als-led-backlight

Auto control of keyboard and LCD backlight (in-view) through Ambient Light Sensor in Linux

This program takes in data from the Ambient Light Sensor if found present on your laptop, and automatically adjust the light and its intensity on your keyboard if detected.

There is future plan to integrate LCD backlight too.

Requirements

• Linux
• gcc
• make

Build

make

Running

# ./build/als-led-backlight

Installing

Install the this package as a service by running with root privilege:

make install

Check the status of the service with systemctl status als-led-backlight

Config

Currently, it reads config file from /etc/als-led-backlight.conf. You can adjust the base reading threshold with this configuration

Uninstalling

Uninstall with root privilege using:

make uninstall