Excerpts from Paul Fox's message of Tue Aug 30 16:38:13 +0200 2011: > yes, it's a nice trick. i think it was discussed on this list last year. > it's not very sensitive, but it can tell us the difference between full > sun and not, which is really when we'd want to turn off the backlight.
Given that turning off the backlight usually isn't time critical, how about triggering a measurement cycle only when user space actually reads from the sysfs file? That would disturb regular operation of the nearby LED only occasionally. Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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