From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:47:39 +1000

On 18/04/07, Barry Wardell <barry.wardell_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Remember how many complaints people issued when the "Runtime
> > remaining" only said 9 hours, shortly after the H300 battery fix?
> > People assume that it's somehow calculated based on current power
> > consumption rate, rather than simply being "We expect it to last a
> > total of 16 hours, you have 80% left, 0.8 * 16 = 12.8, so 12 hours, 48
> > minutes" (which is, I believe, all that's done now, with the "we
> > expect it to last a total of 16 hours" being based on what you've set
> > as your battery capacity).
>
> It's actually a bit more complicated than that. It bases the
> calculation on the current being used at the time (the calculation of
> current usage is done by the runcurrent() function). It takes account
> of USB, backlight, SPDIF, remote LCD, recording and memory size.
>
> While it's no doubt nice to have such an accurate report (I'm assuming
> it's accurate on targets it has been calibrated for, all the targets I
> have are way off), IMHO it over-complicates things, and the complexity
> will only get worse as more features, codecs and targets get added.
>
> So my vote still goes for stripping out all the complexity.
>
why dont we just simplify it and say the voltage drop in the last 5min
was X, so guess the time left from that?
Received on 2007-04-18