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ScottSturdivant / rpi_metar

METAR LED Display for a Raspberry Pi
MIT License
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Feature Request: Auto dim LEDs at night time to a lower value #18

Open tracehagan opened 4 years ago

tracehagan commented 4 years ago

It would be a great feature if the LEDs could automatically dim at sunset or a configured time as the bright LEDs are not needed when it is dark outside.

thommo17 commented 4 years ago

This is something I was working on for a bit and I gave up.

Not because it is impossible but because the LED strings start to behave funny when you lower the power too much.

I found that once you go below a brightness of about 50 on my strings the colours start to change from what they're meant to be.

I have orange for high winds and it became yellow basically.

Maybe if you're using a different set of LEDs that aren't the ws2811 8mm wide ones it may work well but that what I found

peterbickel commented 3 years ago

It would be great to implement this. Everybody can adjust his own setting to the individual behavior of the LEDs.