#!/bin/bash # this is a script to set my external monitor's brightness # to high (70% is my personal preference) or low (40% is my personal preference) # 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/brightness-by-daylight.conf ## Setup for brightness-by-daylight.sh # latitude="0.000000N" # longitude="0.000000E" # scriptdir= # 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 ' 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) # avoid running two concurrent processes [ "${BRTNESSLOCKER}" != "running" ] && exec env BRTNESSLOCKER="running" flock -en "/tmp/brightness-by-daylight.lock" "$0" "$@" || : # set location of the config file [ -z "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] && confdir="$HOME/.config" || confdir="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" # read from the config file if [ -f $confdir/brightness-by-daylight.conf ]; then source $confdir/brightness-by-daylight.conf else echo "No config file found!" echo "It should be located at [config-dir]/brightness-by-daylight.conf" exit fi # get sun status sun_status=$(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"