From 08b08d69f7fd753f6820dfde2285dc1adead4ba0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Qingping Hou <dave2008713@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 22:42:50 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] kobo: always set light intensity to 0 if state is nil or
 false

---
 reader.lua | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/reader.lua b/reader.lua
index ed201012b..fd53d181c 100755
--- a/reader.lua
+++ b/reader.lua
@@ -124,8 +124,15 @@ if Device:isKobo() then
         powerd.fl_intensity = intensity or powerd.fl_intensity
         local state = G_reader_settings:readSetting("frontlight_state")
         if state then
-            -- Default state is off
+            -- default state is off, turn it on
             powerd:toggleFrontlight()
+        else
+            -- the light can still be turned on manually outside of koreader
+            -- or nickel. so we always set the intensity to 0 here to keep it
+            -- in sync with the default state
+            -- NOTE: we cant use setIntensity method here because for kobo the
+            -- min intensity is 1 :(
+            powerd.fl:setBrightness(0)
         end
     end
     if Device:getCodeName() == "trilogy" then