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Low battery notification requrst (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there any way to remotely get a low battery notification for my Steam Deck? I don't use it every day, and batteries don't like to sit on a charger continuously, so it might sit idle for a couple days, (relatively) slowly losing charge.

I have the Steam App on my phone, and Valve has my email address. It would be great if the Steam Deck could send out an SOS before it dies.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There might be a Decky plugin that allows you to send alerts likes that.

Edit: here’s the plugins list.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I decided to Take One More Step here and go poke around the plugins. AutoSuspend seems to be the closest match, it's able to make an audible noise and send a toast. There doesn't appear to be anything that has yet been built to get a notification to a remote device.

With one slightly weird exception

KDE connect is installed by default on your deck, and has the ability to pass notifications to a connected device. It would technically be possible to permanently Bluetooth connect the deck to another device to facilitate remote notifications, but this would be expensive battery-wise and probably defeat the purpose of having the notifications in the first place

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I was worried about the battery drain of monitoring the battery, but I figured I'd ask in case there was a built-in solution.

Thanks for looking through the plug-ins while I was sleeping. I'll take a look at Autosuspend.