Clight
A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor. It will adjust screen backlight based on ambient brightness. (by FedeDP)
macbook-lighter
Macbook screen and keyboard backlight on the ambient light (by harttle)
| Clight | macbook-lighter | |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 2 | |
| 691 | 35 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.3 | 0.0 | |
| about 2 months ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Clight
Posts with mentions or reviews of Clight.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.
- Clight – A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor
- A daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor
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KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
There is also Clight (https://github.com/FedeDP/Clight) if you want automatic backlight adjusting given ambient brightness. It supports external monitors through ddcutil C library and has many more features to offer.
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Is there anyway I can get a macbook pro 9,2 ambient light sensor working in ubuntu 20.10
Here are two suggestions from the Arch Wiki, try Clight or macbook-lighter. Clight looks to be continuously maintained, so I'd try that one first.
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Adjust screen brightness based on content's luminosity
Clight can do that. See the config file.
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Setting brightness on AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics in Xorg
Installed light, clight, clightd and acpilight
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Packages for eye strain solutions
If you're using a laptop screen, there's Clight, which can turn your webcam into an ambient light sensor.
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ambient light - brightness control for Linux
Clight is a lightweight C user daemon utility program that turns your webcam into a light sensor which it depends on to automatically adjust your screen’s display based on ambient light. Just like Redshift, Clight can manipulate the temperature of your screen and it derived inspiration from Calise.
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Automatic screen brightness
Check out Clight. There's also a GUI for it.
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Clight Uses Your Webcam To Adjust Screen Backlight Based On Ambient Brightness.
The only downside to Clight? You need to build not only Clight and Clightd from source, but also 2 dependencies (libmodule and ddcutil), as well as the Clight-GUI if you want to use it. That is, unless you use Arch Linux / Manjaro (there are AUR packages available), NixOS, Exherbo or Void Linux, for which there are packages available.
macbook-lighter
Posts with mentions or reviews of macbook-lighter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-09.
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Is there anyway I can get a macbook pro 9,2 ambient light sensor working in ubuntu 20.10
Here are two suggestions from the Arch Wiki, try Clight or macbook-lighter. Clight looks to be continuously maintained, so I'd try that one first.
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How do I install proper drivers for macbook-lighter to work?
The link to the github page: https://github.com/harttle/macbook-lighter
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Clight and macbook-lighter you can also consider the following projects:
ddcutil - Control monitor settings using DDC/CI and USB
mbp-fedora
light - GNU/Linux application to control backlights
mbp-2016-linux - State of Linux on the MacBook Pro 2016 & 2017
clight-gui - Qt GUI for clight
runit-services - Runit service scripts
acpilight
polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.
brightnessctl - A program to read and control device brightness
apple-bce-arch - Arch Linux package for the Apple BCE driver required for T2-equipped devices.
Clightd - A linux bus interface that lets you change screen brightness, compute captured webcam frames brightness and change screen temperature.
i3-kb-backlight - Keyboard backlight control and notifications for i3wm
Clight vs ddcutil
macbook-lighter vs mbp-fedora
Clight vs light
macbook-lighter vs mbp-2016-linux
Clight vs clight-gui
macbook-lighter vs runit-services
Clight vs acpilight
macbook-lighter vs polybar-themes
Clight vs brightnessctl
macbook-lighter vs apple-bce-arch
Clight vs Clightd
macbook-lighter vs i3-kb-backlight