https://github.com/fleaz/battery-refresh

Automatically cycle your laptop battery with a smart socket
https://github.com/fleaz/battery-refresh

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Automatically cycle your laptop battery with a smart socket

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fleaz/battery-refresh
• Owner: fleaz
• Created: 2023-08-11T16:41:22.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-08-11T17:00:54.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-08-11T23:46:15.082Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 1000 Bytes
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# battery-refresh

Use a smart socket to automatically refresh your laptop battery.

## Usecase

After a few years of home office, my laptop battery was pretty bad because my work laptop spend 24/7 in a docking

station. To get a bit of capacity back I thought about running a few charge/discharge cycles. This is a common feature

to refresh old batteries (mainly due to better battery circuit calibration) and can e.g. be done with the Thinkvantage

tools on Windows if you own a Thinkpad.

Because I have a Dell XPS, I needed a different approach. And because I have Home Assistant, my idea was to use a smart

socket and just turn it on/off based on the current battery charge level.

## Usage

Open the `main.py` and adapt the variables on top of the script to your setup. The code was created quite late in the

night, so it's not that beautiful, but it get's the job done :D

After that, just plug the charger in the smart socket, conenct your laptop to the charger and start the script. Then let

it run as long as you like.

Depending on the performance of your battery, you probably don't want to set the THRESH_LOW to low, so it won't turn off

before reaching it. Setting THRESH_HIGH to 100 is also not recommended because modern lithium batteries don't like to be

completly full or completly empty.