# TLP battery monitor **URL:** \ **Category:** Framework Laptop 13\ **Created:** [November 16, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/tlp-battery-monitor/11113 "2021-11-16T19:10:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quinn\_Dougherty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ac91a4/32.png) [@Quinn\_Dougherty](https://community.frame.work/u/Quinn_Dougherty)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/tlp-battery-monitor/11113/1 "2021-11-16T19:10:32Z")
Do we think the move is to use TLP? > TLP is a feature-rich command line utility for Linux, saving laptop battery power without the need to delve deeper into technical details. [https://linrunner.de/tlp/introduction.html](https://linrunner.de/tlp/introduction.html) I plan to roll [`nixos`](http://community.frame.work/t/nixos-on-the-framework-blog-review/). ---
**Author:** ![Chiraag\_Nataraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Chiraag\_Nataraj](https://community.frame.work/u/Chiraag_Nataraj)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/tlp-battery-monitor/11113/2 "2021-12-09T13:01:59Z")
Yes, TLP helped with my battery life, and I would highly recommend it. Elsewhere on this forum, people have compared `power-profiles-daemon` to TLP and found that TLP does a better job of reducing power consumption. Keep in mind that you may have to uninstall `power-profiles-daemon` on certain distros, since it may be installed by default and it _will_ conflict with TLP. ---
**Author:** ![Jason\_Hottelet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@Jason\_Hottelet](https://community.frame.work/u/Jason_Hottelet)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/tlp-battery-monitor/11113/3 "2021-12-09T14:26:09Z")
Some people recommended auto-cpufreq as well, has anyone tried both and can recommend one of the two over the other? It should be noted though that according to the documentation of auto-cpufreq, you can actually run both at the same time, so maybe that’s the best option. ---
**Author:** ![Chiraag\_Nataraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Chiraag\_Nataraj](https://community.frame.work/u/Chiraag_Nataraj)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/tlp-battery-monitor/11113/4 "2021-12-09T16:41:33Z")
Since it’s not available in the Debian repos, I haven’t (yet) tried it. TLP has given me enough battery life that I’m not particularly inclined to mess around with other stuff just yet. ---
**Author:** ![CraigO](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/craigo/32/1762_2.png) [@CraigO](https://community.frame.work/u/CraigO)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/tlp-battery-monitor/11113/5 "2021-12-09T19:20:48Z")
Thanks for this thread - installed TLP, referencing the excellent doc at [Introduction — TLP 1.5 documentation](https://linrunner.de/tlp/introduction.html). Very good info in the installation section for anyone using Ubuntu. ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_White](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@Brian\_White](https://community.frame.work/u/Brian_White)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 7:25am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/tlp-battery-monitor/11113/6 "2021-12-19T07:25:22Z")
tlp can’t control the charge thresholds, even with the 3.06 bios ``` root@fw:~# tlp-stat -b --- TLP 1.4.0 -------------------------------------------- +++ Battery Care Plugin: generic Supported features: none available +++ Battery Status: BAT1 /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/manufacturer = NVT /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/model_name = Framewo /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/cycle_count = (not supported) /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_full_design = 3572 [mAh] /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_full = 3523 [mAh] /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_now = 3523 [mAh] /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/current_now = 0 [mA] /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/status = Not charging /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_control_start_threshold = (not available) /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_control_end_threshold = (not available) Charge = 100.0 [%] Capacity = 98.6 [%] root@fw:~# ``` ---
**Author:** ![martiandeath](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/martiandeath/32/8652_2.png) [@martiandeath](https://community.frame.work/u/martiandeath)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 11:27am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/tlp-battery-monitor/11113/7 "2021-12-19T11:27:31Z")
if you do end up using tlp, there is a gui config app called tlpui thats also quite useful ---
**Author:** ![noblman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b487fb/32.png) [@noblman](https://community.frame.work/u/noblman)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/tlp-battery-monitor/11113/8 "2022-01-07T01:29:51Z")
@Quinn_Dougherty what did you end up going with? I am also running NixOS and have been running ‘auto-cpufreq’. My battery module always shows that a full charge is going to last around 6h under my regular usage. I haven’t done any further experiments. I am going to give ‘tlp’ a try and see what my battery module reports.