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by alin23 5y ago
Yes, retrying always fixes the problem. And for the purpose of getting the latest monitor values from time to time to keep the UI in sync, this suffices. I'm more surprised that I2C works at all over the long, thin Thunderbolt cable of
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by alin23 5y ago
Thanks! Yes, it can be hard to let people know that an app like this actually exists. Some people don't even feel the need for such a thing and just stare hours at a time into a blinding 100% brightness panel when working at night time
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by alin23 5y ago
Yes, I should have probably written something about that as well. Apple vendored displays have a proprietary protocol implemented over USB so that macOS can natively change the brightness and volume. Lunar can take advantage of that as well
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by alin23 5y ago
On Linux, there is a very comprehensive CLI utility called ddcutil: https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil The same author also made some kind of UI for it but I haven't used it so I don't know how it looks or
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by alin23 5y ago
I’m from Romania. Not exactly the country you’d be eager to expand to. But I’ve been using Wise (former TransferWise) to receive ACH payments and payouts from Stripe in an US based bank account. So it should be possible to have any business
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by alin23 5y ago
Unfortunately, I'm not based in Canada or US. I tried signing up as a business to find more users for my app [1] but the country dropdown was a blocker. Is this for legal/tax reasons? Too much paperwork? I can totally understand,
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by alin23 5y ago
> For people that are interested in getting rewarded for having a large contact list. If you know a lot of people, chances are that you know people that want a deal. Orbik rewards you for bringing businesses customers. Not every maker ha
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by alin23 5y ago
That’s already mentioned in the third paragraph but it’s nice of you to also include the bytecode in the comment. > Apparently in 1984, a strange program won the IOCCC where main was declared as a short main[] = {...} and somehow this di
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by alin23 5y ago
Safari on iOS actually does that exact thing when the device is in landscape mode.
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by alin23 5y ago
This is exactly what I needed! Thank you for making it and especially for talking about it publicly! I think shameless plugs should be viewed as more positive. It's much better to find out about a product or tool in a relevant context
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by alin23 6y ago
The idea is great and the instructions clear and easy to follow for a quick integration. (the localhostmagicsquared.net workaround is a brilliant idea) But I see you are using RS256 and that makes me think of a security issue. Since you ar
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by alin23 6y ago
PIO state machines programmable in Python sound pretty neat: > You'll note there's no I2S peripheral, or SDIO, or camera, what's up with that? Well instead of having specific hardware support for serial-data-like periphera
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by alin23 6y ago
> When you map “white” down to gray, you have to drive the LED backlight brighter for the same perceived screen brightness So that's why Lunar[1] reads a much higher brightness and makes all external monitors as bright as ten thousa
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by alin23 6y ago
I have an LG Ultra HD monitor and I have been using Lunar with smooth transition for 2 years now. I have far exceeded the 100k writes mark, probably even more than 500k and I see no problem with my monitor. I think new monitors should be im
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by alin23 6y ago
Hey thank you so much for posting this! I didn't expect this to get so much attention. Also that VESA page is golden, now I know where to point people when they ask me for advice on what peripherals to buy.
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by alin23 6y ago
Only part of that is possible, changing from the current input to another. But as soon as the monitor is on another input it doesn't accept DDC messages on the first input anymore so Lunar wouldn't also be able to change back. I p
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by alin23 6y ago
I think High Sierra doesn't have the Swift 5 libraries. You might need to install them from the Apple website first: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1998?locale=en_US I have that information in the troubleshooting
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by alin23 6y ago
Unfortunately not all monitors support volume control through DDC.
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by alin23 6y ago
This is usually a hardware problem. I haven't found an easy way to detect if a GPU+monitor combination will have a very slow response time for DDC messages so all I can do in Lunar is send the messages to the monitor and if a number of
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by alin23 6y ago
I'm glad you find it useful! Up/down arrow keys can also be used to adjust values in the UI while the cursor is on a value. I mostly use scrolling for rough adjustments and arrow keys for fine tuning. It feels faster than simply e
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by alin23 6y ago
Different users have different needs. The app was extremely simple when I first launched it because I only needed an UI for ddcctl. But as I was gathering feedback from users, I wanted to make Lunar usable in as many monitor setups as possi
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by alin23 6y ago
Hi! The route for log.lunar.fyi just returns 200 now and doesn't do anything. I was just logging the request before but I disabled that in the meantime since I didn't find it useful. I will disable the request completely in the ne
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by alin23 6y ago
Hey thanks for the feedback! I know the UI is a bit too complex at the moment. It's hard to strike a balance between simplicity and configurability. It's still a work in progress. So what does this do: Lunar allows you to change t
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by alin23 6y ago
Lunar should work just fine with f.lux as it only changes the monitor hardware brightness. Color processing from f.lux can still be applied on top of that without any issues. I've been using Lunar with Night Shift ever since it was rel
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by alin23 6y ago
I guess it makes sense to have that setting per monitor. I just have to rethink the monitor settings UI because it seems I can't fit anything else in there. I already have a lot of users telling me that the UI is too complex.
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by alin23 6y ago
Thanks! Yes, there are no brightness change events, but reading the brightness is very fast so polling adds very little overhead. For analytics I've just been using a plain nginx route that logs the request body to a static file, and I
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by alin23 6y ago
Creator of Lunar here. Thank you all for the kind comments and generous donations and many thanks to the OP for posting this! Let me know if you have any questions or quick feedback about Lunar.
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by alin23 6y ago
Lunar is signed and notarized with a paid developer certificate so I don’t think gatekeeper could block it in anyway. It’s possible that in High Sierra you are missing the Swift 5 runtime. You can find details about this in the troubleshoot
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by alin23 6y ago
Thanks for mentioning Lunar! I'm the developer of the app. I've had a lot of feedback on it and users really helped me to fix most of the use cases so please give it a try. It has a lot of options to make it work just the way you
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by alin23 6y ago
You could try Lunar[1] for that. It syncs your builtin monitor brightness to all your external monitors. As long as you have adaptive brightness enabled on your Macbook, the external monitors will also be adaptive. [1] https://lu

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