Battery-Z: Your Laptop’s Battery Companion, Built with Precision and Care
Battery-Z is an open-source, cross-platform battery monitoring and optimization tool designed to empower users with deep insights into their laptop’s battery health and performance. Crafted with ❤️ by Muhammad Kashan Tariq, Battery-Z combines advanced diagnostics, intuitive visualizations, and actionable tips to extend battery life and enhance user experience. Whether you’re a casual user, a developer, or a power enthusiast, Battery-Z is your go-to solution for keeping your laptop’s battery in top shape! 🌟
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Battery-Z offers a robust suite of features to monitor, analyze, and optimize your laptop’s battery:
- Real-Time Stats: Tracks battery percentage, charging state, estimated time remaining, and power consumption with precision. ⚡
- Detailed Hardware Info: Retrieves critical battery details, including manufacturer, serial number, chemistry, design capacity, and full charge capacity. 🛠️
- Cycle Count Analysis: Accurately measures battery cycle counts using multiple methods (WMIC, WMI, Powercfg, ACPI, and charge log estimation). 🔄
- Health Assessment: Calculates battery health based on cycle count and capacity retention, with clear visual indicators (Good, Moderate, Poor). 📈
- Modern Design: Sleek, customizable UI with Dark and Light themes for a personalized experience. 🌙☀️
- Animated Visuals: Dynamic battery health and charge level widgets with glowing effects for real-time feedback. ✨
- System Tray Integration: Stay informed with system tray notifications for low battery, poor health, or high temperatures. 🔔
- Battery History Visualization: Interactive graphs to track battery percentage over time using Matplotlib. 📉
- Multi-Source Data Collection: Combines data from Powercfg, WMI, ACPI, and system registry for unparalleled accuracy. 🔍
- Cycle Count Calibration: Manual calibration option for users when automatic detection is uncertain. ⚙️
- Temperature Monitoring: Tracks battery temperature to prevent overheating, with alerts for critical thresholds. 🌡️
- Charge Log Analysis: Logs charge events to estimate cycle counts and predict battery lifespan. 📝
- Actionable Advice: Curated tips to extend battery life, such as avoiding full discharges and optimizing charge cycles. 🧠
- Dynamic Suggestions: Rotates through practical recommendations tailored to your battery usage patterns. 🔄
- Local Storage: Saves battery history, charge logs, and cycle count data in the user’s AppData directory for long-term tracking. 💾
- Efficient Logging: Uses rotating file handlers to manage log files, ensuring minimal disk usage. 🗂️
Battery-Z stands out as a powerful, user-friendly tool designed to demystify battery management:
- Precision-Driven: Leverages multiple data sources (Powercfg, WMI, ACPI, and more) to ensure accurate and reliable battery insights. ✅
- User-Centric: Crafted with a focus on ease of use, featuring a polished UI and heartfelt messages to engage users. ❤️
- Open Source: Freely available for community contributions, with a clear structure for developers to enhance and extend. 🌍
- Cross-Platform Ready: Built with Python and PyQt5, ensuring compatibility with Windows (with plans for future platform support). 🖥️
Battery-Z is built with a modular architecture, ensuring maintainability and scalability:
- BatteryIntelligence Class: The backbone of battery data collection, processing, and analysis. It consolidates data from multiple sources and provides robust fallback mechanisms. 🧠
- BatteryWidget: Custom PyQt5 widget for visualizing battery health and charge levels with animated, glowing effects. 🎨
- System Tray Integration: Uses QSystemTrayIcon for real-time notifications and quick access to app features. 🔔
- History Visualization: Integrates Pandas and Matplotlib for plotting battery percentage trends over time. 📊
- Python 3.x: Core programming language for logic and data processing. 🐍
- PyQt5: For building a responsive, cross-platform GUI with advanced animations. 🖼️
- psutil: For real-time battery status monitoring. ⚡
- wmi: For accessing Windows Management Instrumentation data. 🛠️
- ctypes: For low-level ACPI queries to retrieve detailed battery information. 🔌
- Pandas & Matplotlib: For data analysis and visualization of battery history. 📈
- BeautifulSoup: For parsing Powercfg HTML reports as a fallback data source. 📜
- Logging: Comprehensive logging with rotating file handlers for debugging and monitoring. 📝
- OS: Windows 10 or later (admin privileges required for full functionality). 🖥️
- Dependencies: Install via
requirements.txt(see Installation section). 📦 - Hardware: Laptop with a supported battery (most modern laptops are compatible). 🔋
---- > Just download and open the .EXE File from Github.
Get Battery-Z up and running in just a few steps:
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Clone the Repository:
git clone https://github.com/Mr-Muhammad-Kashan/Battery-Z.git cd Battery-Z -
Install Dependencies: Ensure you have Python 3.x installed, then run:
pip install -r requirements.txt
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Run the Application:
python battery_z.py
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Optional: Build an executable using PyInstaller for standalone distribution:
pyinstaller --onefile --icon=logo.ico battery_z.py
Note: Battery-Z requires administrative privileges for certain low-level operations (e.g., ACPI queries). Run the app as an administrator for full functionality. 🛡️
Battery-Z is intuitive and packed with features to make battery management a breeze:
- Launch the App: Start Battery-Z to see a sleek dashboard with real-time battery stats. 🚀
- Monitor Health: View battery health, cycle count, and estimated lifespan in the Health Check section. 📊
- Check History: Open the Battery History dialog to visualize percentage trends over time. 📉
- Apply Tips: Browse optimization tips to extend your battery’s life. 💡
- Customize: Switch between Dark and Light themes via the View menu. 🌙☀️
- Calibrate: Use the Cycle Count Calibration dialog if automatic cycle detection is uncertain. ⚙️
- Stay Notified: Receive system tray alerts for low battery, poor health, or high temperatures. 🔔
Battery-Z is an open-source project, and we welcome contributions from the community! Here’s how you can help:
- Report Bugs: Found an issue? Open a detailed bug report on the Issues page. 🐞
- Suggest Features: Have an idea to make Battery-Z even better? Share it in the Issues section. 💡
- Submit Pull Requests: Fork the repo, make your changes, and submit a pull request. Ensure your code follows PEP 8 guidelines and includes tests. 🛠️
- Improve Documentation: Help enhance this README or add in-code documentation for better clarity. 📝
- Fork the repository and create a new branch (
feature/your-feature-nameorbugfix/issue-number). - Ensure your changes are well-documented and tested.
- Submit a pull request with a clear description of your changes and their purpose.
- Follow the Code of Conduct to maintain a respectful and inclusive community. 🤝
- Muhammad Kashan Tariq: The creator and lead developer, pouring ❤️ into every line of code.
- Open-Source Community: For inspiring tools and libraries that made Battery-Z possible. 🌍
- Users: For trusting Battery-Z to care for your laptop’s battery. You’re the reason we keep going! 😊
Have questions or want to connect? Reach out to the creator:
- GitHub: Mr-Muhammad-Kashan
- LinkedIn: Muhammad Kashan Tariq
- Support: Open an issue or join the Discussions page. 📩
Want to show some love? Buy me a coffee ☕ to support the project!
Battery-Z: Powering your laptop with insights and care. Let’s keep your battery thriving! ✨