Remote battery monitoring guide
claudio
MiniBatteryLogger starting from v1.7 can detect and attach remote
batteries; this works thanks to a network service that involves other
instances of MBL running (currently) over the local network -- I hope
somewhere in the future to allow the user to attach remote batteries
over the Internet given an IP address.
The sharing service runs on port 4153 TCP, so system and network
administrators should open this port in Firewalls and NAT.
A running instance of MBL can connect to remote batteries served by
other instances of MBL, the standalone battd daemon or the Dashboard
widget MiniBatteryStatus. I can't imagine how system administrators
will benefit from this ability, but hey, it's all about enabling new
possibilities, right?! It's then up to you to discover how to use them
and best fit them into your workflow.
The battd daemon is available as a separate download in the MBL page,
once downloaded and extracted it should be moved to /usr/local/bin or
equivalent and manually started or added to some kind of automatic
launcher (StartupItems, /etc/services or the like -- I bet you know
more than I do on this topic).
battd has no options nor man page at the moment, when I learn how to
do this I'll gladly add those features.
Cheers,
Claudio