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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon davidwernhart

[Feature Request] Magsafe charging light orange

Open adrian70000 opened this issue 4 years ago • 11 comments

Hello,

Thanks for making this awesome tool. I use Macbook Air 2015 with a Magsafe charger. App works great and stops charging the battery but Magsafe light still remains orange instead of turning green. Is that normal?

adrian70000 avatar Dec 29 '20 00:12 adrian70000

yes it's normal. it just means that the battery is not fully charged. but there is still power running through the charger, which is used up by the components instead of charging the battery

tairasu avatar Jan 01 '21 14:01 tairasu

I think making it green should be better, or, as an option.

prakharb5 avatar Jan 02 '21 10:01 prakharb5

I think making it green should be better, or, as an option.

I could be mistaken, but my assumption is that the green/amber light in the old MagSafe connectors is triggered by battery voltage, not the OS. So, if your battery SOC is less than 8.4v (for a 2 cell config) it's likely to show as amber on the MagSafe. FWIW, there's no good way to know how much mAh is left in a battery, it's always a guesstimate based on voltage readings.

Cheule avatar Jan 15 '21 04:01 Cheule

From https://github.com/godly-devotion/charge-limiter

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I hope this clarifies :D

prakharb5 avatar Jan 15 '21 04:01 prakharb5

I stand corrected! Thanks for posting.

Cheule avatar Jan 15 '21 04:01 Cheule

@davidwernhart Can you please implement this? Sorry for pinging 😅

prakharb5 avatar Jan 15 '21 06:01 prakharb5

Following. This would be great. I also have orange light, but the app works great.

Screenshot 2021-01-16 at 23 04 00

hpapagaj avatar Jan 16 '21 22:01 hpapagaj

Any update on this? It would be great if this could be added (maybe optional) in one of the next releases. It seems like the codebase is already there? https://github.com/godly-devotion/charge-limiter

Thanks in advance!

Fenderman2 avatar Dec 22 '21 16:12 Fenderman2

This would make a huge difference! The ability to see if your charge is complete without opening the computer is incredibly convenient, and this issue is one of the only things that makes me waffle about using Al Dente!

vvalzon avatar May 20 '22 21:05 vvalzon

Bump

CollinQuiason avatar Jun 02 '22 11:06 CollinQuiason

So any reason why the code from the charge-limiter app wasn't merged?

0x3dev avatar Aug 05 '22 09:08 0x3dev

Hi everyone,

We have just released AlDente 1.20 with a new beta feature called "Control MagSafe LED" which will finally properly indicate if the Charge Limit is reached. You can read more about this feature on our blog here: https://apphousekitchen.com/feature-explanation-control-magsafe-led/

Cheers, Matthias

MatthiasKerbl avatar Jan 01 '23 17:01 MatthiasKerbl

Hi everyone,

Since we have finally implemented the features requested, I will close this issue.

Cheers, Matthias

MatthiasKerbl avatar Jan 12 '23 13:01 MatthiasKerbl