brightness controls while Fn lock is active are broken

[NIGHTFURY2111]

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Describe the bug the brightness controls seem to be broken, i've tried it with asus optimizations on and off, also restated the pc but still its broken

Clear scenario to Reproduce

in my case it just doesnt work, even after a restart

Expected behavior A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen. "the F7 key is supposed to reduce the brightness while the F8 should increase it"

App Logs log.txt

Screenshots or screencasts as you can see in the recording provided, first i've used the F7 and F8 keys with Fn lock on and then with Fn lock off https://github.com/seerge/g-helper/assets/65185393/13c233d9-b652-4c03-b2ed-17a520fbde81

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 11
• Laptop model:- ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA506QM

Asus software

• Armoury crate (or it's services installed)
• MyASUS installed
• Other Asus services running in background:-
• i've tested it with asus optimizations services both on and off

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

[seerge]

@NIGHTFURY2111 hello,

From log I see that app sends brightness command and it's accepted.

Even more - on your recording (bottom) notification is windows own (i.e. it means that windows accepts it, processes somehow and shows toast notification).

Does brightness slider (if you click on battery icon) work for you at all? mb it's some issue with drivers / system ?

[NIGHTFURY2111]

@seerge Hello, thanks for such a quick response. yes, the brightness does change when the F7 and F8 keys are pressed, it's just that whether the brightness will increase or decrease is random. In the video I've shared, all I have done is hold F7, and as you can see the brightness percentage is all over the place. Even simply tapping the F7 and F8 keys, will randomly increase or decrease the brightness

(sorry I accidentally closed the issue, I'm new to GitHub 😅)

[seerge]

@NIGHTFURY2111 i see, currently some people with TUF devices mentioned that native brightness controls didn't work for them, so i have added extra "manual" adjustments over that.

But it seems like in your case native works fine.

Can you try this build ?

GHelper.zip

[NIGHTFURY2111]

@seerge i've tested the build u sent me and it works perfectly, there's just one small issue, natively on my device, F7 decreases the brightness and F8 increases it, but when the Fn lock is on the keys switch their functions, F7 will increase and F8 will decrease the brightness.

Also F2-F4 control the volume n mute but they switch to aura controls.

Other than that, yes the original issue seems to be fixed with this new build Thanks

[seerge]

@NIGHTFURY2111 actually app already sends Decrease brightness hotkey with F7 and increase with F8

You can even reproduce them manually in PowerShell (as admin)

Decrease

Invoke-CimMethod (Get-CimInstance -Namespace root/wmi -ClassName AsusAtkWmi_WMNB) -MethodName DEVS -Arguments @{Device_ID=0x00100021; Control_status=0x10}

Increase

Invoke-CimMethod (Get-CimInstance -Namespace root/wmi -ClassName AsusAtkWmi_WMNB) -MethodName DEVS -Arguments @{Device_ID=0x00100021; Control_status=0x20}

I can only assume that in your case they are swapped on bios level .... :| I'm not a big fan of swapping that as it may break other devices :)

This build should have correct bindings for F2-F4

GHelper.zip

[NIGHTFURY2111]

@seerge hello, thanks, this build has the correct bindings for F2-F4 also i guess i can live with the brightness being flipped, atleast its not random

But it seems that F6, F10, F11 and F12 aren't working in this build😅 f6 is now print screen, F10 is just showing the current status of touchpad instead of toggling it, F11 is aura brightness toggle and F12 just isn't working

Also I'm sorry for bothering you this much

[seerge]

@NIGHTFURY2111 i didn't change anything related to F6 or any other keys you have mentioned.

F6 is indeed printscreen (same as on any model, what should it be instead?) i guess it's a handy feature F10 - Touchpad toggle is handles in some unknown way on old TUF models, therefore there is no support for that anyway https://github.com/seerge/g-helper/issues/738 You can't bind F12 in windows, therefore it's not supported for FN-Lock at all.

[NIGHTFURY2111]

@seerge that explains a lot, on my model F6 is to turn off the display, I guess printscreen is indeed better, and F10 works on the older builds, only this one is not working for some reason

[seerge]

@NIGHTFURY2111 try this build for F11* GHelper.zip

I personally use FN-Lock mainly to control backlight / brightness / volume, all those things work on your device :)

[NIGHTFURY2111]

hey @seerge sorry for such a late reply, Just wanted to let you know that the F10 is not fixed in this new build but its ok as i wouldn't want to accidently toggle it anyway thanks for all the help :)

[seerge]

@NIGHTFURY2111 sorry, I have mistyped :) I meant that I have fixed F11 (not F10).

F10 unfortunately can't be "fixed" cause i don't know how touchpad toggle works on old TUFs (and there is no open info about that)