Aura E2 Any Way to Dim Light Below 1% But Still Keep It On?

[SillyStegosaurus]

This is for the Kobo Aura 2, v1. I'm finding even with dark mode and with the screen glow set to 1%, it's still brighter than I would like at night. Is there any custom firmware or software to dim the light further? The light's scale is pretty weird, it's easily brighter than I could ever need even at 20% brightness so I was wondering if the scale could set 20% as the 100%, and then each increment would be 1 percent of 20% instead for finer control.

It makes sense in continuous number space, but I don't know if the hardware supports that.

[Cootey]

Originally Posted by SillyStegosaurus

This is for the Kobo Aura 2, v1. I'm finding even with dark mode and with the screen glow set to 1%, it's still brighter than I would like at night. Is there any custom firmware or software to dim the light further? The light's scale is pretty weird, it's easily brighter than I could ever need even at 20% brightness so I was wondering if the scale could set 20% as the 100%, and then each increment would be 1 percent of 20% instead for finer control.

It makes sense in continuous number space, but I don't know if the hardware supports that.

You may be out of luck with that model. As far as I can see, there are no settings on NickelMenu to adjust the brightness in smaller increments. That was my first thought. The other is for you to engage ambient lighting, but Comfort Light only became available with the Kobo Aura One and H2O. With Comfort Light manually engaged, I am able to dim that final 1% down quite a bit on my Clara HD. Unfortunately, my Kobo Elipsa doesn't have comfort light, so that 1% setting is still too bright. If there is a mod out there to patch the brightness, hopefully somebody else knows about it.


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[SillyStegosaurus]

Thank you for looking. Yeah apparently the Aura One has the ability to change the color of the light, but the Aura 2 does not. I guess goes to show that newer isn't always better. I still wonder if the hardware or chipset would support finer brightness adjustments, but I don't have much in the way of firmware development experience.

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by SillyStegosaurus

Thank you for looking. Yeah apparently the Aura One has the ability to change the color of the light, but the Aura 2 does not. I guess goes to show that newer isn't always better. I still wonder if the hardware or chipset would support finer brightness adjustments, but I don't have much in the way of firmware development experience.

It's up to the LED controller. On the Aura E2 and Clara, I've confirmed it isn't possible.

[SillyStegosaurus]

Thanks for confirming!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Cootey

You may be out of luck with that model. As far as I can see, there are no settings on NickelMenu to adjust the brightness in smaller increments. That was my first thought. The other is for you to engage ambient lighting, but Comfort Light only became available with the Kobo Aura One and H2O. With Comfort Light manually engaged, I am able to dim that final 1% down quite a bit on my Clara HD. Unfortunately, my Kobo Elipsa doesn't have comfort light, so that 1% setting is still too bright. If there is a mod out there to patch the brightness, hopefully somebody else knows about it.


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Is there a way to use NickelMenu to turn on the light with the setting I want?