Andreas Backx
@andreas.backx.org
Production Engineer at Meta, passionate about CLIs and home automation. 🇧🇪 in London.
Have you ever wanted to test your CLI in an easy way? Perhaps you've heard of Cram? My, team, especially Ulrich Kautz, has done and is doing a lot of work on its spritual successor: Scrut! It's now available via crates.io as well: https://crates.io/crates/scrut
January 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Have you ever wanted to test your CLI in an easy way? Perhaps you've heard of Cram? My, team, especially Ulrich Kautz, has done and is doing a lot of work on its spritual successor: Scrut! It's now available via crates.io as well: https://crates.io/crates/scrut
Monitor brightness control working now from #HomeAssistant. A bit slow due to some #Python code not being optimised yet. But we're getting there!
December 28, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Monitor brightness control working now from #HomeAssistant. A bit slow due to some #Python code not being optimised yet. But we're getting there!
Querying and changing Windows display information working now via #Python! #homeassistant is working as well but needs updating to include the brightness settings.
![iPython code and output:
In [1]: from displays import *
In [2]: query()
Out[2]:
[
Display(
id=DisplayIdentifier(
name="AW3225QF",
serial_number="GZ00YZ3",
),
logical=LogicalDisplay(is_enabled=true),
physical=PhysicalDisplay(brightness=0),
),
# ...
]
In [3]: updates = [
...: DisplayUpdate(
...: id=display.id,
...: physical=PhysicalDisplayUpdateContent(
...: brightness=50,
...: ),
...: logical=LogicalDisplayUpdateContent(
...: is_enabled=True,
...: ),
...: )
...: for display in query()
...: ]
In [4]: apply(updates)
Out[4]: []](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6rmk7fvmohooucz2gaaa4xw7/bafkreifyhbfssmraq6g3bukckvsdeng7zi3dmu5qifebkxgd3myqqny3he@jpeg)
December 17, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Querying and changing Windows display information working now via #Python! #homeassistant is working as well but needs updating to include the brightness settings.
Wonderful how easy it is to do a DIY #homeassistant bed sensor with off the shelf Aqara water leak sensors. Thanks to this great article! www.homeautomationguy.io/blog/making-...
December 14, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Wonderful how easy it is to do a DIY #homeassistant bed sensor with off the shelf Aqara water leak sensors. Thanks to this great article! www.homeautomationguy.io/blog/making-...
Getting there with my library to control displays. First on Windows, then Linux. Easily change display config and monitor settings. Available first in Rust, then Python, and finally #homeassistant via MQTT!
![Working Rust code to change Windows display config and brightness:
let displays = Displays::try_new()?;
let found_displays = displays.query()?;
println!("{found_displays:#?}");
let updates = vec![DisplayUpdate {
id: DisplayIdentifier {
// name: Some("Display name".to_string()),
serial_number: Some("U1HMF6PT".to_string()),
..Default::default()
},
physical: Some(PhysicalDisplayUpdateContent {
brightness: Some(100),
}),
logical: Some(LogicalDisplayUpdateContent {
is_enabled: Some(true),
}),
..Default::default()
}];
displays
.update(updates)
.context("failed updating displays")?;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6rmk7fvmohooucz2gaaa4xw7/bafkreibfajgr2rghov5a2oyxvvgvarey6wngajy7wm7tsaj4qagtot7d2e@jpeg)
December 8, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Getting there with my library to control displays. First on Windows, then Linux. Easily change display config and monitor settings. Available first in Rust, then Python, and finally #homeassistant via MQTT!
Update: figured it out!
![[
Display {
physical: PhysicalDisplayWindows {
path: "\\\\?\\DISPLAY#DELA246#7&289ec95a&0&UID260",
name: "AW3225QF",
serial_number: "GZ00YZ3",
},
logical: LogicalDisplayWindows {
target: TargetDevice {
name: "AW3225QF",
path: "\\\\?\\DISPLAY#DELA246#7&289ec95a&0&UID260#{e6f07b5f-ee97-4a90-b076-33f57bf4eaa7}",
},
is_enabled: true,
},
},
Display {
physical: PhysicalDisplayWindows {
path: "\\\\?\\DISPLAY#LEN66F9#7&289ec95a&0&UID256",
name: "Y32p-30",
serial_number: "U1HMF6PN",
},
logical: LogicalDisplayWindows {
target: TargetDevice {
name: "Y32p-30",
path: "\\\\?\\DISPLAY#LEN66F9#7&289ec95a&0&UID256#{e6f07b5f-ee97-4a90-b076-33f57bf4eaa7}",
},
is_enabled: true,
},
},
Display {
physical: PhysicalDisplayWindows {
path: "\\\\?\\DISPLAY#LEN66F9#7&289ec95a&0&UID264",
name: "Y32p-30",
serial_number: "U1HMF6PT",
},
logical: LogicalDisplayWindows {
target: TargetDevice {
name: "Y32p-30",
path: "\\\\?\\DISPLAY#LEN66F9#7&289ec95a&0&UID264#{e6f07b5f-ee97-4a90-b076-33f57bf4eaa7}",
},
is_enabled: true,
},
},
]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6rmk7fvmohooucz2gaaa4xw7/bafkreiezkc6zakknb4eootgzwabbzulocrmet2y7wno4zmsk2kumzylazu@jpeg)
December 7, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Update: figured it out!