Automatic Display Brightnes, removed or moved?

**th00ht** · 2008-09-21, 12:16

Under Player select Display. There is Power On, Power Of, Idle Brightness. Is this what you are looking for? I do not remember a "Automatic Brightness Control" but cannot check this anymore.

**m_gustafsson** · 2008-09-21, 15:22

th00ht, in 7.0.1 and earlier versions there are On, Off and Idle as you say, but there is also an Automatic Display Brightness.
I have a screensaver that automatically adjusts the brightness of my screen and if I in earlier versions did not set the Automatic DIsplay Brightness to Adjust Brightness Manuallay then the settings in On, Off and Idle were overriding my screensaver's settings.
So, now I am afraid that my screensaver will not work.

**MeSue** · 2008-09-21, 17:07

It's gone. I made an enhancement request to bring it back, though it doesn't seem to be getting much support.

http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9119

Now that I've switched to a Boom in the bedroom instead of an SB2, it's not as important to me. But I do still think that changing brightness manually for all three states is not ideal.

**m_gustafsson** · 2008-09-22, 13:20

MeSue, it looks like your enhancement request is just what I am asking for.
My problem is that I adjust the brightness depending on the sunlight outside, which I measure with a sensor, and if I can't use this setting the effect of my changes are only lasting for a short while. A bit annoying as I use one player in the bedroom.
I wonder if there could be any workaround to this?

Many thanks.

/Mats

**m_gustafsson** · 2008-10-13, 20:58

I just found the solution in the plugin AutoDisplay.
So, to change the brightness I use the line:
$serverPrefs->client($client)->set('powerOffBrightness',$brightness)

/Mats

Automatic Display Brightnes, removed or moved?

Automatic Display Brightnes, removed or moved?

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