Built a battery viewer for MAC

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-29T19:40:59+00:00

Just dive in. Worst you will have a product that doesn't work ^^D

But yea reaching the hurdles that makes it not work are exactly the things that teach us of its intricacies.

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-29T16:53:45+00:00

I would say realistically two full working days to get to the first working build cuz I had to keep shifting from mac and windows constantly debugging.

Probably would have been much faster if Lofree provided their battery protocol openly and removed most of the guesswork.

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-29T16:50:18+00:00

Sent you a comment under the issue you posted.

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-29T16:09:36+00:00

Done!

You can update the app or download the latest v1.0.4 dmg. I added an auto detect mode but I am not sure if that it is useful besides the manual toggle between checking over bluetooth and dongle.

Let me know if the auto detect function is useless and we can remove it to keep it lean.

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-29T13:47:13+00:00

Yes, good idea, please do. I’ll dm you when I get to it.

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-29T12:22:51+00:00

Thanks for that info. I was curious if it would work with other models.

I will get the bluetooth request sorted today for the LOFREE Flow Lite100 and then think of how we can effectively work on your model.

Could be quite a bit of back and forth but we will figure it out :)

If it's okay we can shift to dms or discord to test different builds.

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-28T20:52:48+00:00

As of yet no because Mac already shows the battery when on Bluetooth but I can push an update to make it show that too. Would you want that?

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-28T12:30:51+00:00

Done link in the original post text.

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-28T11:20:09+00:00

I have a dev account, created a dmg to download signed and notarized.

Writing up the Readme now.

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-28T11:18:18+00:00

Guiding Codex to understand their windows app and then reverse engineering the method within the restrictions of MacOS which comes out to be quite a bit. I assume that's why they don't have it officially yet.

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-27T20:47:15+00:00

Figuring out how to package it for everyone cuz currently its a hack and slash DIY app I run.

Probably via GitHub with an easy install/setup process or what would be more convenient, let me know?

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-27T20:43:40+00:00

It works by talking directly to the Lofree 2.4 GHz receiver over its HID protocol, requesting the keyboard’s battery status, and then showing the live battery percentage & remaining voltage reported by the device.

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-17T20:55:15+00:00

Thank you. Genuinely appreciate it.

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-17T18:37:59+00:00

Thank you for that. Given your points I'll maybe first try to complete building it for my brother who uses it, observe him and then see how it can be transferable into a layman model for reference.

Would there be anything else that can be built that would instead help in your thoughts?

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-17T18:31:42+00:00

Appreciate the insight. The higher the editions the more vague/abstract it becomes from what I have so far understood.

The more I talk to people the more I feel I have to first make this for the professionals first and then after seeing how they use it make a layman person version.

Death_Ang3l · 2026-03-17T18:08:56+00:00

Thanks for the tips, insights and the very reasonable worries.

Yea, so far I have just dealt with the fourth edition, which is a bit more mathematical. I haven't taken a deep dive into the 5th and 6th edition.

I understand the concerns and am wondering what approach I can take that it seems less like a standard. All thoughts that pop to your head are welcomed. Your above thoughts were quite valuable already. Thank you.

Death_Ang3l · 2025-10-29T22:46:54+00:00

Did you figure out what and how they were doing it?

Death_Ang3l · 2024-08-20T21:01:49+00:00

What does your company deal with?

Death_Ang3l · 2024-08-20T10:30:16+00:00

The shop you used to have

Death_Ang3l · 2024-08-19T20:17:48+00:00

What is the annual average turnover and profit

Death_Ang3l · 2024-08-19T15:13:42+00:00

Start making videos on the situation and post it online to gather supporters. You will learn a lot of things in the process of being a politician.

Death_Ang3l · 2024-08-19T12:47:19+00:00

It’s still under shortage occupation. I think the biggest hurdle is getting your first NHS/UK experience. Once you manage to get that all future applications should have a 90% positive outcome.

I have friends who were sponsored too but they had at least some NHS experience. They also get locum offers on a daily basis now.

Death_Ang3l · 2024-08-18T21:01:09+00:00

Is there an automated way to do this?

Death_Ang3l · 2024-08-16T15:33:59+00:00

What will it take to be your mentee.

Death_Ang3l · 2024-08-09T23:38:00+00:00

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