*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1153488 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1153488
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1066208
power indicator shows a mouse battery as a laptop battery
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1153488
Treats bluetooth input device batteries as batteries
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069075
Title:
Power status menu shows mouse battery only in menu bar, confusingly
Status in The Power Indicator:
New
Status in “indicator-power” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Upon upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10, the power status menu started showing
the battery charge of my Bluetooth mouse (an Eclipse Touchmouse),
which is very nice. However, because there is only one battery shown
at once in the menu bar, I did not at first realise that it was my
mouse battery being shown, and I could not work out why my laptop
battery was only at 30% charge and was not showing as connected to AC
power. In the end, I showed the power menu and discovered that there
were two batteries in it, which helped clear up the confusion.
This would have been much clearer if the battery icon in the menu bar
were a picture of a mouse. It is possible that Ubuntu does not know
enough metadata about my mouse to know that it *is* a mouse and this
is why it appears merely as a second laptop battery. Attached
screenshot shows that Ubuntu believes my mouse to be "unknown
technology" and its Type to be "laptop battery". However, the device
ID contains "_hid_", which suggests that something somewhere in the
system is aware that it's a battery for a Human Interface Device
(possibly "human input device"), and thus not the main battery for my
laptop. The model is also known ("Eclipse Touch Mouse") although of
course that's only unparseable text.
There may be two bugs here: that it's not obvious on an Ubuntu upgrade
that there are now two batteries shown when one was shown before, and
that Ubuntu is not correctly identifying my Bluetooth mouse *as* a
mouse. I am happy to provide metadata to help with the latter case.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: indicator-power 12.10.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 4d186c1dd89d3ba4cb89f5ee55713686
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Sat Oct 20 14:07:33 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64
(20111211)
SourcePackage: indicator-power
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-20 (0 days ago)
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