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milton rojas
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I Fixed My Windows Battery Health Dashboard and Open-Sourced It

Windows can generate a raw battery report, but it does not make laptop battery
wear easy to understand. I wanted a local tool that turns the numbers into a
quick decision view: current capacity, original design capacity, wear, charge
history, and a simple A-F health grade.

What I Fixed Before Sharing It

The first version needed cleanup. I fixed the portable setup, aligned the grade
scale with the code, corrected the discharge display, hardened Windows terminal
output, and rewrote the guide so every command matches the actual tool.

The dashboard now includes:

  • an A-F battery-health grade
  • local SQLite history
  • degradation estimates after enough snapshots exist
  • --watch and --export modes
  • an optional Groq summary

Source

The DIY source is MIT licensed:

https://github.com/thefinalmilkman/digital-downloads/tree/main/battery-dashboard-v1.1

It is a small Windows utility, not a cloud service. The battery data stays on
the machine.

Support More Small Utilities

If it saves you time and you want to support more practical local-first tools,
a $10-equivalent tip is appreciated:

Ready-to-run tipware package:

https://redkings-battery-dashboard.netlify.app

  • Base USDC: 0x0eAFF975a4823c823cfE0c77E9110Ba47291E72A
  • SOL: 9Ga6JioPVtGCiuvWfc2VCCbN61WLNCkm6S1qFRVn38sG
  • HIVE: @redkingsdesigns

I would rather release a small useful tool honestly than pretend a rough draft
is a finished product.

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