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VU8C Backlight On/Off Control by Monitor Status

This wiki page describes the way how to control vu8c backlight on/off when monitor status is triggered by controlling the related GPIO ports.

[ Ubuntu ]

On Ubuntu, monitor standby time can be set using Power Management Preferences menu.
You can refer to the section, [Set standby time to enter monitor off using power management setting menu] in the following wiki page.
http://odroid.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:c2_turn_off_monitor

1. Set up Default Ports

Add the following lines into “/etc/rc.local”

(1) ODROID-C2

path="/sys/class/gpio"

echo 214 > $path/export

echo out > $path/gpio214/direction
echo 0 > $path/gpio214/value

chown odroid $path/gpio214/value

(2) ODROID-C1/C1+

# vi /etc/rc.local
path="/sys/class/gpio"

echo 97 > $path/export

echo out > $path/gpio97/direction
echo 0 > $path/gpio97/value

chown odroid $path/gpio97/value

2. Configure VU8C control script

Now you need to add a startup task to run the shell script that controls vu8c backlight ports.

Download the shell script

First, download the script file in the path /usr/local/bin/.
And then set the mode as a+x.

(Download one of following shell script)
# mv ~/Download/vu8c_backlight_c2.sh /usr/local/bin/
# chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/vu8c_backlight_c2.sh

(1) ODROID-C2

vu8c_backlight_c2.sh
#!/bin/bash
# VU8C backlight control
 
path="/sys/class/gpio"
cur_stat="On"
 
while true
do
sleep 1
stat=$(xset -q|sed -ne 's/^[ ]*Monitor is //p')
 
if [ "$stat" == "Off" -a "$cur_stat" == "On" ]; then
        echo "monitor goes to Off"
        # backlight off first 
        echo 1 > $path/gpio214/value
        cur_stat=$stat
elif [ "$stat" == "On" -a "$cur_stat" == "Off" ]; then
        echo "monitor turns back On"
        echo 0 > $path/gpio234/value
        # backlight on later
        echo 0 > $path/gpio214/value
        cur_stat=$stat
fi
done

(2) ODROID-C1/C1+

vu8c_backlight_c1.sh
#!/bin/bash
# VU8C backlight control
 
path="/sys/class/gpio"
cur_stat="On"
 
while true
do
sleep 1
stat=$(xset -q|sed -ne 's/^[ ]*Monitor is //p')
 
if [ "$stat" == "Off" -a "$cur_stat" == "On" ]; then
        echo "monitor goes to Off"
        echo 1 > $path/gpio97/value
        cur_stat=$stat
elif [ "$stat" == "On" -a "$cur_stat" == "Off" ]; then
        echo "monitor turns back On"
        echo 0 > $path/gpio97/value
        cur_stat=$stat
fi
done
Add a startup task

Because this script includes the X server utility, xset, you need to add it using Startup Application menu to run it automatically.

Open the application Startup Applications, under System → Preference → Personal.

Click Add button and find the script file in /usr/local/bin by entering Browse button.
And then complete with Add button as described the 3rd picture.

Reboot

After reboot, you can find the script in ps list.

odroid@odroid64:~$ sudo ps aux | grep vu8c

odroid    1521  0.1  0.0   5836  1396 ?        S    11:28   0:00 /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/vu8c_backlight_c2.sh
odroid    1757  0.5  0.0   5564   904 ttyS0    S+   11:28   0:00 grep --color=auto vu8c

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