How I fixed a 0..1 brightness slider in vdu_controls (Philips Evnia DDC/CI bug)
A bug in the vdu_controls application caused a Philips Evnia monitor's brightness slider to only show two values instead of a full 0–100 range. The issue stemmed from a malformed capability string in the monitor's DDC/CI communication and a regex error in the software. A fix was developed and merged into the upstream repository.
- ▪The Philips Evnia 27M2N5500Q monitor reported the brightness VCP code twice in its capability string, including once with invalid values.
- ▪The vdu_controls app used an unescaped '.' in a regex, causing it to misinterpret the brightness range as 0..1 instead of 0..100.
- ▪The bug was isolated to user-space Python code and did not affect the monitor's actual functionality, as confirmed by ddcutil.
- ▪A patch was submitted and merged in digitaltrails/vdu_controls#128 to resolve the parsing issue.
- ▪The fix included updates to the regex handling and added test coverage to prevent future regressions.
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