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Old 06-18-2016, 03:58 AM   #31
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No. The frontlight access works different on a PW3 system level. On a first glimpse I haven't found how to get it working. Maybe somebody else have found on which button we have to press.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...8&postcount=48

Might be useful? Just came from there. I don't have a pw3, just dropping in case helps
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Old 06-18-2016, 08:38 AM   #32
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No. The frontlight access works different on a PW3 system level. On a first glimpse I haven't found how to get it working. Maybe somebody else have found on which button we have to press.
Or perhaps more recently:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...2&postcount=40
and following.
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Old 06-18-2016, 11:58 AM   #33
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Or perhaps more recently:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...2&postcount=40
and following.
The actual PW2/PW3 (and later?) KUAL extension in that thread is attached to this post:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...13#post3323913
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Old 08-24-2016, 08:13 AM   #34
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I'm not familiar with lipc calls, but does this extension wake up the CPU every 15 seconds or something?
I am worried about battery life.
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Old 08-24-2016, 08:54 AM   #35
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I'm not familiar with lipc calls, but does this extension wake up the CPU every 15 seconds or something?
I am worried about battery life.
Why would it wake from sleep?
There is no reason for it to wake up when the front light is normally off.
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Old 08-25-2016, 07:25 AM   #36
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For your information, This "front light master extension" also work for the kindle voyage.
I've installed it and it work perfectly ;-)
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Old 08-26-2016, 03:30 PM   #37
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Not from sleep, but while I am reading.
Let's say I am reading through a page; will this extension run code every 15 seconds even if I don't change the brightness?
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Old 08-28-2016, 05:28 AM   #38
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Not from sleep, but while I am reading.
Let's say I am reading through a page; will this extension run code every 15 seconds even if I don't change the brightness?
During reading, it will "run" when the check interval is reached or when you turn the Kindle off. The check interval is set to 15 seconds (see frontlightmaster.sh line 139). If you do not make use of the schedule functionality, you can set the CHECKINTERVAL value in config.sh (line 6) to something more to your liking (maybe not too high, but up to once an hour = 3600 seconds should not be a problem).

Apart from that: waking once every 15 seconds for minimal checks is not going to have a very noticeable impact on battery use.

If you want to verify how often the script wakes, you can enable the logging (or keep it enabled) and set the LOGFILE parameter (config.sh line 42) to a file. Then after some use check the file contents - as you can see in frontlightmaster.sh, it outputs a date-time-stamped message every time it runs.
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Old 08-29-2016, 02:51 PM   #39
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The script does not awake after 15s is the Kindle is suspended. Running this check every 15s while active does indeed consume only little power. As it is open source one may use a lipc and wait for frontlight changes before running this test - if there is such event (lipc-wait-event -s 3600 com.lab126....).
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Old 08-31-2016, 10:21 AM   #40
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so even if the schedule functionality is disabled (which is the default), the extension will be polling every 15 seconds?
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Old 10-15-2016, 12:18 PM   #41
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I just bought my first Kindle two days ago, the PW3 (v5.7.4). The "Front Light Master" works, I'm happy to report! This was the one thing that really made me ragey, not being able to completely turn OFF the darn light even at the lowest setting.

Just had to sign up here to report in, thanks to the kind people of this forum I am so very happy with my Kindle.
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Old 11-05-2016, 10:13 PM   #42
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I can't get it to open with lights turned off. I also can't get it to turn off lights through the regular menu.

On the config.sh I set the OFFVALUE=1, but when I set the brightness to 1 or 0 it never turns off the LED. What other values must I change?

I also set MINIMUMBRIGHTNESSONSTART=5, but it doesn't work.
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Old 11-06-2016, 08:49 AM   #43
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Old 11-06-2016, 04:07 PM   #44
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I didn't mention that I could turn the FL off through its KUAL extension button.

To reiterate, I can't turn the FL off through the regular method. I opened the config.sh and set OFFVALUE=1, but when I change the brightness to 1 or 0 it doesn't turn the FL off. What other values must I change?

I also set MINIMUMBRIGHTNESSONSTART=5, but that doesn't work either.
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Old 11-10-2016, 03:06 PM   #45
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