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Thomas B 2 months ago
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 git: https://git.xythobuz.de/thomas/AutoBrightness
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 github: https://github.com/xythobuz/AutoBrightness
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 date: 2024-09-07
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+update: 2024-09-09
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 comments: true
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 Unfortunately, using ddcutil to adjust the brightness causes a noticable stutter of the whole system each time the value is changed.
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 So this is not a good long-term solution.
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+Telling ddcutil [to directly talk to the I2C bus](https://git.xythobuz.de/thomas/AutoBrightness/commit/b4888f009f3685c036866fa689759ffdbe9227cb) helped a bit, but it still stutters slightly.
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+To alleviate this a bit I'm now using a [KWin script](https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/kwin/) to check for a full-screen app so I can pause brightness updates.
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+<pre class="sh_javascript">
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+var win = workspace.activeWindow;
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+var name = win.caption;
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+var pid = win.pid;
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+var state = (win.bufferGeometry == win.output.geometry);
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+print('{ "name": "' + name + '", "pid": ' + pid + ', "fullscreen": ' + state + ' }');
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+</pre>
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+As usual I'm also sending all these values to my local InfluxDB.
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+<!--%
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+lightgallery([
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+    [ "img/autobrightness_influx.png", "Input and Output data in Grafana" ],
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+])
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+%-->
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 ## Proper Client
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 My initial idea for the client was to use the ambient light sensor to also "calibrate" the two displays to each other.

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