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by alin23 4y ago
Also check out Lunar if you want more automated adaptive brightness: https://lunar.fyi There’s a comparison table between Lunar and MonitorControl here: https://lunar.fyi/#comparison MonitorControl’s DDC code fo
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by alin23 4y ago
My best experience boils down to: 1. Stick to basic “non-smart” monitors that provide a USB-C port 2. No hubs/docks, single USB-C cable between monitor and Mac 3. Use Lunar for adaptive brightness: https://lunar.fyi From wh
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by alin23 4y ago
I wish I had the expertise to do such in-depth reverse engineering of firmware blobs. The DCP is actually the thing that's stopping me from providing native brightness control on the HDMI port of the newer Macs inside Lunar ( https:&#x
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by alin23 4y ago
Thanks! Happy to hear that it’s so useful!
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I’m happy you find it useful! Well it kinda is up to the monitor. Given how many monitors don’t implement the DDC/CI standard correctly and flash and crash and blackout on simple brightness change commands, it would turn into a PR nigh
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by alin23 4y ago
Well yes, the full Lunar Pro app is compilable. I'm only open sourcing Lunar Free which is not compilable without some mocks, not even on my own machine. But whatever, since all I've had is attacks and flat out stealing from the &
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by alin23 4y ago
I’m not sure I understand, what should I use HTTPS for?
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Does Open Source require the source to be compilable? The free parts of the app are fully open source with an MIT license, you’re free to modify it and add mocks for the paid parts. It’s gonna be hard, but infinitely easier than having to r
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by alin23 4y ago
Thank you as well! It’s nice to see I’m really solving problems and saving people time and frustration. That’s the only thing I like to create software for.
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Thank you! It was built incrementally over the past year to reach this state, so I thought it might be a tad too long and in-depth :) happy to hear you find it just right!
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by alin23 4y ago
Thank you for the snark, but what you probably don’t know is that MonitorControl for M1 wouldn’t have been possible if I hadn’t open sourced Lunar’s code and my reasearch on that. All the work on MC after Apple Silicon is done by a previous
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by alin23 4y ago
Got it! Then I’d be happy if you could let me know if you ever open source it :) it’s something really missing from the ESP32 space
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by alin23 4y ago
Whoa that sounds even more awesome.. or awesomer? I hope I’m not stepping over the line, but if it’s not already open source, would you be willing to send me a source code tarball? I’d love to prototype a DIY solution with it for the people
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by alin23 4y ago
The HDMI port on newer Macs doesn’t work with DDC, I’ve tried to document that here: https://lunar.fyi/faq#brightness-not-changing These HDMI ports use an internal MCDP29xx chip to convert the HDMI signal to DisplayPo
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by alin23 4y ago
I see a lot of questions on the internet on “how do I control monitor brightness on macOS?” and a lot of “just use Control+Brightness Up/Down” answers from people not realizing that only Apple vendored monitors support that. And that’s
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by alin23 4y ago
No worries! The same sentiment is what keeps me enthusiastic about programming day after day :) So computer monitors have support for a communication protocol called Display Data Channel which is normally used by the host (Mac, PC) to get i
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by alin23 4y ago
That sounds awesome! Have you ended up using this DDC library? https://www.arduinolibraries.info/libraries/ddc-ci-vpc-libra... Or did you end up coding your own raw I2C implementation?
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by alin23 4y ago
ddcutil is the standard utility on Linux for that. It is just command line but it’s highly compatible and very easy to use: https://www.ddcutil.com/ I even use it for the network-based DDC in Lunar through a Raspberry Pi wh
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by alin23 4y ago
Well, unfortunately that will never happen because the app would need a full rewrite using DirectX and WinAPI. Fortunately there’s an open source alternative called TwinkleTray: https://github.com/xanderfrangos/twinkle-
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by alin23 4y ago
HDMI offers so many protocols I didn’t know of. Before finding a way to use DDC on Apple Silicon [1] for Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ), I contemplated creating a universal DDC/CI device that can change brightness, contrast, vol
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by alin23 4y ago
Or Lunar if you want more automated adaptive brightness than what MonitorControl offers: https://lunar.fyi
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by alin23 4y ago
I guess that makes sense when you start a product specifically made to be sold. It’s good to have the end product as well defined as possible so you know how far ahead the end result is. But when “scratching your own itch”, docs would take
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by alin23 4y ago
It is macOS only, sorry if I wasn’t clear on that. I was talking about the “Lunar users that were coming from Windows” so I thought it implies that Lunar isn’t for Windows. You can get TwinkleTray for Windows that can do most of what Lunar
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by alin23 4y ago
Most users of my Lunar app ( https://lunar.fyi ) that were coming from Windows, have been praising the Windows multi monitor experience while the Mac felt limited in the handling of external monitors. I admit that finding a way to
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by alin23 4y ago
Yes, in my experience, most monitors do accept DDC commands even if the video signal comes from another input as long as the other input keeps the line busy . For example, on the Pi this was not possible in past, we had to wait for the vc4
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by alin23 4y ago
Unfortunately we don't have access to lower level communication on macOS. Kexts (Kernel Extensions) have been deprecated and now need System Integrity Protection (SIP) to be disabled. Even with that, you wouldn't have a way to sen
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by alin23 4y ago
I don't know of any new monitor that has physical dials, most of them are going towards less mechanical buttons and more touch controls or a single joystick. If you're using a Mac, Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ) can adapt t
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by alin23 4y ago
Lunar developer here. After working more than 5 years on this matter, I might have an idea why the OS doesn't include this by default. Support for DDC is very spotty, with some monitors even crashing and losing video signal [1] on simp
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by alin23 4y ago
Second that, Snapcast is great and the multi room feature is magical. Every friend that comes over lets out a wow when they hear the music synchronized in the kitchen, living room and patio at the same time. I also created a free app to con
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by alin23 4y ago
Also, if you want adaptive brightness and more automated controls, check out my Lunar app ( https://lunar.fyi ) An interesting tidbit: the DDC implementation of MonitorControl for M1 is actually based on Lunar's code and my r

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