* nightlight :PROPERTIES: :header-args: :tangle nightlight :shebang "#!/bin/sh" :END: This is a shell script for automatically setting the screen colors and brightness, based on daytime. The script is created via literate programming. You can find the code below. ** Usage 1. Make sure the [[#requirements][requirements]] are fulfilled 2. Obtain your location code from [[https://weather.codes/search/][here]] and paste it into the script 3. Get the IDs of your displays with =xrandr --listmonitors= and paste them into the script 4. (Optionally) set the fading window which specifies the amount of minutes in which the screen is dimmed 5. Make sure the script is executable (=chmod +x nightlight=) and run it with =./nightlight= If you are unhappy with the display settings, you can revert them always by stopping the script and calling the following command manually. Please adjust your display ID and call for every display seperately. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE sh xrandr --output --gamma 1:1:1 --brightness 1 #+END_EXAMPLE ** Configuration Configuration is currently done via editing the script directly or editing this file and then tangling it with Emacs (=C-c C-v t=). #+begin_src sh # SETTINGS # Edit from here --> location="GMXX0128" # Location code (get it from https://weather.codes/search/) displays=("eDP-1-1") # Displays e.g. ("eDP-1-1" "eDP-1-2") (get displays with "xrandr --listmonitors") window=60 # Fading window in minutes # <-- to here #+end_src ** Requirements :PROPERTIES: :CUSTOM_ID: requirements :END: - [[https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/][Wget]] :: Used for getting sunrise and sunset times - [[https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/][bc]] :: Used for floating point calculations - [[https://xorg.freedesktop.org/][xrandr]] :: Used for setting screen colors and brightess, usually shipped with X.Org To make sure that all requirements are fulfilled, we check them before doing anything else. #+begin_src sh if ! command -v wget &> /dev/null then echo -ne "\e[1mwget\e[0m was not found, please install it" exit 1 elif ! command -v bc &> /dev/null then echo -ne "\e[1mbc\e[0m was not found, please install it" exit 1 elif ! command -v xrandr &> /dev/null then echo -ne "\e[1mxrandr\e[0m was not found, are you running the X.Org Server?" exit 1 fi #+end_src ** Local variables The file containing the sunrise and sunset is stored in =/tmp=. #+begin_src sh file=/tmp/$location #+end_src To make calculations easier, we scale the fading window down to seconds (=*60=) and divide it in half (=*0.5=). This results in a multiplication with =30=. #+begin_src sh window=$(( $window * 30 )) #+end_src The following variables are also used in the script, but not initialized. For the sake of completion they are described here. - =sunrise= :: Time in seconds since the Unix epoch until sunrise - =sunset= :: Time in seconds since the Unix epoch until sunset - =now= :: Time in seconds since the Unix epoch until now - =value= :: Dim value in range [0:1] (0 at day, 1 at night, values in between if in window around sunrise or sunset) ** Get times The times for sunrise and sunset are fetched from [[https://weather.com/][weather.com]]. To filter out the exact values from the response, the regular expressions from [[https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-obtain-sunrise-sunset-time-for-any-location-from-linux-command-line][this]] blog post are used. #+begin_src sh function get_times { wget -q "https://weather.com/weather/today/l/$location" -O "$file" SUNR=$(grep SunriseSunset "$file" | grep -oE '((1[0-2]|0?[1-9]):([0-5][0-9]) ?([AaPp][Mm]))' | head -1) SUNS=$(grep SunriseSunset "$file" | grep -oE '((1[0-2]|0?[1-9]):([0-5][0-9]) ?([AaPp][Mm]))' | tail -1) sunrise=$(date --date="$SUNR" +%s) sunset=$(date --date="$SUNS" +%s) } #+end_src ** Set dim value The dim value is based on the current time, the sunrise and sunset. This is a mess and should be done with arithmetics, but it works for now. Finally the value is scaled into range [0,1]. #+begin_src sh function set_dim_value { # Get current time now=$(date +%s) # Night - pre day if (( $now <= $sunrise - $window )); then value=$(( 2 * $window )) # Sun rising elif (( $now > $sunrise - $window )) && (( $now < $sunrise + $window )); then value=$(( (2 * $window) - ($now - ($sunrise - $window)) )) else # Day if (( $now <= $sunset - $window )); then value=0 # Sun setting elif (( $now > $sunset - $window )) && (( $now < $sunset + $window )); then value=$(( $now - ($sunset - $window) )) # Night - after day else value=$(( 2 * $window )) fi fi # Scale dim value in [0:1] value=$(echo "$value / (2.0 * $window)" | bc -l) } #+end_src ** Set display For setting the display values, we need to calculate the current RGB colors and brightness. Values for all displays are set according to the following table. | | Night (=value 1=) | Day (=value 0=) | |------------+-------------------+-----------------| | Red | 1.0 | 1.0 | | Green | 0.9 | 1.0 | | Blue | 0.8 | 1.0 | | Brightness | 0.8 | 1.0 | #+begin_src sh function set_display { red=1.0 green=$(echo "1.0 - (0.1 * $value)" | bc -l) blue=$(echo "1.0 - (0.2 * $value)" | bc -l) brightness=$(echo "1.0 - (0.2 * $value)" | bc -l) # Set nightlight for all displays for d in ${displays[@]}; do xrandr --output $d --gamma $red:$green:$blue --brightness $brightness done } #+end_src ** Log To make it easier to follow the script, a timestamp is prefixed on every logging output. #+begin_src sh function log { log_time=$(date '+%H:%M') echo -ne "[\e[1m$log_time\e[0m] $1" } #+end_src ** Main At first the times are updated. Then the current display values are applied every minute. #+begin_src sh echo -ne "\n..:: \e[1mnightlight\e[0m ::..\n\n" get_times log "got sunrise and sunset values\n" while true; do set_dim_value set_display log "applied display values\r" sleep 60 done #+end_src