- Change the display brightness smoothly or abrupt
- Set the display power on or off
- Get the current brightness
- Get the maximum brightness
- Get the display power state (on/off)
- Command line interface
- Graphical user interface
- A Raspberry Pi including a correctly assembled 7" touch display v1.1 or higher running a Linux-based OS
- Python 2 or 3
- Optional:
pygobjectfor the GUI, is likely to be already installed on a recent Raspbian
Install from PyPI using:
pip install rpi_backlight
or clone this repository and install by:
git clone https://github.com/linusg/rpi-backlight.git cd rpi-backlight sudo python3 setup.py install
Note: You may need to edit the backlight rules file in order to run the code:
sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/backlight-permissions.rules
Insert the line:
SUBSYSTEM=="backlight",RUN+="/bin/chmod 666 /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness /sys/class/backlight/%k/bl_power"
Example in a Python shell:
>>> import rpi_backlight as bl >>> bl.set_brightness(255) >>> bl.set_brightness(20, smooth=True, duration=3) >>> bl.get_max_brightness() 255 >>> bl.get_actual_brightness() 20 >>> bl.get_power() True >>> bl.set_power(False)
NOTE: Code using set_ functions of this library has to be run as root, e.g. sudo python file.py , if the permissions for changing the backlight were not changed as described in the installation section!
Open a terminal and run rpi-backlight as root:
$ rpi-backlight -b 255 $ rpi-backlight -b 20 -s -d 3 $ rpi-backlight --max-brightness 255 $ rpi-backlight --actual-brightness 20 $ rpi-backlight --power True $ rpi-backlight --off
Open a terminal and run rpi-backlight-gui as root.
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The source code and all other files in this repository are licensed under the MIT license, so you can easily use it in your own projects.