random/brightness-by-daylight.sh

#!/bin/sh

# this is a script to set my external monitor's brightness
# to high (70%) or low (40%) automatically according to day/night.
# it uses ddcutil to access the monitor's settings and sunwait to know
# if it's day or night. It expects a file in the following format in
# the .config directory (the values should be according to location)

# ~/.config/latlong.toml
# latitude="0.000000N"
# longitude="0.000000E"
# scriptdir=<location-of-this-script>
# high=70
# low=40

# just run this script one manually to set it up to run perpetually (hopefully) using 'at'
# (some distros don't come with 'at' preinstalled, so you might need to install 'at' and enable the 'atd' service.)

# it might also be a good idea to add '<location-of-this-script> scheduler' to your DE's autostart list, or to '.profile' so that it launches on system login
# (sometimes I forget to turn on the monitor when I start my PC, so this is better than having a crontab)

# location of the config file
[ -z "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] && confdir="/home/sintan/.config" || confdir="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"

# read from the config file
if test -f $confdir/latlong.toml ; then
    source $confdir/latlong.toml
else
    echo "No config file found!"
    exit
fi

# get sun status
sun_status=$(sunwait poll $latitude $longitude)

# check if we want to access the scheduler. If yes, create a schedule using `at`
if [ "$1" == "scheduler" ]; then
    # get the timings for twilight events and current time
    sunrise_time=$(sunwait report 35.221050N 97.445938W | grep "Daylight:" | awk '{print $4}')
    sunset_time=$(sunwait report 35.221050N 97.445938W | grep "Daylight:" | awk '{print $6}')
    now_time=$(date "+%H:%M")

    # try to figure out if it's twilight right now, then need to adjust sun_status
    [ $sunrise_time == $now_time ] && sun_status="DAY"
    [ $sunset_time == $now_time ] && sun_status="NIGHT"
    
    # figure out the time of the next twilight
    [ $sun_status == "DAY" ] && time_next=$sunset_time || time_next=$sunrise_time

    # query all `at` tasks
    task_list=$(atq | grep $time_next | awk '{print $1}')

    # loop through all `at` entries to see if a task already exists
    flag=true
    for item in $task_list
    do
        [ "$(at -c $item | sed 'x;$!d')" == "$scriptdir/brightness-by-daylight.sh scheduler" ] && flag=false
    done

    # create the schedule
    $flag && at -m $time_next <<< "$scriptdir/brightness-by-daylight.sh scheduler"
fi

# do the brightness adjustment using ddcutil
[ $sun_status == "DAY" ] && target=$high || target=$low
ddcutil setvcp 10 $target
echo "Monitor brightness set to $target%, since it's $(echo $sun_status | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]') time"