Brightify 0.1.0

A tool to control the brightness of your screens.

Getting started

1. Install brightify by running pip install . in the main directory. When developing, you can use pip install -e . to install the package in editable mode.
2. To start the app: python -m brightify run. You can exit either by right-clicking the icon in the taskbar and selecting "Exit" or by pressing Ctrl+C in the terminal.
3. There are several other arguments you can pass to the app, see python -m brightify --help for more information.
   1. To start the app at startup python -m add startup (Equivalent to python -m add startup --mode startup-folder). By default, the terminal will be hidden, but you can change this by passing the --force-console argument. To remove the startup task, run python -m remove startup. On Windows you can also use the Task Scheduler, which requires elevated permissions to add the app to startup. For this, run python -m brightify add startup --mode task_scheduler and to remove it python -m brightify remove startup --mode task_scheduler.
   2. To add a menu icon python -m brightify add menu-icon. Again, you can pass the --force-console argument force the terminal. To remove the icon, run python -m remove menu-icon.

Set up the brightness sensor

1. Modify the SensorComm class to match your device and firmware
2. Modify the code that is polling from the brightness sensor Device Firmware
3. Modify platformio.ini and enter your board ( see supported boards)
4. Run pio run -t upload in the terminal to upload the firmware to the board. If everything is working, the Auto Checkbox for each supported Monitor should now be clickable

Remarks

• Currently, only the Windows task bar icon is supported, the main part of this app is OS independent
• Feel free to create a pull request and add your own USB Monitor