Jon Eskdale's Touchscreen dimmer

Question

I have the official 7" touchscreen installed on a Pi 3B running Strech V9.

I have installed the touchscreen-dimmer project from the Github repository & followed the readme.me

the screen dims OK when I run

sudo ./timeout 10 15 event0

I have copied timeout & run-dimmer.sh to /etc/ & added: /etc/run-dimmer.sh to /etc/rc.local

I have run the command:

sudo su -c 'echo SUBSYSTEM==\"backlight\", RUN+=\"/bin/chmod 0666 /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness /sys/class/backlight/%k/bl_power\" > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-backlight.rules'

I got no feedback or error when I ran this command? Is this right?

I have ls installed & working.

I am using the default time & levels in run-dimmer.sh.

The upshot is that the screen does not dim after 30 secs.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I have modified the file permissions on /etc/timeout & /etc/run-dimmer.sh so that they have -rwxrwsrwx 1 root root 1151. (/etc/run_dimmer.sh is coloured orange).

File permissions for /etc/timeout are: -rwxrwsrwx 1 root root 12684

I can run /etc/./run-dimmer.sh in a terminal window & it executes & the screen dims after 30 secs.

However, when I add /etc/./run-dimmer.sh or cd /etc ./run-dimmer.sh

to /etc/rc.local it doesn't work.

I'm not sure what to do to run run-dimmer.sh from rc.local

I tried Doug Lawson's app and followed his readme.md but it still won't execute from within rc.local

I have now got this fully working using Doug's app but I had to modify Doug's script to explicitly point to event0, rather than using the $dev variable to wake up the screen on touch. I am running the script from etc/profile, not rc.local. I also found an issue. If the pi is rebooted with the screen blanked it does not come back to full brightness. I fixed this by writing a script that runs the command echo 120 > /sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/brightness. I also put this script into /etc/profile and ran it before the display dimmer.