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Is there a workaround for controlling brightness as well (via redshift -b)? It's the only thing missing. I find that late at night, the screen is too bright unless at the temperature is set incredibly low (~1900K), which makes things too red. Unfortunately, setting redshift's brightness manually seems to conflict with redshift-scheduler--it would set the brightness but reset after a while (perhaps in a minute or so, which I guess is because of redshift-scheduler's gradual change per minute).

At this point in time it's easy to configure redshift to run at specific times, and to shift colors gradually. It would be nice to update the README.md on this project to indicate that redshift does these things. Might save people some confusion when they're reading this project's README, and would be quick to do.

redshift-scheduler is a fork of redshift, right? Last commit was around December 2014, but the latest version of redshift was released around January 2015.

I've tried to run the program without copying the config file, and it crashed, dumping a core:

% ./build.sh
% build/redshift-scheduler 
[error] Could not create default rules file. The program is most likely installed incorrectly.
[1]    13760 trace trap (core dumped)  build/redshift-scheduler

I'm using the info-redshift-temp script for polybar, which essentially uses the redshift -p command to get the current temperature.

The temperatures shown by this script are not the same as the temperatures shown by the debug-mode redshift-scheduler -d . The temps I'm getting form redshift -p are always higher and mostly stuck at a fixed value (e.g. 4500k) for half an hour even though redshift-scheduler seams to work correctly.

First question: Why does redshift print a different (wrong) temperature?

Second question: Is there an easy way to print the current temperature with redshift-scheduler so it can be used in a polybar-modul?

Thanks for considering and the great work so far!

Needs "redshift -P -O"
('-P' resets gamma ramps before applying new temp)

As changed in redshift v1.12

jonls/redshift#618