acpibat(4)

acpibat4

Acpi control method battery

Usage

acpibat* at acpi?

Overview

The acpibat driver supports the ACPI Control Method Battery interface between the battery and the host. Information about the battery, such as capacity, recharge rate, voltage, and serial number, is available through this driver. Battery status is updated through an event triggered when a battery changes state (such as starting to charge) and, as a failsafe if the system does not support passing such events, every 10 seconds. Battery status can be monitored using sysctl(8) or sensorsd(8).

Releases

41 releases since OpenBSD 4.1; the text changed 3 times.

  1. 4.1
  2. 4.2–5.3
  3. 5.4–6.0
  4. 6.1–8.0

History

The acpibat driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.8.

Authors

The acpibat driver was written by Marco Peereboom ⟨[email protected]⟩.

Bugs

Some systems do not propagate battery insertion up to the driver.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.