Manjaro arm + sway - battery indicator broken

[mfashby]

Hi!

I have a pinebook pro, and I'm running manjaro ARM with sway window manager and it's great

...except the latest update broke the battery indicator, and I've no idea how to fix it. It now shows 100% all the time, occasionally flipping to 0% now and then.

Sway seems to use WayBar for the status indicators, and I found the manual for that here: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Battery. This seems to indicate it uses the values in /sys/class/power_supply/cw2015-battery/ to read the battery level. Doing that myself seems to give me a sensible looking answer (laptop has been on for a couple of hours)

[martin@martin-pinebook ~]$ cat /sys/class/power_supply/cw2015-battery/capacity
88

Is anyone else experiencing the same? anyone know how to fix it..?

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Downgrading waybar fixed it, and it looks like someone already opened a bug report.
https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/966

[ludix]

I have no fix but same behaviour on my PostmarketOS

[mfashby]

I have a possible fix to add support for charge_now status in the kernel, just trying to figure out how to add a kernel patch on manjaro ARM

[pine76]

I have the same problem with Manjaro Sway; I am hesitant to use Manjaro with my pinebook pro as I can't make sure whether it is the indicator or the power management itself. I have had similar (or related) problems with Manjaro Xfce and KDE; that is a reason I think it may be a problem more serious than the power manager indicator. After a Manjaro update or two power manager or network manager breaks...

[appelgriebsch]

I have the same problem with Manjaro Sway; I am hesitant to use Manjaro with my  pinebook pro as I can't make sure whether it is the indicator or the power management itself. I have had similar (or related) problems with Manjaro Xfce and KDE; that is a reason I think it may be a problem more serious than the power manager indicator. After a Manjaro update  or two power manager or network  manager breaks...

This is a bug in Waybar and has been posted already: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/966

[rimaille]

Why do you use waybar (which is by the way not part of sway project), not a personnalized one ?

There's ton of examples over internet, mine is this shell script : https://dpaste.com/5MDYNWSK2
you have to call it from the sway config file :

[...]

bar {
    position top
    status_command /home/remy/bin/sway_panel.sh

[...]

[mfashby]

Why do you use waybar (which is by the way not part of sway project), not a personnalized one ?

There's ton of examples over internet, mine is this shell script : https://dpaste.com/5MDYNWSK2
you have to call it from the sway config file :

[...]

bar {
    position top
    status_command /home/remy/bin/sway_panel.sh

[...]

just because waybar came with the default install for manjaro arm + sway on pinebook pro.
It seems ok apart from this battery indicator issue, which is being fixed soon I think.