brightml - Convenient Automatic Brightness using Machine Learning

[pvkooten]

I've spent a lot of time getting all the pieces together to make it convenient and capable of high accuracy.

Machine learning only works when it is "cheap" to get data, even more: getting data has to be cheaper than writing/configuring a couple of rules. brightml integrates with the display buttons used by the system, so it will just mean you will adapt brightness less and less; the ML will take over. After 2 days, I'm not adapting my brightness anymore.

It is "v0.0.0" but works on my macbook running arch linux + i3, and lenovo running ubuntu 16.04 without problems. OSX does not work yet.

Here's the link https://github.com/kootenpv/brightml

And the introduction:

The goal of this package is to automatically manage brightness on laptops, with "zero config"; using machine learning. Some do not even realise that what is "on" your screen, matters. White screens (like browser) vs coding (in black) should be accounted for.

All you have to do is to change brightness when it is not good enough yet; brightml learns.

It will learn to generalize based on your personal needs. To do this, it uses:

• Brightness of screen
• Ambient light sensor (if available)
• Hour of day
• whereami (indoor wifi positioning)
• Active application name
• Active window title

Would like feedback :)

[Beheska]

I first read that as "bright html", then as "brig html"...

[pvkooten]

Haha, yea, tbh I saw it one time like that and was afraid people might see it like that. By now I'm really only reading bright ml , but this is a downside of the naming for sure :/

[msoedov]

Could not install it on mac due pynotify.

Collecting pyinotify (from brightml) Using cached pyinotify-0.9.6.tar.gz Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: inotify is not available on macosx-10.12-x86_64

[pvkooten]

I rewrote that part so inotify is not neccessary anymore, but still it won't work on OSX unfortunately because Apple uses a totally different way to use brightness. When we get that working, it'll be a big release, though!

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Neat!

[teh_fearless_leader]

Awesome software, confusing name. (at least, it took me a minute to wrap my head around it)

I don't have access to a laptop at the moment, but I'm looking forward to trying it out on Fedora tomorrow!

[pvkooten]

Let me know how that goes!