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title: Plugin: UPower
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## Introduction

This plugin is used to ensure that some updates are not done on battery power.

## Vendor ID Security

This protocol does not create a device and thus requires no vendor ID set.

## External Interface Access

This plugin requires access to the dbus interface `org.freedesktop.UPower`.

## Version Considerations

This plugin has been available since fwupd version `0.8.0`.
