I played around with several udev rules and inspected the upower source code. It appears that the kernel (in my case 3.7.0-7-generic) reports the device with the subsystem 'power_supply' with type 'Battery':
Dec 31 12:39:33 krijg kernel: [117903.350857] power_supply hid-00:07:61:F7:60:01-battery: driver failed to report `capacity' property: -5
Dec 31 12:39:38 krijg kernel: [117908.343434] power_supply hid-00:07:61:F7:60:01-battery: driver failed to report `capacity' property: -5
Dec 31 12:39:38 krijg kernel: [117908.364035] hid-generic 0005:046D:B309.0015: unknown main item tag 0x0
Dec 31 12:39:38 krijg kernel: [117908.404078] input: Logitech diNovo Edge as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.6/2-1.6:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:35/input32
Dec 31 12:39:38 krijg kernel: [117908.404346] hid-generic 0005:046D:B309.0015: input,hidraw0: BLUETOOTH HID v1.1b Mouse [Logitech diNovo Edge] on C4:85:08:47:23:C6
Reading the source code for ./linux/up-device-supply.c, it seems that upower doesn't expect CSR devices to be in the kernel, and therefore setting the kind as UP_DEVICE_KIND_BATTERY.
A udev rule like the following doesn't convince upower otherwise:
I played around with several udev rules and inspected the upower source code. It appears that the kernel (in my case 3.7.0-7-generic) reports the device with the subsystem 'power_supply' with type 'Battery':
Dec 31 12:39:33 krijg kernel: [117903.350857] power_supply hid-00: 07:61:F7: 60:01-battery: driver failed to report `capacity' property: -5 07:61:F7: 60:01-battery: driver failed to report `capacity' property: -5 B309.0015: unknown main item tag 0x0 pci0000: 00/0000: 00:1d.0/ usb2/2- 1/2-1.6/ 2-1.6:1. 0/bluetooth/ hci0/hci0: 35/input32 B309.0015: input,hidraw0: BLUETOOTH HID v1.1b Mouse [Logitech diNovo Edge] on C4:85:08:47:23:C6
Dec 31 12:39:38 krijg kernel: [117908.343434] power_supply hid-00:
Dec 31 12:39:38 krijg kernel: [117908.364035] hid-generic 0005:046D:
Dec 31 12:39:38 krijg kernel: [117908.404078] input: Logitech diNovo Edge as /devices/
Dec 31 12:39:38 krijg kernel: [117908.404346] hid-generic 0005:046D:
Reading the source code for ./linux/ up-device- supply. c, it seems that upower doesn't expect CSR devices to be in the kernel, and therefore setting the kind as UP_DEVICE_ KIND_BATTERY.
A udev rule like the following doesn't convince upower otherwise:
KERNEL= ="hid-00: 07:61:F7: 60:01-battery" , SUBSYSTEM= ="power_ supply" , ENV{UPOWER_ VENDOR} ="Logitech, Inc.", ENV{UPOWER_ PRODUCT} ="diNovo Edge", ENV{UPOWER_ BATTERY_ TYPE}=" keyboard"