steamvrbattery

Basic CLI SteamVR/OpenVR gamepad battery display.

SteamVR doesn't have a way of dispalying gamepad's battery percentage without putting on the headset which is why this utility was made.

Requirements

• Windows or Linux 64-bit
• Visual C++ 2022 redists on Windows
• SteamVR open in background

CLI arguments

• --help or -? : Shows help prompt
• --interval <miliseconds> or -i <miliseconds> : Changes battery charge display update interval (default 1000ms)
• --verbose or -v : Enables verbose output

Troubleshooting

./steamvrbattery: error while loading shared libraries: libopenvr_api.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Copying the OpenVR library binary to /usr/local/lib should fix the error:

sudo cp libopenvr_api.so /usr/local/lib/
sudo ldconfig

Building

Windows:

Built and tested with Visual C++ 2022

Open the solution file in Visual Studio and build it from that or open the clone directory in Visual C++ command prompt and run msbuild

Compiled program will be in x64\Debug or x64\Release directory

Linux:

Built and tested with G++ 6.3.0

Run build_linux64.sh bash script and the compiled program will be in out/ directory

License

steamvrbattery is MIT licensed.