Wind Down Routine for Windows

A simple Python script to automatically render the system color display to greyscale from 10PM to 7 AM. Meant for devices running on Windows OS. Inspired by the Grayscale feature of Google's Digital Wellbeing app (or special settings) for Android devices.

Pre-requisites

You need Python 3 installed on your machine.

Setup

Clone this repository (or download it as a zip and extract it to a directory). Within this directory, execute

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

To test out the script, open your command line interface and run

pythonw winddown.pyw

To run it as a background process at startup,

1. Create a batch file with the following format:

   "C:\Python38\pythonw.exe" "C:\Users\path\to\winddown.pyw"
   

2. Create a shortcut to the batch file.
3. Once the shortcut is created, right-click the shortcut file and select Cut.
4. Open the Run command window using <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>R</kbd>, and type shell:startup to open the Startup folder.
5. Once the Startup folder is opened, click the Home tab at the top of the folder and select Paste to paste the shortcut file into the Startup folder.