Thread: Front Light Master extension
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Old 03-04-2015, 02:37 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by gilijev View Post
Hi peterson. I used Front Light Master for a long while and it worked like a charm.

At some point, I believe after that silent firmware update, it developed a problem similar to violent23's. I have a PW2. Both auto-control and the manual "Turn off front light" option reduce the frontlight to the "0" brightness but don't actually turn it off.

Any ideas how to fix this?
I've disabled firmware updates on my PW2, so I am still at 5.4.2.1, and I am not inclined to update (I'm happy with the way it works right now and don't want to break anything).

What you can try:
  • Check the OFFVALUE in config.sh and if it is 0, increase it to 1
  • Manually (with this extension turned off) set brightness values. E.g. do "echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/max77696-bl/brightness" which should turn off the brightness on a PW2
  • Go into /mnt/us/extensions/frontlightmaster/bin and call "./disable.sh" to turn the extension off. Then when you run "./frontlightmaster.sh" you will get to see live what it is doing and its decisions.
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