As the title says, I bought a new keyboard for my laptop, unfamiliar with world of keyboards, I went with the safest option, approved by many, the Logitech G213 Prodigy.
Much to my suprise, I was not able to control brightness with this new keyboard.
- No function keys were mapped to brightness settings
- There was no specific keys for that
- Even G Hub software had no System Action for brightness
So, the dev inside me said, lets tackle it with software!
By the help of stack-overflow and powershell docs, I wrote a simple powershell script, to adjust my brightness...
.\brightness.ps1 <# No agrs will increase brightness (+10) #>
.\brightness.ps1 desc <# desc as arg will decrease brightness (-10) #>
Now I compiled this file to .exe
, to replicate that,
- First Install ps2exe module in powershell (as admin)
Install-Module ps2exe
- Simply use this module to convert ps1 to exe
Invoke-ps2exe .\brightness.ps1 .\brightness.exe -noConsole
First I thought of using AutoHotKey, but i couldn't utilise any function key there. So, settled with G-Hub instead
Now, head over to G-Hub add this file as application, twice , one for +10 and other for -10, remember to add desc
there and then change whatever Function keys you want map to brightness.
FYI: I used F6 key to change to G-shift mode. and F7 to increase brightness and F8 to decrease brightness in G-shift mode. No updation made in default mode.
Please comment, for any suggestion regarding this keyboard, or any wonderful hack you have in mind.
Top comments (5)
Pretty cool! I'll write a post related to tackling this that takes a slightly different approach. Good job:)
Great! Looking forward to it.
could you please give help ?
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Invoke-PS2EXE .\brightness.ps1 .\brightness.exe -noConsole
Invoke-PS2EXE : The 'Invoke-PS2EXE' command was found in the module 'ps2exe', but the module could not be loaded. For more information, run 'Import-Module ps2exe'.
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~~~~~Hey can you pls pls create a video tutorial for this on YouTube. Really need it