python3 at 100% CPU

[FartyMcfly]

Noticed that indenting the sleep(1) command in the autobrightness.py got the CPU usage to die down. I do not believe sleep was getting used in the script by default. Not a python guy so maybe I am missing something, but that worked for me.

[morphias2004]

Noticed that indenting the sleep(1) command in the autobrightness.py got the CPU usage to die down. I do not believe sleep was getting used in the script by default. Not a python guy so maybe I am missing something, but that worked for me.

@FartyMcfly you are indeed correct! 👍

The SLEEP was not inside the WHILE loop, so the script was looping at the native frequency of whatever CPU it was running on and flogging the CPU core.

It was causing my Pi4 to overheat and lock up.

A minor typo on the creator's behalf, but easily fixed.

I forked it here with the fix and also resolved some of the permission issues as well as adding support for Waveshare displays.

https://github.com/morphias2004/PiAutoDim