Hey all, just wondering how the battery life is after you’ve had it for a while? I’m getting one soon and wondered if it would have a noticeable impact on the battery if it was on a dock for most of the time.

Cheers

  • xep
    18•1 month ago

    The deck has passthrough input and you can set a charge limit of 50% if it’s docked most of the time to reduce battery wear.

    • @ReducedArc
      5•1 month ago

      Is this new? I tried to figure out how to do that a while ago but couldn’t find anything about it

      • xep
        7•1 month ago

        Passthrough input, or charge limiting? Charge limiting was added after release but that was a while ago.

        • @ReducedArc
          8•1 month ago

          The charge limiting, is it in the settings somewhere? I haven’t seen anything about it

            • @ReducedArc
              5•1 month ago

              Ahh excellent, I’ll definitely be checking that out. Thank you!

            • The Hobbyist
              2•1 month ago

              Legend, I have been looking for that for a while, and it is the cherry on top that it does not require booting into the uefi!

            • @takeheart
              2•1 month ago

              Oh man, thanks for linking this. I’m glad there’s someone out there writing plug-ins but Valve should really provide this out of box.

              • FubarberryMEnglish
                3•1 month ago

                Valve is doing a decent job of replacing plugins with stock functionality. Progress is a bit slower there than I would like, but many of my decky plugins have been partially or fully replaced.

                Some replaced plugins off the top of my head

                • Animation changer (although I still recommend the plugin for easier downloads of community boot videos)
                • Vibrant deck
                • Decky Recorder
                • Bluetooth (let you quickly reconnect to BT devices, but the QAM menu now lists BT devices directly)
                • Controller tools (let you see controller battery levels, which is now in QAM)
                • That plugin for managing what BLE devices would wake the deck

                and probably some more I’m probably forgetting.

                • @takeheart
                  3•1 month ago

                  Yeah and the fact that they allow plugins in the first place is great. It’s a great way to gauge what’s in demand and how it could be implemented. Reminds me of games that allow modding/addons and often key features are later added officially.

      • @Carnelian
        1•1 month ago

        Also fwiw most devices manage this automatically and you do not need to concern yourself with maintaining any given battery percentage