Dim screen then wakeup with a touch of the screen

[Andy-in-Ireland]

I am pretty rubbish at this at the moment.

Scenario , to make my screen 'always on' - so I downloaded an always on app from the android play store and it has a facility to'Dim' the screen after a while but it wont do that on my phone for some reason ... well the app wont.

So I decided to have a go at writing a macro to do it :



so wait 5 seconds - wait 5 second until brightness , that part seems to work OK . But then I am stuck on how to wake it back up to either 50% brightness or auto brightness if I press the screen (is it an 'if clause' I have to use? ) and then continue to dim screen after 5 seconds again to 5%

Any ideas please what commands/trigger/actions I should be using?

Thanks,
Andy.

 

[Endercraft]

You can give "Keep screen awake (on) --> dim screen" a shot but it might not work on newer devices.

 

[mapriex]

am i understand you right that you want with a touch on the screen that it goes on normal brightness and after 5 sec low brightness?

 

[Andy-in-Ireland]

You can give "Keep screen awake (on) --> dim screen" a shot but it might not work on newer devices.

Thank you - just tried it there. it had no effect, my screen did not dim ... it did stay on though, just at full brightness.

 

[Andy-in-Ireland]

am i understand you right that you want with a touch on the screen that it goes on normal brightness and after 5 sec low brightness?

Yes thats right - screen on always (until I disable/lock the phone manually) and go dim after 5 seconds so screen is still on but faint, but as soon as I touch screen 50% Brightness or auto brightness - then when I stop pressing screen after 5seconds screen goes dim again until I touch screen again.

Useful for keeping phone screen on when I want to , but going dim to save burn-in on screen and save battery power - whilst having phone unlocked and ready to go

 

[LF0]

You can try using this app to protect your screen, and it can be used as a plugin in macrodroid

Blackr: OLED Screen Off - Apps on Google Play

Simulate screen off for AMOLED or OLED displays while apps keep running.

play.google.com

Or you can try using the UI click trigger, setting it to work in all apps, and setting the text that needs to be matched to "*"

The macro will be triggered when you click on any interactable text on the screen
You can use it to brighten the screen and add constraints to prevent it from repeating triggers

 

[mapriex]

it looks like a good solution from @LF0
i'll wait for a response from the requester.

 

[Andy-in-Ireland]

You can try using this app to protect your screen, and it can be used as a plugin in macrodroid

Blackr: OLED Screen Off - Apps on Google Play

Simulate screen off for AMOLED or OLED displays while apps keep running.

play.google.com

Or you can try using the UI click trigger, setting it to work in all apps, and setting the text that needs to be matched to "*"

The macro will be triggered when you click on any interactable text on the screen
You can use it to brighten the screen and add constraints to prevent it from repeating triggers

Thanks for the answer - tried blackr and it no good for what i want to achieve.

So getting back to macrodroid I cannot find a trigger for UI click trigger. Is it supposed to be here?:

 

[hsurB]

Its under applications - ui click

 

[Andy-in-Ireland]

Its under applications - ui click

Thank you.

 

[Andy-in-Ireland]

This is where I am at this morment and it works!



However I need (well not need, Like) it to go to normal brightness screen as soon as I touch the screen ... and then when I finish touching the screen to wait 1mnute and then set the screen to 7% brightness.

I would have thought it could be as easy as

Trigger - if screen touched then
Brightness Auto
wait 1 minute
Brightness 7%