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New input plugin: `input.upower`

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#19,245 opened on Jul 8, 2026

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Use Case

Monitoring laptop batteries and batteries of connected peripherals. Upower is the standard way of reporting battery information in Linux. UPS devices might also report their level using upower but I'm not sure if it's common, I don't have any UPSs to test with.

Expected behavior

Batteries can be monitored using a upower input plugin.

Actual behavior

None, batteries need to be monitored using manual workarounds like the exec input plugin.

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