noctalia-shell/Services/BrightnessService.qml

pragma Singleton

import QtQuick
import Quickshell
import Quickshell.Io
import qs.Commons

Singleton {
  id: root

  property list<var> ddcMonitors: []
  readonly property list<Monitor> monitors: variants.instances
  property bool appleDisplayPresent: false

  function getMonitorForScreen(screen: ShellScreen): var {
    return monitors.find(m => m.modelData === screen)
  }

  function getAvailableMethods(): list<string> {
    var methods = []
    if (monitors.some(m => m.isDdc))
      methods.push("ddcutil")
    if (monitors.some(m => !m.isDdc))
      methods.push("internal")
    if (appleDisplayPresent)
      methods.push("apple")
    return methods
  }

  function getDetectedDisplays(): list<var> {
    return detectedDisplays
  }

  reloadableId: "brightness"

  Component.onCompleted: {
    Logger.log("Brightness", "Service started")
  }

  onMonitorsChanged: {
    ddcMonitors = []
    ddcProc.running = true
  }

  Variants {
    id: variants
    model: Quickshell.screens
    Monitor {}
  }

  // Check for Apple Display support
  Process {
    running: true
    command: ["sh", "-c", "which asdbctl >/dev/null 2>&1 && asdbctl get || echo ''"]
    stdout: StdioCollector {
      onStreamFinished: root.appleDisplayPresent = text.trim().length > 0
    }
  }

  // Detect DDC monitors
  Process {
    id: ddcProc
    command: ["ddcutil", "detect", "--brief"]
    stdout: StdioCollector {
      onStreamFinished: {
        // Do not filter out invalid displays. For some reason --brief returns some invalid which works fine
        var displays = text.trim().split("\n\n")
        root.ddcMonitors = displays.map(d => {
                                          var modelMatch = d.match(/Monitor:.*:(.*):.*/)
                                          var busMatch = d.match(/I2C bus:[ ]*\/dev\/i2c-([0-9]+)/)
                                          return {
                                            "model": modelMatch ? modelMatch[1] : "",
                                            "busNum": busMatch ? busMatch[1] : ""
                                          }
                                        })
      }
    }
  }

  component Monitor: QtObject {
    id: monitor

    required property ShellScreen modelData
    readonly property bool isDdc: root.ddcMonitors.some(m => m.model === modelData.model)
    readonly property string busNum: root.ddcMonitors.find(m => m.model === modelData.model)?.busNum ?? ""
    readonly property bool isAppleDisplay: root.appleDisplayPresent && modelData.model.startsWith("StudioDisplay")
    readonly property string method: isAppleDisplay ? "apple" : (isDdc ? "ddcutil" : "internal")

    property real brightness
    property real lastBrightness: 0
    property real queuedBrightness: NaN

    // Signal for brightness changes
    signal brightnessUpdated(real newBrightness)

    // Initialize brightness
    readonly property Process initProc: Process {
      stdout: StdioCollector {
        onStreamFinished: {
          var dataText = text.trim()
          if (dataText === "") {
            return
          }
          Logger.log("Brightness", "Raw brightness data for", monitor.modelData.name + ":", dataText)

          if (monitor.isAppleDisplay) {
            var val = parseInt(dataText)
            if (!isNaN(val)) {
              monitor.brightness = val / 101
              Logger.log("Brightness", "Apple display brightness:", monitor.brightness)
            }
          } else if (monitor.isDdc) {
            var parts = dataText.split(" ")
            if (parts.length >= 4) {
              var current = parseInt(parts[3])
              var max = parseInt(parts[4])
              if (!isNaN(current) && !isNaN(max) && max > 0) {
                monitor.brightness = current / max
                Logger.log("Brightness", "DDC brightness:", current + "/" + max + " =", monitor.brightness)
              }
            }
          } else {
            // Internal backlight
            var parts = dataText.split(" ")
            if (parts.length >= 2) {
              var current = parseInt(parts[0])
              var max = parseInt(parts[1])
              if (!isNaN(current) && !isNaN(max) && max > 0) {
                monitor.brightness = current / max
                Logger.log("Brightness", "Internal brightness:", current + "/" + max + " =", monitor.brightness)
              }
            }
          }

          // Always update
          monitor.brightnessUpdated(monitor.brightness)
        }
      }
    }

    // Timer for debouncing rapid changes
    readonly property Timer timer: Timer {
      interval: 200
      onTriggered: {
        if (!isNaN(monitor.queuedBrightness)) {
          monitor.setBrightness(monitor.queuedBrightness)
          monitor.queuedBrightness = NaN
        }
      }
    }

    function increaseBrightness(): void {
      var stepSize = Settings.data.brightness.brightnessStep / 100.0
      setBrightnessDebounced(brightness + stepSize)
    }

    function decreaseBrightness(): void {
      var stepSize = Settings.data.brightness.brightnessStep / 100.0
      setBrightnessDebounced(monitor.brightness - stepSize)
    }

    function setBrightness(value: real): void {
      value = Math.max(0, Math.min(1, value))
      var rounded = Math.round(value * 100)

      if (Math.round(brightness * 100) === rounded)
        return

      if (isDdc && timer.running) {
        queuedBrightness = value
        return
      }

      brightness = value
      brightnessUpdated(brightness)

      if (isAppleDisplay) {
        Quickshell.execDetached(["asdbctl", "set", rounded])
      } else if (isDdc) {
        Quickshell.execDetached(["ddcutil", "-b", busNum, "setvcp", "10", rounded])
      } else {
        Quickshell.execDetached(["brightnessctl", "s", rounded + "%"])
      }

      if (isDdc) {
        timer.restart()
      }
    }

    function setBrightnessDebounced(value: real): void {
      queuedBrightness = value
      timer.restart()
    }

    function initBrightness(): void {
      if (isAppleDisplay) {
        initProc.command = ["asdbctl", "get"]
      } else if (isDdc) {
        initProc.command = ["ddcutil", "-b", busNum, "getvcp", "10", "--brief"]
      } else {
        // Internal backlight - try to find the first available backlight device
        initProc.command = ["sh", "-c", "for dev in /sys/class/backlight/*; do if [ -f \"$dev/brightness\" ] && [ -f \"$dev/max_brightness\" ]; then echo \"$(cat $dev/brightness) $(cat $dev/max_brightness)\"; break; fi; done"]
      }
      initProc.running = true
    }

    onBusNumChanged: initBrightness()
    Component.onCompleted: initBrightness()
  }
}