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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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    • RE: Waveshare Magic Mirror touch screen

      Just got one of these today, kinda happy with it, especially as a bit of a beginner system!

      FYI - if you want to programmatically change the brightness (as I’m seeing in older posts):

      CAUTION - This worked for me, but involves enabling scary flags and setting potentially unsafe values to the monitor. Exercise caution.

      Edit vi /boot/config.txt
      Add:

      dtparam=i2c2_iknowwhatimdoing
      

      Reboot

      Then sudo apt-get install ddcutil

      Run sudo ddcutil detect
      You should see an output like:

      pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo ddcutil detect
      Display 1
         I2C bus:             /dev/i2c-2
         EDID synopsis:
            Mfg id:           RTK
            Model:            RTK FHD
            Serial number:    [redacted]
            Manufacture year: 2011
            EDID version:     1.3
         VCP version:         2.2
      

      If you do, you can then run:
      sudo ddcutil getvcp 10 to get the brightness
      and
      sudo ddcutil setvcp 10 [1-100] to set the brightness, where 1-100 is the desired value of the brightness

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