battery: Not working for M2 Max MacBook Pro 16 inch

What is the issue? (required) The app fails to launch on my M2 Max MacBook Pro with the following error:

Error installing battery limiter: Command failed: ./applet/bin/sh: ./applet: Bad CPU type in executable

What exactly did you do to produce the issue? (required) Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Install battery via Homebrew: brew install battery. Installation succeeds.
  2. Open /Applications/Battery.app.
  3. Observe “Bad CPU type in executable” error.

Expected behavior (required) The application should launch without error.

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Error logs (optional) The log for ~/.battery/battery.log does not exist. Here is the log for ~/.battery/gui.log:

Starting tray app
Tray app boot complete
Triggering boot-time auto-update
Is installed? 
false
Installing battery for tylermilner...
Update/install error: 
Error: Command failed: ./applet
/bin/sh: ./applet: Bad CPU type in executable

Update process complete
Error getting battery status: 
Error: Command failed: PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/battery battery status
/bin/bash: battery: command not found

Additional context (optional) Add any other context about the problem here.

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created a year ago
  • Comments: 22 (11 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

just mention, this app is working on a macbook air m2, for me.