New ALS: isl29018 on Acer C720[P]

On the Acer C720 (and C720P), there is an ambient light sensor with a light value at /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_illuminance0_input and a name "isl29018\n" in /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/name

[kootenpv]

Amazing… love the screenshots haha.

For the record: note that I disabled using my ambient light sensor as input, and it still works well (even though it is the best feature, without it, it can still do quite a good job).

[kootenpv]

@xorgy @intika It’s better to make new issues for specific issues, though obviously any feedback is appreciated.

@intika Replying to:

In practical usage i found that brightml act too often and most of the time the changes are not needed (like between dark apps)… i am not criticizing your work it’s amazing, i just want to share how i see it 😃

You haven’t taken enough samples yet 😃 Just keep correcting it a few more times and I literally now see no % change when switching between similarly black apps 😃

@intika Replying to removing functionality and changing things to how you like them

I understand where you are coming from, I add a lot of features that most likely won’t be important to everyone. However, the beauty is that it is up to the ML and will be able to learn complex functions if the situation exists. Maybe you don’t care about difference between being on your “couch” vs “being at work”, but some others might. No one will need to change config though to be able to use this. You are not obliged to use whereami either: if it is installed, it will use it, otherwise, it is just a missing value. I guess the scrolling should be optional though. At some point I will probably make this a CLI feature.

Lastly: I completely agree that one breakthrough in what brightml does is use the mean pixel value. I would definitely recommend anyone that makes an automatic brightness app for laptops to consider the “inner” brightness (the mean pixel value). So feel free to use any part of brightml’s code and make auto brightness ran on simple config code. It just goes against the philosophy of what we’re creating here. But I certainly see value if it would be possible to create an easy to use working solution for everyone without much config.