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Your power manager should do it for you automatically if configured properly.  What DE/WM are you using?

The info from the x-session needs to be available to the service script.
So you might run this as a script at your x-session login:

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echo 'export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS='$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS > /tmp/dsba
chmod +x /tmp/dsba

And in the service script run /tmp/dsba before sending out the notification

artist

Hi all, I have this bash script below that I have turned into a runit service called batnotify, which works fine when I call it from the terminal (very essentially it notifies me if the battery level is lower than 15%). Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work as a runit service (it simply hits 15% and then turns off). I have tried removing the break statement in the while loop, I've tried calling exec or not, I've tried calling the notify-send and sleep and cat commands directly from /usr/bin and there has been no luck so far. Any insights into how I might get this working would be greatly appreciated:

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#!/bin/sh
while [ true ] ; do
	PWRLVL=$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/capacity)
        if [ $PWRLVL -le 15 ] ; then
            exec notify-send "Battery is at 15%!!";
            break;
        else
            sleep 15s;
        fi
done

In my opinion you don't need to make it a runit service ( and pointless since dunst depends on Xorg ), just start the shell script when your window manager starts, either in the .xinitrc file if you use startx(1) or whatever mechanism your window manager uses to start.

below is a part of my xinitrc file:

dunst &
$HOME/.bin/notify_battery.sh &

Thank you for that, and yes I've tried it from within my .xinitrc file where it works... but only on startup when the battery is at or below 15%. When I've left it on  with the battery hovering around 15% power, it fails to launch again once it drops from 16% to 15%, which is when I'd like dunst to notify me.

I believe this has to do with dunst relying on dbus (for some reason...), so I will be integrating both your and Artist's recommendations later on tonight and record my findings here. To be clear, my batnotify script now looks like so, and will be called from in my .xinitrc :

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#!/bin/sh

echo 'export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS='$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS > /tmp/dsba;
chmod +x /tmp/dsba;
/tmp/dbsa;

while [ true ] ; do
	PWRLVL=$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/capacity)
        if [ $PWRLVL -le 15 ] ; then
            exec notify-send "Battery is at 15%!!";
            break;
        else
            sleep 15s;
        fi
done