2 configs (day / night, after sunset / sunrise, 'night mode' etc)

[andiohn]

This would be good to either 'blank' the display with a black screen or to run a different set of URLs that have dark mode?

[debloper]

Wouldn't want PiOSK to track/analyze the internals of which websites are being used by the user (which would be necessary to record brightness/darkness to determine the mode).

Maybe set the preferred mode in the desktop manager?

Or, am I misunderstanding the issue? If so, please clarify.

[andiohn]

I'm basically thinking of 2 'schedules'. Run these websites between these hours, run these other websites during these other hours. One of the options could be 'dark screen' or 'blank' or 'none, turn off screen' or 'just black'.

Also, I wonder if we could trigger dark / light mode of chromium on a schedule too, that way if the site supports dark mode, it would change by itself.

[andiohn]

I'm thinking 'have a good night, see you tomorrow' kind of thing. Or 'we're closed' you know?

[debloper]

Understood... some kind of "after hour" schedule, with alternative link(s).

Can't prioritize this, as this is a pretty niche usecase.

But, for the time being, you can:

• copy config.json into day.json & night.json
• configure each of the day and night JSON to your liking
• add a cronjob to copy day.json as config.json at a certain time, and reboot
• add another cronjob to copy night.json as config.json at another time, and reboot

That should grossly do what you want it to.

Keeping it open for future consideration/implementation.

[andiohn]

That's a cool idea, perhaps. Or even a "kill all chromium, and relaunch" thing so it doesn't have to reboot but your idea seems to be easier

[debloper]

When the feature gets implemented (if/when it does) it will not require reboot. Just kill Chromium, swap the config file & rerun browser.sh should do it.

If you want to avoid reboot, then you can include that in the cronjob as well. I just find reboot simpler, cause less baggage of something messing with the expected result; but I understand there are times when reboot can't be afforded.