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Battery Percentage Status Check

With Apple Remote Desktop, how can I generate a Battery Status or Battery Percentage Left on my Mac Laptop(s)?


I did find something that tells me the "Battery Charge Remaining (mAh)". Can I have the percentage left instead or hours will be fine too?


Thank you so much and have a wonderful day.


Fabio

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Oct 3, 2015 4:47 PM

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Oct 3, 2015 5:34 PM in response to fabio168

Screen Sharing and Apple Remote Desktop show the screen on the device you're connected to, including the menu bar. Are you seeing something else? The battery percentage display — which is local to the MacBook or MacBook Pro, and which can be shown in the menu bar — is controlled via the Energy Saver settings in System Preferences.

Oct 4, 2015 2:47 PM in response to Antonio Rocco

Antonio almost perfect, the only problem, and I tried more than once, Terminal stuck in a loop for checking the battery percentage.


It works perfectly when I use the actual machine, but when I use ARD to send a UNIX command as Root, if Terminal App on the target machine is not up and running, nothing is happing, but if Terminal it's up and running, this is what I get as output:


-InternalBattery-0 100%; discharging; (no estimate)

2015-10-04 17:34:52 -0400 com.apple.system.powersources

2015-10-04 17:35:52 -0400 com.apple.system.powersources.timeremaining

2015-10-04 17:35:52 -0400 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource

-InternalBattery-0 100%; discharging; 6:50 remaining

2015-10-04 17:35:52 -0400 com.apple.system.powersources

2015-10-04 17:36:52 -0400 com.apple.system.powersources.timeremaining

2015-10-04 17:36:52 -0400 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource

-InternalBattery-0 100%; discharging; 6:55 remaining

2015-10-04 17:36:52 -0400 com.apple.system.powersources

2015-10-04 17:37:52 -0400 com.apple.system.powersources.timeremaining

2015-10-04 17:37:52 -0400 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource

-InternalBattery-0 100%; discharging; 7:05 remaining

2015-10-04 17:37:52 -0400 com.apple.system.powersources

2015-10-04 17:38:52 -0400 com.apple.system.powersources.timeremaining

2015-10-04 17:38:52 -0400 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource

-InternalBattery-0 100%; discharging; 6:55 remaining

2015-10-04 17:38:52 -0400 com.apple.system.powersources

Battery Percentage Status Check

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