Changing Brightness

[Priyank]

Hi I am having some trouble adjusting the brightness for the STM32F7.

I used this in main.c, and externed it 

I tried using this in model.cpp and in main.c, neither seems to adjust the brightness of the display.

void setDutyCycle(float duty_cycle) {
  if (duty_cycle > 100) duty_cycle = 100;
  if (duty_cycle < 0  ) duty_cycle = 0;

  float pw_resolution = (((float)99 + 1.0f) / 100.0f);

  uint16_t pw_desired = pw_resolution * duty_cycle;
  __HAL_TIM_SET_COMPARE( &htim2, TIM_CHANNEL_3, pw_desired );
}

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[Tesla DeLorean]

Attach a scope, check the output.

Drive the TIM2->CCR3 manually, confirm it does what you expect.

Confirm you're writing in the values you think you are.

[Peter BENSCH]

@Priyank Your problem starts with the fact that you absolutely want to pass the duty cycle as a float. Wouldn't it be easier to treat it as a percentage and e.g. uint8_t?

But even if you use float, you must also use everything that has to do with it as float. For example, you query:

if(duty_cycle > 100)...

which should be expressed as:

if(duty_cycle > 100.0)...

Anyway, the best thing would also be to work with direct register programming first, as @Tesla DeLorean has recommended.

Regards
/Peter