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[Dje4321 (The Packet Wrangler)]

Cool. LED breathing thread is up

Macbook Air 2012 Keyboard Breathing Effect

So ive managed to get my macbook air 2012 backlit keyboard to have a breathing effect. This is done by writing values from 0-255 to the applesmc driver which controls the keyboard backlight Here is the code that does it. It needs to be ran as root to access the driver #!/bin/bash SLEEP=0.005 #Delay for sleep. Controls how fast the breathing is LED=/sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness #Points to where brightness is controlled counter=$(cat $LED) #sets up the c…