Is there any way to remotely get a low battery notification for my Steam Deck? I don’t use it every day, and batteries don’t like to sit on a charger continuously, so it might sit idle for a couple days, (relatively) slowly losing charge.

I have the Steam App on my phone, and Valve has my email address. It would be great if the Steam Deck could send out an SOS before it dies.

  • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 days ago

    I decided to Take One More Step here and go poke around the plugins. AutoSuspend seems to be the closest match, it’s able to make an audible noise and send a toast. There doesn’t appear to be anything that has yet been built to get a notification to a remote device.

    With one slightly weird exception

    KDE connect is installed by default on your deck, and has the ability to pass notifications to a connected device. It would technically be possible to permanently Bluetooth connect the deck to another device to facilitate remote notifications, but this would be expensive battery-wise and probably defeat the purpose of having the notifications in the first place

    • spizzat2@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, I was worried about the battery drain of monitoring the battery, but I figured I’d ask in case there was a built-in solution.

      Thanks for looking through the plug-ins while I was sleeping. I’ll take a look at Autosuspend.