Detect Ambient Darkness In The Room

17 Jul 2016

A small bash script to detect if the room is dark. It may come handy for automating a variety of tasks.

e.g. when dark:

• shut down computer
• start a maintenance job
• stop music

or when not dark:

• start music
• bring up your dev environment (if you are that kind of person)

What it does:

1. Takes a snapshot using webcam.
2. Calculates average RGB value of the image.
3. Compares it to the threshold for darkness.

I have used 0x212121 as threshold. You can customize it as per your taste and conditions.