Reporting / Collecting Updated Battery Conditions

I don't have any duff batteries around me, but what happens when you type the following on one that does.

printf "get State:/IOKit/PowerSources/InternalBattery-0
d.show" | scutil

or

pmset -g batt

sean's method was something I have never seen before. But it seems it would work to make an Extension Attribute that reports the battery health.

#!/bin/bash
batteryHealth=$(printf "get State:/IOKit/PowerSources/InternalBattery-0
d.show" | scutil | awk '/BatteryHealth/ {print $3}')
echo "<result>$batteryHealth</result>"

Not sure if its ok to bump an old thread but the above Extension Attribute did not seem to work for me on 10.10 so I tinkered together this.

#!/bin/sh
batteryHealth=$(/usr/sbin/system_profiler -xml SPPowerDataType -detailLevel mini | grep -A 1 <key>sppower_battery_health</key>  | awk '/string/' | sed 's/.*<string>(.*)</string>.*/1/')
if [ "$batteryHealth" == "" ]; then
echo "<result>Not present</result>"
else
echo "<result>$batteryHealth</result>"
fi

@daviddejong - Your script works great. Do you happen to know all the results possible? (or a way I can find that out) I didn't come up with anything out on the inter webs. As far as I know these are the results:

"Not Present", "Good", "Check Battery"

Is "Poor Permanent" one as well or was that replaced by other verbiage? Another other result possibilities?

@benducklow I'm looking into this now too. I have found "Fair" can be added to the list.

Cool. Thanks @gskibum. I haven't come across that one as a result (yet).

@benducklow

I'm guessing it's the same as Yosemite.

OS X Yosemite: Battery conditions

OS X Yosemite: If your battery’s status is “Not Charging”

Normal
Replace Soon
Replace Now
Service Battery
Not Charging

This is the attribute that works nicely for us:

#!/bin/sh
#Determine model
model=`system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Model Name:" | cut -d ' ' -f 9`

if [[ "$model" =~ "Book" ]]; then

#Determine battery condition
result=`system_profiler SPPowerDataType | grep "Condition" | cut -d ':' -f 2 | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//'`
    echo "<result>$result</result>"
else
    echo "<result>Not A MacBook</result>"
fi

Possible Values for Sierra:
Sierra Battery Status