pi-battery-widget
Displays a battery icon on the desktop panel system tray for the Red Reactor (by Scally-H)
Clight
A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor. It will adjust screen backlight based on ambient brightness. (by FedeDP)
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pi-battery-widget
Posts with mentions or reviews of pi-battery-widget.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-14.
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We have created a way to have an external power-off button
We have created a full user manual on our GitHub site with instructions on you how to configure the Pi, and there is also example code for how to integrate it into your own software. But you can also just run our pi-battery-widget on your desktop GUI, which takes care of everything. Lots more info on our website news page for things like remote monitoring (code also on GitHub), and an assembly video on Youtube. Hope that helps!
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pi-battery-widget and Clight you can also consider the following projects:
RedReactor - Sample code for the Raspberry Pi Red Reactor UPS and technical documentation
ddcutil - Control monitor settings using DDC/CI and USB
osx_battery_charge_limit - Intel-only Macbook (OSX) limit maximum battery charge using SMC
light - GNU/Linux application to control backlights
smbusb - USB SMBus Interface
clight-gui - Qt GUI for clight
xsuspender - :eyes: :computer: :zzz: :battery: Save battery by auto-suspending unfocused X11 applications.
acpilight
brightnessctl - A program to read and control device brightness
Clightd - A linux bus interface that lets you change screen brightness, compute captured webcam frames brightness and change screen temperature.
HeadsetControl - Sidetone and Battery status for Logitech G930, G533, G633, G933 SteelSeries Arctis 7/PRO 2019 and Corsair VOID (Pro) in Linux and MacOSX
qtile-x-dotfiles - Various dotfiles for my old Qtile setup running under X.
pi-battery-widget vs RedReactor
Clight vs ddcutil
pi-battery-widget vs osx_battery_charge_limit
Clight vs light
pi-battery-widget vs smbusb
Clight vs clight-gui
pi-battery-widget vs xsuspender
Clight vs acpilight
Clight vs brightnessctl
Clight vs Clightd
Clight vs HeadsetControl
Clight vs qtile-x-dotfiles