A RESTful API to control the brightness of your Mac screen
Currently the only thing implemented is a "wake up" endpoint. I use this in conjuntion with Sleep As Android and Tasker to wake up my monitor slowly in the morning, gradually increasing the light level in the room.
You need to have Composer installed: https://getcomposer.org/download/
Then run:
composer install
Next you need to test if the brightness binary works on your system.
Try:
bin/brightness -l
This should output something like:
display 0: main display, ID 0x7bd7f9bd
display 0: brightness 0.300781
If it doesn't, try compiling it with:
cd src
make
make install
cd ..
Then try this again:
bin/brightness -l
Either install using OSX's in-built Apache web server, or use PHP's in-built web server with:
cd app
php -S localhost:8080 -t .
Now you can hit:
http://localhost:8080/index.php/wake
This will set the screen to 0 brightness and gradually increase it.
There are three options you can add to the URL:
level=7 // This is the level to increase the brightness to - maximum 10
rate=5 // This will increase the brightness one level every 5 seconds
display=1 // This will increase the brightness on monitor 1 - 0 is internal, 1 is external - use bin/brightness -l to see your connected monitors
e.g.
http://localhost:8080/index.php/wake?level=7&rate=5&display=1