Feature Request: Power Status

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Curtis Allworth

• July 16, 2019 17:21

I could really use the ability to determine if a computer is on AC power or battery. This way I could avoid pushing certain updates to machines that are on battery.

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  Avi Solomon

  • July 17, 2019 13:26

  I've seen some articles on WMI queries for battery. They may be, technically, "unsupported" queries. Take a look at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/using-windows-powershell-to-determine-if-a-laptop-is-on-battery-power/

  Very interesting. You can use WMI to get the BatteryStatus=1 (but some laptops may discharge even when plugged in). The article recommends using PowerOnline instead, but it's unsupported. See how those work. Hopefully that gets you in the right direction.

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  Wei

  • July 17, 2019 15:34

  $Is_Laptop_Plugged = (Get-WmiObject -Class BatteryStatus -Namespace root\wmi).PowerOnline 
  
  if ($Is_Laptop_Plugged -eq $true) {
  Write-Output "The laptop is plugged in"
  }
  
  else {
  Write-Error "The laptop is on battery"
  }
  

  Just use the code above as the first step of your deployment and set the Error Mode (under Options) to "Stope Deployment with Error"

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