Power Log

Records power-on and power-off history, even in the event of a power failure.

This is useful for *NIX machines without an UPS.

You can monitor if your PC is used when you are away.

⭐ Features

⚡️ Record power-on and shutdown

🔌 Record power failures

📜 Log in CSV format

⬆️ Easy updates

🤓 Features for nerds

🪶 Dependencies ≅ 0

The required packages are already installed in most Linux distributions.

🛡️ Protected from process killing!

Simply follow these instructions.

🔥 Usable everywhere

You can use in proprietary Linux OS, where you can not install custom packages.

💪 Resilient to updates

You can update the program while it is running.

⚙️ Installation

Check if you already have the following packages

• bash
• coreutils
• cron (recommended)
• procps
• wget OR curl (recommended at least one to download updates)

Download the script

If you have wget:

wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TonyWhite/PowerLog/main/power-log" -O "power-log"

If you have curl:

curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TonyWhite/PowerLog/main/power-log" -o "power-log"

Install the script with root privileges

sudo bash power-log --install

🛠️ Configure

Open cron

sudo crontab -e

Add the rule

* * * * * bash -c ' for i in {1..60} ; do power-log --single ; sleep 1s ; done '

And this is the better choice with protection from accidentally kill

🚀 Usage

Open /usr/share/power-log/power.log with Calc of LibreOffice or OpenOffice. The format is CSV (Comma Separated Values).

Enjoy the logs 🪵🦫