---
id: battery
title: Battery
sidebar_label: Battery
---

## What

:::caution
The segment is not supported and automatically disabled on Windows when WSL 1 is detected. Works fine with WSL 2.
:::

Battery displays the remaining power percentage for your battery.

## Sample Configuration

```json
{
  "type": "battery",
  "style": "powerline",
  "powerline_symbol": "\uE0B0",
  "foreground": "#193549",
  "background": "#ffeb3b",
  "background_templates": [
    "{{if eq \"Charging\" .State.String}}#40c4ff{{end}}",
    "{{if eq \"Discharging\" .State.String}}#ff5722{{end}}",
    "{{if eq \"Full\" .State.String}}#4caf50{{end}}"
  ],
  "template": " {{ if not .Error }}{{ .Icon }}{{ .Percentage }}{{ end }}\uF295 ",
  "properties": {
    "discharging_icon": "\uE231 ",
    "charging_icon": "\uE234 ",
    "charged_icon": "\uE22F "
  }
}
```

## Properties

| Name                | Type      | Description                                                                                   |
| ------------------- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `display_error`     | `boolean` | show the error context when failing to retrieve the battery information - defaults to `false` |
| `charging_icon`     | `string`  | icon to display when charging - defaults to empty                                             |
| `discharging_icon`  | `string`  | icon to display when discharging - defaults to empty                                          |
| `charged_icon`      | `string`  | icon to display when fully charged - defaults to empty                                        |
| `not_charging_icon` | `string`  | icon to display when fully charged - defaults to empty                                        |

## Template ([info][templates])

:::note default template

```template
{{ if not .Error }}{{ .Icon }}{{ .Percentage }}{{ end }}{{ .Error }}
```

:::

### Properties

| Name             | Type      | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| ---------------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `.State`         | `struct`  | the battery state, has a `.String` function                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| `.Current`       | `float64` | Current (momentary) charge rate (in mW).                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| `.Full`          | `float64` | Last known full capacity (in mWh)                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| `.Design`        | `float64` | Reported design capacity (in mWh)                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| `.ChargeRate`    | `float64` | Current (momentary) charge rate (in mW). It is always non-negative, consult .State field to check whether it means charging or discharging (on some systems this might be always `0` if the battery doesn't support it)               |
| `.Voltage`       | `float64` | Current voltage (in V)                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| `.DesignVoltage` | `float64` | Design voltage (in V). Some systems (e.g. macOS) do not provide a separate value for this. In such cases, or if getting this fails, but getting `Voltage` succeeds, this field will have the same value as `Voltage`, for convenience |
| `.Percentage`    | `float64` | the current battery percentage                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| `.Error`         | `string`  | the error in case fetching the battery information failed                                                                                                                                                                             |
| `.Icon`          | `string`  | the icon based on the battery state                                                                                                                                                                                                   |

[colors]: /docs/configuration/colors
[battery]: https://github.com/distatus/battery/blob/master/battery.go#L78
[templates]: /docs/configuration/templates