Official Turn Off the Lights Blog

You just installed the Turn Off the Lights browser extension and when you click on the gray lamp, it didn’t dim your whole computer screen except the video player? That’s normal, because the browser extension works only inside the web content viewer. A browser extension can’t change the color in the title bar and work bar. There is no public Chrome extension API to customize this with JavaScript. Only the browser extension can implement a code in the current web page or open a popup window. We create in the extension a JavaScript that creates ‘div’ element, with black as background color and the default opacity value of 80%.

That’s why we develop a new application for Mac and Windows users! It’s called “Turn Off the Lights for Desktop“, this application dims your whole desktop screen by one single click on the lamp button.

Dim your Computer Screen

This app helps you to reduce eye strains and radiation by breaking the brightness limit of your screen settings. The simplicity in this app lets you dim the screen with one click on the lamp button. And two finger click, you get a quick settings menu to change the color and the opacity value of the dark layer.
Of course you can customize the dark layer in this app, so you can have a different color, a background image, a blur layer, or another opacity value. Or even to enable the option to highlight your applications on top of the dark layer.

Advanced Eye Protection Schedule

One of the unique feature is that you can schedule when you want the lights go automatically off. Example, you set dims the lights automatically go off in the week from Monday until Friday. And in the weekend you can leave the lights only off when it’s 11pm until 6am.

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Speech Recognition what is this for a thing? Artificial intelligence? No, this is a feature that is having the ability to identify words and phrases in spoken language and convert them to a machine-readable format. The browser extension can then convert this command to an action or write the text example in the Google search box.

How enable this Speech Recognition feature?

Most modern web browser support this feature, but some doesn’t yet. If you are using Google Chrome, Opera, you are good.

Web Browser

In the browser extension is this feature default disabled, but by opening the Turn Off the Lights options page can you activate this feature. So you can talk to your web browser, where you can say something like: turn off the lights.

Windows Store App

In the Turn Off the Lights Windows Store app is this feature default enabled for Windows 10. Just ask for Cortana, and said the command such as play this video, pause this video, to do the lights off etc. And your personal assistant Cortana do direct this command on your computer.

Camera Motion

This is a pretty unique feature that no other Team has created this in a browser extension nor Windows Store App. It’s when you wave your hand over the built-in camera from top to down, it dims automatically the web page. Cool hé?! And with one single click you can undim the screen or you by waving it again over the camera.

Speech Recognition and Camera Motion still doesn’t work? Here’s the solution in the Turn Off the Lights ‘Question of the day’ YouTube video!

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Autoplay is one of the great features in Turn Off the Lights browser extension that makes your video experience more enjoyable. When you enable this option, and you click on the play button on an HTML5 video. It dims the screen and highlight automatically the video player such as YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion. Want to go back to the previous web page style? Click on the pause button and the dark layer will fade away.

How to enable this Autoplay feature?

The only thing you need is a modern web browser such as Google Chrome and the Turn Off the Lights extension. When both items are installed on your computer:

1. Open your favorite web browser
2. Click right on the gray lamp button in the address bar
3. In the context menu, choose now the menu item “Options”
4. You will see that the web browser open now the settings page
5. Below the preview panel, you see the option autoplay. Check this inputbox are you are done

Doesn’t work? Here is the Solution!

Mostly this is caused by the other extensions you are using in your web browser. To fix this click on the menu icon in your web browser and select the menu item “Options”. Click now on the panel extensions.
On that page you see the list of installed extensions in your web browser. Disable now one by one the extension you are using except the Turn Off the Lights extension.

Want to see the steps again in a video. Watch Jayne YouTube video here on how to fix this feature in your web browser.

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