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      harney last edited by

      I’ve been working on these for a few weeks now. The 7 inch screen is for my Pi server, and the 5inch screen is my bedside clock.

      Both screens have brightness controls, and module hiding. The seven inch screen has both a manual screen button for reducing the brightness from 180 to 20, which can override the auto dulling and brightening.

      Seven Inch (screen grabs - Full and Night mode)
      7inch.jpeg 7inchnight.jpeg
      Seven inch Bright mode
      7inchbright.jpg
      Seven inch in night dull mode( Not as bright as the image in real life. At night, its just bright enough to see the time but not bright enough to light the room. Dimming is the same on both screens)

      7inchnight.jpg
      And in dull mode
      7inch.jpg

      Five inch
      6inchreal.jpg
      Screen grab of full five inch screen
      5inch.jpeg
      And night mode
      5inchnight.jpeg

      Modules used (and modified)

      Clock
      MMM-ScreenDimmer
      MMM-OpenWeather
      weatherforecast (with modified ico sizes for the 5" screen)
      MMM-network-signal
      MMM-ip
      MMM-ModuleToggle
      MMM-TouchButton
      MMM-ping
      internet-monitor
      MMM-SystemStats

      Thanks

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        Saabman Project Sponsor last edited by

        That looks neat,

        how do you find the brightness in the bedroom of a night. I made a clock out of and Iphone but found the backlight was way too bright.

        do you have absolute control over your back light?

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          harney @Saabman last edited by

          @saabman I did some testing and found a brightness that didnt light up the room but still enabled the display to be seem

          The Sun and Moon icons on the left have commands attached to them

          | command: “echo 20 | sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/brightness”, |

          I just changed the “echo xxx” number to a value that works for me. I’m using Raspberry screens.

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            Saabman Project Sponsor @harney last edited by

            @harney Thats good Your on a winner 🙂

            I shelved my Iphone project till I can get my hands on some dark window tint to bring it under control -

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              carltonb last edited by

              @harney These look great. I have built something similar on larger screens.
              Can you please let me know what models of the 5 and 7" screens you are using.

              Thanks
              carltonb

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                Gr1dL0ck @harney last edited by

                @harney

                how did you get the sun/moon to come up and in color like that ?

                could you post some of the code to that

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