Here is a rip of cybergypsy's brilliant instructions but to do something else.
Putting the following into crontab should in theory put the tablet into offline mode at 11:30 PM and take it out at 7:00 AM.
Well, the dbus commands work as I spent 30 mins figuring them out but I don't know if cron will use them (you also may need to do dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/var/lib/dbus/machine-id as root)
Thanks for all of the great advice and I'm definitely going to see if I can the LED situation improved through cron.
But I was thinking what might possibly be an even better solution would be turn dim the LED based on the light sensor. So the darker it is the dimmer the LED gets. Because the LED tends to fade in and out at times I assume that it's able to be dimmed.
I'm a web developer so I don't have a lot of experience in programming at this level or in most of the languages typically used in Maemo. But if somebody can point me in the right direction I'd be happy to attempt to write something to do this sort of thing. Right now it's looking like I'll have to do my homework on DBUS and maybe Python. I'm comfortable with C# so maybe Vala would be better for me than Python?
That's quite interesting; it's a good idea, and possible from a hardware perspective, but I doubt it's readily doable right now. Support should exist for an overall brightness control in mce, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist now. Alternatively, all LED patterns could be scaled and resubmitted, but I'm not sure whether there's a clean way to apply such changes. That's an inferior solution, anyway; if filing feature requests, the former is what you really want.
(you also may need to do dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/var/lib/dbus/machine-id as root)