i3status says "No battery"

[StephanMeijer]

i3status displays No battery, while acpi displays that there is a battery plugged in (and there actually is).

i3status --version displays i3status 2.9 (2015-03-22) © 2008-2012 Michael Stapelberg and contributors

i3status displays:

i3status: trying to auto-detect output_format setting
i3status: auto-detected "term"
no IPv6 | 144.3 GiB | DHCP: yes | VPN: no | W: (046% at Burchtridder) 192.168.178.21 | E: down | No battery | 0.04 | 2015-10-27 09:09:55

acpi displays Battery 0: Charging, 8%, 00:39:05 until charged

[Airblader]

Do you have the right path set to your battery in the i3status config?

[jirimedved]

I have the path for example -> path = "/sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/uevent"

[Airblader]

Well, is it the correct path? Does it exist? Or should it read …/BAT0/…?

[StephanMeijer]

I'm sorry for my late response.

Correct path to my uevent-file is /sys/class/power_supply/C239/uevent. After editing file $HOME/.i3status.conf and setting the path, i3status seems recognize my battery.

I'm sorry I wasted your time with asking why it did not work. Thanks for your help.