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A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor. It will adjust screen backlight based on ambient brightness.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 3 stories, 2 comments · first 2017-04-25 · latest 2024-02-11

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    Clight – A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor
    story by PaulHoule · 2024-02-11 · 0 comments
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    A daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor
    story by annilt · 2023-06-02 · 0 comments
  3. There is also Clight ( https://github.com/FedeDP/Clight ) if you want automatic backlight adjusting given ambient brightness. It supports external monitors through ddcutil C library and has many more features to offer. Disclaimer: i am its…
  4. …be a little less fidgety than using a color calibration sensor if you just care about brightness): https://github.com/FedeDP/Clight
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    Show HN: Clight, small C linux user daemon to turn webcam into light sensor
    story by nierro · 2017-04-25 · 5 comments