Steam Controller Battery Monitor

A lightweight, cross-platform tray icon to get information about the steam controller's battery

I don't know why there isnt a good place to get this information normally

No need to donate, though is greatly appreciated!

How To

Supported device: Steam Controller (2026). Other controllers are unsupported. Download the latest build here!

Windows

1. Extract the files and run executable
2. Observe battery percentage in tray
3. Yippee!

On Linux

1. Install libhid and Qt6 libs, if not already installed:
   • Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install libhidapi-dev libqt6core6 libqt6gui6 qt6-wayland
   • Arch: sudo pacman -S hidapi qt6-base qt6-wayland
2. Extract files and run executable
3. Observe battery percentage in tray
4. Yippee!

Compiling

Clone with submodules: git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Pixel1011/Steam-Controller-Battery-Monitor.git

Build (Linux / WSL)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config libhidapi-dev qt6-base-dev qt6-base-dev-tools
make

Build (Windows, MSYS2 UCRT64)

pacman -Syu

pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc \
          mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-hidapi \
          mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-ffmpeg \
          mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-make \
          mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-pkgconf \
          mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-ninja \
          mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-qt6-base

make

Changelog

[v1.0.0] Initial Release

TODO in future:

• battery monitoring functionality to measure capacity and battery loss over time
• with above, also add time till charged metric

I would appreciate stars, they make me happy :3c

If you find this cool, feel free to check out SteamHapticsPlayer to play audio files on your controller!