Sensecap D1 not dimming at all

[tome88]

For a couple of years Ive had the latest version of openhasp flashed on my sensecap d1 with the mqtt buttons and the dimming of screen working after 4 seconds working successfully. however when playing with trying to 'fade out' the screen rather than immediately dimming, ive lost the ability to to have it fade out at all. It was previously working with no GPIO pin selected in the display settings, but now after trying that (and all other pin options) and having the web menu set to short idle 4 and long idle 9. I set these options, save settings and reboot and does not dim at all.

I suspect it could be related to my code (which is below) but when i try and change bcklinv to say 10, it just goes back to 0 after a reboot.

"gui": { "idle1": 4, "idle2": 9, "bckl": 45, "bcklinv": 0, "rotate": 0, "cursor": 0, "invert": 0,

I have the following files on my openhasp:
config.json, offline.cmd, online.cmd, pages.jsonl

I find it strange how it was working previously, but not working anymore with the same settings. Ive also tried to force it via MQTT commands but they're not working to dim the screen either. Have also turned off my Home Assistant to confirm its abolsutely sending nothing to my device to interfere with it... Happy to provide any other info but at a real loss to understand what's going on here,

[tome88]

I forgot to say also, I'm not getting anywhere with toggling the dimming options within the openhasp integration within HA, and no success from following a couple of other device solutions which I've seen elsewhere in here

[fvanroie]

bcklinv is a boolean flag, so only 1/0 is allowed:

It's best to logon to the serial or telnet console and type backlight 128 and see the response in the logs... I don't see anything that's 'wrong' in the settings, but if you modified the firmware it's hard to tell what's going on.

In the extreme case, you might resort to backing up the flash and reformat it, then install a fresh unmodified firmware image.
This will possibly break the HA link, and you'll need to remove all HA devices and references before you can re-discover it again.

[fvanroie]

Also, try using the Web UI to change the settings and then go back to Main Menu and click the Big RED "Reboot" button to apply the changes and reboot. Never power-reset because unsaved settings are not applied unless you click "Reboot" or reboot command.

[tome88]

thanks @fvanroie

Prompt > backlight 128[11:33:20.462][102388/114412 10][53292/54300 2] MSGR: backlight=128 Prompt > backlight 128[11:33:20.473][102388/112828 9][53292/54300 2] MQTT PUB: backlight => {"state":"on","brightness":128} Prompt >
From the above and telnet'ing in i can change the brightness manually as you've suggested. I was dreading needing to do a fresh flashing of it as i successfully did it using a PC but dont one immediately handy and couldnt do it via a Mac which is my main computer. I saw somewhere that by adding in files such as idle_long.cmd, idle_short.cmd and idle_off.cmd with them containing along the lines of sleep 5 backlight 10 would that assist? I've tried but it just seems to ignore them. BUT when i manually change the backlight to 128 it brightens up the screen and when i touch it after sending that command is does go back after 4 seconds dim. So I feel I'm getting closer?

[tome88]

I think I'm pretty close now actually. i reboot and the screen is now off. Ive made some cmd files and uploaded them: idle_short which contains backlight 100 sleep 3 backlight 0, idle_long which contains backlight 0 and idle_off.cmd files which contains backlight 0. I also have firsttouch: 0 in my config file

now when i touch the screen (it boots with screen off which is ok) it flicks on screen for like a quarter of a second, then off, but when i touch it again it stays on for the required 3 seconds, and can use as i want to. But every other touch, it does this quarter of a second on/off thing and the next touch works fine... my gui settings for openhasp via web menu is 'idle short' = 3, and 'idle long' = 3 too.

Terminal logs as follows:
Prompt > [15:29:41.146][98292/108308 9][54208/54312 1] MSGR: backlight=0 Prompt > [15:29:41.155][98292/108308 9][54208/54312 1] HASP: First touch Enabled Prompt > [15:29:41.165][94196/106724 11][54208/54312 1] MQTT PUB: backlight => {"state":"off","brightness":100} Prompt > [15:29:41.178][94196/111748 15][54208/54312 1] MSGR: Loaded L:/idle_off.cmd Prompt > [15:30:19.045][102388/114404 10][54208/54312 1] HASP: First touch Disabled Prompt > [15:30:19.056][102388/112820 9][54208/54312 1] MQTT PUB: backlight => {"state":"on","brightness":100} Prompt > [15:30:22.053][102388/112584 9][54208/54312 1] MQTT PUB: idle => short Prompt > [15:30:22.067][102388/114404 10][54208/54312 1] MSGR: Loading L:/idle_short.cmd Prompt > [15:30:22.082][98292/108308 9][54208/54312 1] MSGR: backlight=100 Prompt > [15:30:22.092][94196/106724 11][54208/54312 1] MQTT PUB: backlight => {"state":"on","brightness":100} Prompt > [15:30:22.104][98292/108308 9][54208/54312 1] MSGR: sleep=3 Prompt > [15:30:22.113][98292/108308 9][54208/54312 1] MSGR: backlight=0 Prompt > [15:30:22.122][98292/108308 9][54208/54312 1] HASP: First touch Enabled Prompt > [15:30:22.132][94196/106724 11][54208/54312 1] MQTT PUB: backlight => {"state":"off","brightness":100} Prompt > [15:30:22.145][102388/113332 9][54208/54312 1] MSGR: Loaded L:/idle_short.cmd Prompt > [15:30:23.538][102388/114404 10][54208/54312 1] HASP: First touch Disabled Prompt > [15:30:23.549][102388/112820 9][54208/54312 1] MQTT PUB: backlight => {"state":"on","brightness":100} Prompt > [15:30:23.562][102388/112820 9][54208/54312 1] MQTT PUB: idle => off Prompt > [15:30:23.577][102388/114404 10][54208/54312 1] MSGR: Loading L:/idle_off.cmd Prompt > [15:30:23.594][98292/108308 9][54208/54312 1] MSGR: backlight=0 Prompt > [15:30:23.603][98292/108308 9][54208/54312 1] HASP: First touch Enabled Prompt > [15:30:23.613][94196/106456 11][54208/54312 1] MQTT PUB: backlight => {"state":"off","brightness":100} Prompt > [15:30:23.626][102388/113332 9][54208/54312 1] MSGR: Loaded L:/idle_off.cmd

[tome88]

Ive actually solved this! I made idle_off.cmd note backlight 100.