Backlit Keyboard API for Python
Details
- External ID
- 47822301
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Backlit Keyboard API for Python
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 27
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7853470437017995
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
It currently supports Linux as of now. You can use this package to tinker with many things. Let's say, if you want to make a custom notification system, like if your website is down, you can make a blink notification with it. MacOS support is underway. I haven't tested Windows yet, I don't use it anymore btw. In future, if this package reaches nice growth, I'll be happy to make a similar Rust crate for it.
Enrichment
- Theme
- custom keyboards and input controllers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- backlit keyboard api for python
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes On Linux, controlling keyboard backlights is simply a matter of reading and writing integer values to the '/sys/class/leds' virtual filesystem via a short Python script.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: RGB testing requires physical hardware, not just CI/CD, Unclear if project is brand-specific or works across all keyboards, No Mac support mentioned
Feature requests: System API for brightness control (increase/decrease), Mac compatibility
Competitors
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Attention rank: #47 of 136 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 168 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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