High powertop energy usage for tccd service and other disadvantages

[marcinwiacek]

Hallo,

I'm running Tuxedo Control Center on hardware similar to the TUXEDO InfinityBook S 14 - Gen6. My observation: powertop always show high energy usage for tccd. I could say, that this is this tool problem, but... without service I see better battery estimation time from Ubuntu.

I don't know, if you need to setup fan speed continuously, but I will suggest the following: please provide command line, which will be able to switch fans, disable camera (and maybe do other things, which are related to Clevo)... or please provide support for default Linux kernel tools for example for fan control... or please allow for setting, how often tccd service is doing something. Settings -> Global profiles settings -> Fan control is currently not working like designed and after restarting tccd service fan is always setup to default (I check it with Fn+1 and it always enables fan).

What is also currently interesting - even when I will use Settings -> Global profiles settings -> CPU Settings (deactivated) like suggested in the #132, after starting / stopping tccd service there are updated TDP settings. Because of it I will again suggest: in every profile please add this checkbox: control CPU, control brightness, control fan (user should be able to selected what is "touched" in the profile)

I know, this tool is free. I will very appreciated, if you could implement one of these things - currently there are visible some problems with setting CPU speed / TDP and setting fans (user must select default fan control or shorter battery life).

[Fuzzillogic]

For the high energy consumption, see #37 as well.

[marcinwiacek]

@Fuzzillogic , thank you

@tuxedoxt , it seems, that we have all pieces of puzzle already. will you accept for example code with tuxedo keyboard? or do you plan to change this java script code to something else? (I'm thinking, if it is possible for example add keyboard shortcut to switch among fan profiles + maybe service in c making changes according to cpu temp)