Page Comparison

The roPowerManager object is used to report the battery state of the device.

Object Creation: The roPowerManager object is created as follows:

CreateObject("roPowerManager")

ifPowerManager

GetPowerSource() As String

Returns either "Battery", "AC", or "Ethernet", depending on the power source.

GetBatteryStatus() As Object

Returns the following values:

• state string: Returns the device battery status as either "charging", "discharging", "charge-complete", or "charge-fault"

• soc_percent int: The level of charge of the battery as a percentage.

• hardware_version string: The hardware version number

PowerOff()

Indicates that the charger should cut the power

SetPowerSwitchMode(as A String)

Takes either "hard" or "soft"

GetPowerSwitchMode() As String

Returns whether it is set to "hard" or "soft"

ifMessagePort

SetPort(as A Object)

Which message port should be used to get messages from the power manager.