Bluetooth mouse battery reported as "Extra" battery

[Jennifer Richards]

In several places, the battery status for my Logitech M557 Bluetooth mouse is being incorrectly reported as a generic battery or laptop battery.

This shows up in two places related to gnome-power-manager. In the System Settings/Power screen, under the heading "Batteries" there are two bars, one for "Main" and one for "Extra." The "Main" corresponds to the laptop battery and the "Extra" corresponds to the mouse battery. I expected to see a separate entry for the mouse, or at least a more descriptive label than "Extra."

In the gnome-power-statistics interface, the mouse battery appears as "Laptop battery" with a model "Bluetooth Mouse M557." It should appear as a "Mouse battery: or "Bluetooth Mouse battery" or something similar.

I am not certain that this is the appropriate package for the bug report because I do not know which is responsible for the initial error or whether it is an independent error in several packages. If I am in the wrong place, I would appreciate help routing this to the correct place. This (or a similar) bug also shows up in indicator-power. Let me know if I should post a bug separately for that package---I am holding off because it seems possible that is a knock-on effect of the problem here and I don't want to spam the bug reports.

Version Information:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.10
Release: 14.10

$ apt-cache policy gnome-power-manager
gnome-power-manager:
  Installed: 3.8.2-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.8.2-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.8.2-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

In case it is useful, here is the output of upower --dump:

$ upower --dump
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_ADP0
  native-path: ADP0
  power supply: yes
  updated: Tue 11 Nov 2014 10:17:11 AM EST (1807 seconds ago)
  has history: no
  has statistics: no
  line-power
    online: yes

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path: BAT0
  vendor: SANYO
  model: Dell
  serial: 1450
  power supply: yes
  updated: Tue 11 Nov 2014 10:46:56 AM EST (22 seconds ago)
  has history: yes
  has statistics: yes
  battery
    present: yes
    rechargeable: yes
    state: charging
    energy: 46.6125 Wh
    energy-empty: 0 Wh
    energy-full: 46.8525 Wh
    energy-full-design: 56.025 Wh
    energy-rate: 2.385 W
    voltage: 8.682 V
    time to full: 6.0 minutes
    percentage: 99%
    capacity: 83.6278%
  History (rate):
    1415720816 2.385 charging
    1415720786 2.468 charging
    1415720756 2.212 charging
    1415720726 2.400 charging

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_hid_00o1fo20oe5o4cob0_battery
  native-path: hid-00:1f:20:e5:4c:b0-battery
  model: Bluetooth Mouse M557
  power supply: no
  updated: Tue 11 Nov 2014 10:47:11 AM EST (7 seconds ago)
  has history: yes
  has statistics: yes
  battery
    present: yes
    rechargeable: yes
    state: discharging
    energy: 0 Wh
    energy-empty: 0 Wh
    energy-full: 0 Wh
    energy-full-design: 0 Wh
    energy-rate: 0 W
    percentage: 100%
    capacity: 100%

Daemon:
  daemon-version: 0.9.23
  can-suspend: yes
  can-hibernate: yes
  on-battery: no
  on-low-battery: no
  lid-is-closed: no
  lid-is-present: yes
  is-docked: no

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Martin Weißhaupt (mweisshaupt)]

I have the same problem with a different mouse...

[Jorge Juan (jjchico)]

Same problem in Ubuntu 14.04 with a Dell XPS 13 9333. Extrangely, before upgrading to 14.04 from the original stock 12.04 Ubuntu version shipped with the computer, the mouse battery was reported correctly (as a mouse).

Mouse is Dell Travel Mouse WM524

===============================================

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04

===============================================

# upower --dump
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_ADP0
  native-path: ADP0
  power supply: yes
  updated: mar 20 ene 2015 15:44:41 CET (1558 seconds ago)
  has history: no
  has statistics: no
  line-power
    online: yes

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path: BAT0
  vendor: SIMPLO
  model: Dell
  serial: 2959
  power supply: yes
  updated: mar 20 ene 2015 16:10:20 CET (19 seconds ago)
  has history: yes
  has statistics: yes
  battery
    present: yes
    rechargeable: yes
    state: charging
    energy: 33,1076 Wh
    energy-empty: 0 Wh
    energy-full: 55,944 Wh
    energy-full-design: 55,944 Wh
    energy-rate: 17,9894 W
    voltage: 8,036 V
    time to full: 1,3 hours
    percentage: 59%
    capacity: 100%
    technology: lithium-ion
  History (charge):
    1421766620 59,000 charging
    1443692692 80,000 discharging
  History (rate):
    1421766620 17,989 charging
    1421766590 18,100 charging
    1421766560 18,256 charging
    1421766530 18,271 charging
    1443692698 8,939 discharging
    1443692696 9,805 discharging
    1443692694 17,242 discharging
    1443692692 12,735 discharging

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_hid_00o1fo20oe8o4co97_battery
  native-path: hid-00:1f:20:e8:4c:97-battery
  model: Dell Travel Mouse WM524
  power supply: no
  updated: mar 20 ene 2015 16:10:33 CET (6 seconds ago)
  has history: yes
  has statistics: yes
  battery
    present: yes
    rechargeable: yes
    state: discharging
    energy: 0 Wh
    energy-empty: 0 Wh
    energy-full: 0 Wh
    energy-full-design: 0 Wh
    energy-rate: 0 W
    percentage: 88%
    capacity: 100%

Daemon:
  daemon-version: 0.9.23
  can-suspend: yes
  can-hibernate: yes
  on-battery: no
  on-low-battery: no
  lid-is-closed: no
  lid-is-present: yes
  is-docked: no

===============================================

# apt-cache policy upower
upower:
  Instalados: 0.9.23-2ubuntu1
  Candidato: 0.9.23-2ubuntu1
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 0.9.23-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

===============================================

# apt-cache policy gnome-power-manager
gnome-power-manager:
  Instalados: 3.8.2-1ubuntu2
  Candidato: 3.8.2-1ubuntu2
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 3.8.2-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://a...

[Jorge Juan (jjchico)]

Problem solved in 14.04.1 when reverted to original kernel:

$ uname -a
Linux jjc-xps 3.13.0-44-generic #73-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 16 00:22:43 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Problem happens when using updated kernel also in the repositories:

Linux jjc-xps 3.16.0-29-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 16 20:54:13 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So problem may be kernel-related or upower/gnome-power-manager not understanding new kernels.

Previous report was generated with 3.16.0-29-generic #39.

People with 14.10 may try to boot with a 3.13 kernel and report here.

[Francescodario Cuzzocrea (bosconovic)]

Same thing for me withh my DELL WM525 bluetooth mouse, on ubuntu 15.04 kernel 3.18

[Ilya (ppp0-at)]

Same thing with Bluetooth mouse Logitech m557 with ubuntu 14.10

[Francescodario Cuzzocrea (bosconovic)]

Same thing on 15.04 with 3.19 kernel

[Astor (astor-di)]

Watch my last comment here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upower/+bug/1449051
Solved for 15.04