Increasing run-time

uConsole
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Lots of ways to do this - I’ve used Node-Red before on Raspberry pi’s because I understand the syntax better and it’s more straightforward (to me) how to make the application execute on boot - but based on skill level and experience find the best way - appreciate the code snippets though they are good to have…

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Apologies - I took for granted how much research and study it took to find those commands - everyone just looks at those lines like they are magic and doesn’t say thanks - I’ve got a running file on notes on uConsole and another on DevTerm - copied those over - when I get my unit I’ll put those in a directory that is easy to get to so I have control of screen brightness. Thanks again for sharing…

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i did my own take on this, but made it in bash

#!/bin/bash

brightness=$(cat /sys/class/backlight/backlight@0/brightness)
maxBrightness=$(cat /sys/class/backlight/backlight@0/max_brightness)

if (( $1 > 0 ))
then
        if (($brightness+$1 < $maxBrightness))
        then
                echo $(($brightness+$1)) > /sys/class/backlight/backlight@0/brightness;
        else
                echo $maxBrightness > /sys/class/backlight/backlight@0/brightness
        fi;
else
        if (($brightness > 0))
        then
                if (($brightness-$2 > 0))
                then
                        echo $(($brightness-$2)) > /sys/class/backlight/backlight@0/brightness;
                else
                        echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/backlight@0/brightness;
                fi;
        fi;
fi;

in my i3 config i use this to change my brightness

bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec /home/$USER/scripts/backlight 2 0
bindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown exec /home/$USER/scripts/backlight 0 2

the first argument determines how much to increase brightness by. if its 0 then it will take the second argument as how much to decrease brightness by