you did run the service.

Background service

1. Install pm2 process manager for running app service in background

   npm install pm2 -g

2. Start app service

   pm2 start tob -- s

3. You can check current status with pm2 list or in tob-data.csv file.

4. You can stop the service with pm2 stop tob.

5. After update to new version just reload the service with pm2 reload tob

Commands

Usage: tob [options] [command]

Options:
  -v, --version    output the current version
  -h, --help       display help for command

Commands:
  log|l [options]  show last 10 logs
  service|s        run service in background

Usage: tob log|l [options]

show last periods on battery

Options:
  -q, --quantity <number>  show last n periods on battery (default: "10")

Development

• Install dependencies: npm install
• Start dev (TS): npm run start
• Build (JS): npm run build
• Start build (JS): npm run start:build
• Publish to npm: npm login && npm publish
• Build arm64 binary: npm run build:bin

Screenshot

A few hours after charging

While charging