Hi there.
I’ve been searching for a way to control the brightness of the led’s on my Keybow. Is that possible with the current version? Or maybe something that’s in the pipeline?
Thanks in advance!
If you go here, and scroll down to the Manually setting each LED
https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/setting-up-the-keybow-os
You’ll see the colors are by R G B values, 255 being the brightest and 0 being off
keybow.set_pixel(0, 255, 255, 0) – Yellow
so if you change that too
keybow.set_pixel(0, 128, 128, 0) – you’ll get yellow but not as bright a yellow. I didn’t see any brightness value like you get with say the LED shim etc though. Give it a try and see how it turns out for you. I don’t own one myself.
Thanks! Changing the colours isn’t the problem, and setting them to darker values does help. But apparently it should also be possible to actually adjust the brightness. See here, for instance:
That looks very interesting, but does way more than I need. I would simply like to set the brightness of the leds to 50% or so, and maybe even disable the led for individual keys.
You don’t have to change the colors, just edit the values:
Example if your using Red ,(255, 0, 0) change it to (128, 0, 0) and its a dim Red.
The lower the number the lower the intensity of that LED. There are actually 3 LED’s in each key, a Red a Green and a Blue LED. The 3 sets of numbers determine it an LED is on or off and how bright it is.
For example (255, 255, 0) is Yellow, Red and Green LEDs on. Looks like I made a mistake up above, ops. Anyway, (128, 128, 0) should get you a dimmer yellow.
And setting an LED to (0, 0, 0) will turn it off. All three LED’s are off.
Try this
keybow.set_pixel(0, 255, 0, 0, 0.5)
If it works it will set the brightness to 0.5.
For some reason it never occurred to me to set all the values to 0. And that works a charm, of course. Thanks!
What doesn’t work is adding a percentage at the end. That would do the trick in css, but not here…
I looked at the function reference for other products using those LED’s, like the Blinkt.
They will let you use the brightness value.
http://docs.pimoroni.com/blinkt/
Was rolling the dice to see if it maybe worked with the Keybow too. Looks like I crapped out, lol.
The values can be any number between 0 and 255,which works out to 0000000 to 1111111 in binary.
https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_rgb.asp
You can in theory get any color in the rainbow, and some that aren’t. Like purple.
My Sense Hat has a low light mode that dims the display to I think half brightness. My LED Shim also has a brightness value like the Blinkt. If you post a request on the Keybow gethub page it might be something they can add in.