Finer Keyboard Brightness Level Control

[nebula-it]

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Hey @seerge, First of all a huge thank you for making this program. I love to keep my laptop as much clean as possible and thanks to G-Helper I can get rid of all that shit Asus puts in.

Now the feature request, the Keyboard Backlight brightness is too high even on the lowest setting on my Zenbook S14. So I would love to have more control over the brightness instead of just 3 levels in G-Helper. I'm not sure how the brightness control is implemented i.e is G-Helper just passing the command to BIOS or is it controlling the actual brightness level using PWM etc.

Describe the solution you'd like

A more fine grained control over Keyboard Brightness similar to how screen brightness works i.e you should be able to select any value between 0 and 100.

Describe alternatives you've considered

If the above is not possible, I'd love to at least disable Mid and Max level. So when I hit the keyboard brightness button it just toggles on(to lowest settings) and toggles off. The other two options are blinding at night.

Device and Model

Asus Zenbook S14 UX5406SA

Additional information.

No response

[seerge]

@nebula-it hello,

That's not possible. Keyboards have only 4 fixed levels of backlight brightness (including 0 - off). You can achieve lower brightness by setting "grey" color instead of "white", if your device supports colors in a first place.

G-Helper just sets brightness level by passing this value to a special endpoint, 0-1-2-3.

[nebula-it]

That's not possible. Keyboards have only 4 fixed levels of backlight brightness (including 0 - off).

Thought that was the case

You can achieve lower brightness by setting "grey" color instead of "white", if your device supports colors in a first place.

Unfortunately, not possible on this model it only has white color backlight

G-Helper just sets brightness level by passing this value to a special endpoint, 0-1-2-3.

As requested above, any chance we can limit G-Helper to do just 0-1 and skip the 2-3

[seerge]

@nebula-it I can limit it to 1, but what is the practical sense in such over complication (it will have to be a separate param or setting). Why don't you just click Backlight+ button once instead of twice ? :)

[nebula-it]

it will have to be a separate param or setting

Yes that would work

Why don't you just click Backlight+ button once instead of twice ?

So for my use case, mid and max brightness level are of on use. Low is already bright enough, so all I need is a quick way to toggle the backlight on and off (where on is just low setting). With the current setup, I can turn it on by one tap but to turn off I have to tap 3 times to go from low>mid>max>off

[seerge]

@nebula-it ah, so you don't have a + / - hotkeys on your device ? Only one that cycles through all levels in one direction ?

[nebula-it]

That's correct

[nebula-it]

Actually, I never seen a device with +/- for keyboard backlight, maybe its the gaming laptop thing with the RGB backlights. Interesting to know :)

[seerge]

@nebula-it ok, try this build

GHelper.zip

It should allow you to add a custom param to %appdata%\GHelper\config.json (quit app before editing)

"max_brightness": 1,

And limit maximum level of keyboard brightness.

[nebula-it]

Yeap that works perfectly, thank you sooo much for such a quick turn around. Really appreciate it :)