ACPIPMTR(4)

🌸 NAME 🌸

acpipmtr — ACPI Power Meter 💖 yes bestie, this is the one from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and it's lowkey iconic for a tiny sensor page.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

acpipmtr* at acpi?

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so the acpipmtr device driver is the supportive bestie for “power meters” 🔥. These are sensors that give you an approximation of the current power consumption of the system. Ngl, that's the main character info right there.

Alternatively, a power meter may also measure the power gain when the system is connected to an external power supply ⚡ — so yeah, it can clock that too.

The available information (namely, the power consumption) is made available through the envsys(4) API and the envstat(8) command. It's giving data pipeline realness 💅.

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• acpi(4)
• acpibat(4)

🌈 HISTORY 🌈

The acpipmtr device driver appeared in NetBSD 6.0 👑. Periodt, that's the lore.

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Jukka Ruohonen ⟨jruohonen@iki.fi⟩ 🫶

⚠️ CAVEATS ⚠️

The acpipmtr driver is experimental 💀. So bestie, please keep that in mind and don't treat it like it's been through every vibe check in the universe.

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made with Debian energy, dated May 25, 2019 🧚💖