Modified mintypi battery warning Help

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Modified mintypi battery warning Help

Post by manabana9 » Mon Aug 19, 2019 5:25 pm

I decided to make a modified mintypi without the custom pcb using a adafruit joybonnet with wires for a 2.2 ILI9341 screen directly soldered to the joybonnet. At first, I wrapped the whole thing around a portable charger, but after a brief amount of time, a "battery level low" warning popped up swiftly followed by a 60 second countdown and then a shutdown. At first I thought the issue was with the battery, because when I turned the raspberry pi back on, everything was normal until 5~ minutes later the same warning followed by a timer appeared. In order to solve the problem, i tried soldered on a microlipo and a https://www.adafruit.com/product/2011 battery to the microlipo. Again, the same warning popped up. So I did some research and I assume the warning is because I used a 2000 mah battery. how could I change/delete the battery warning?

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Re: Modified mintypi battery warning Help

Post by Helder » Tue Aug 20, 2019 3:04 am

It's the battery monitoring script that you're using is kicking in the safe shutdown. What are you using to monitor the battery voltage?
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Re: Modified mintypi battery warning Help

Post by manabana9 » Tue Aug 20, 2019 2:01 pm

Helder wrote:
Tue Aug 20, 2019 3:04 am
It's the battery monitoring script that you're using is kicking in the safe shutdown. What are you using to monitor the battery voltage?
To be quite honest, I don't know what you mean by this. What should monitoring the battery right now is the built in script by hoolyhoo, but I do not have the hardware for the battery monitor that is built into the custom pcb for mintypi2.0. Is that necessary, or can I bypass the Battery monitor/disable it

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Re: Modified mintypi battery warning Help

Post by manabana9 » Tue Aug 20, 2019 6:28 pm

could I just delete the MintyBatteryMonitor.py file as a temporary fix?

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Re: Modified mintypi battery warning Help

Post by Helder » Wed Aug 21, 2019 3:15 pm

You can and it will likely give some error message but you can ignore it. I think that file is called in the rc.local file which you can edit using the SSH terminal, I have a feeling you don't know about SSH either so go have a read in your favorite search engine or the Retropie Wiki and once you get it going come back and I can explain how to disable it properly.
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