cuu / rpi-backlight

Simple program for controlling backlight of the official Raspberry Pi Touchscreen.

rpi-backlight

Simple program for controlling backlight of the official Raspberry Pi Touchscreen.

COMPLETE FUNCTIONALITY ON DISPLAY BOARDS V2.0 AND V1.1 ONLY!

DISPLAY BOARD V1.0 ONLY "on" AND "off" WORKING (need to verify)

Make sure you execute following commands to be able to access config files as a regular user:

sudo su -c 'echo SUBSYSTEM==\"backlight\", RUN+=\"/bin/chmod 0666 /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness /sys/class/backlight/%k/bl_power\" > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-backlight.rules'
sudo reboot

Installation

git clone https://github.com/jakeh12/rpi-backlight.git
cd rpi-backlight
make
sudo make install

Usage

rpi-backlight [option]

	up:		increases brightness by 10%
	down:	decreases brightness by 10%
	max:	sets brightness to 100%
	min:	sets brightness to 0%
	on:		turns the screen on
	off:	turns the screen off

Thanks for using this program. Feel free to modify, improve, and share. Open source spirit.