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Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

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Post by car »

mmastrac wrote: post #2

Also note that MonitorControl [1] might be a good complement to this program - it allows manual setting of brightness and contrast, but also adds volume control. [1] https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl

Lunar also has volume control, could not fit that into the title. It's absolutely great, totally what I needed for years. Other tools I tried crashed my Macbook. Lunar has been absolutely smooth, and great design to boot. I immediately bought the author a coffee.

Edit: updated the title

Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

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Post by harikb »

snowwrestler wrote: post #8

This is a great example of why I like the Touch Bar on my Macbook Pro. When it is connected to an external monitor, I tap the brightness icon in the Touch Bar and get two sliders: one to control brightness on my laptop, and one to control brightness on my external monitor. This seems to be a native feature; I did not install anything to do it.

Is this a particular brand of external monitor? Lunar works for me, but my external monitor is not integrated with touchbar!

Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

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Post by wanghq »

Got a MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) weeks ago and bought a LG monitor (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YGZ7C1K). The brightness setting bothered me for 2 weeks as neither the Mac OSX nor LG's onscreen control software can set the brightness for the external monitor. The external monitor brightness changes every time I open/close the macbook lid. Thanks to both ddcctl and MonitorControl, I can finally set a fixed brightness. Wondering why big corps fail to provide the basic features while some open source software can do?

Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

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Post by bllguo »

snowwrestler wrote: post #8

This is a great example of why I like the Touch Bar on my Macbook Pro. When it is connected to an external monitor, I tap the brightness icon in the Touch Bar and get two sliders: one to control brightness on my laptop, and one to control brightness on my external monitor. This seems to be a native feature; I did not install anything to do it.

But why can't they expose these controls independent of the Touch Bar? I actually find it ridiculous as a 2015 MBP owner that there is no easy native way to do this basic thing unless, apparently, you have a Macbook with a Touch Bar

Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

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Post by mgkimsal »

snowwrestler wrote: post #8

This is a great example of why I like the Touch Bar on my Macbook Pro. When it is connected to an external monitor, I tap the brightness icon in the Touch Bar and get two sliders: one to control brightness on my laptop, and one to control brightness on my external monitor. This seems to be a native feature; I did not install anything to do it.

My mbp does not behave that way. purchased new in 2019. Mojave 10.14.5 IIRC.

Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

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Post by inickt »

mmastrac wrote: post #2

Also note that MonitorControl [1] might be a good complement to this program - it allows manual setting of brightness and contrast, but also adds volume control. [1] https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl

Oh man I’ve been looking for something to control volume like this forever. Doing audio over DisplayPort/HDMI locks me out of controlling volume (since it’s handled by the monitor) so I’m really hoping this helps with that.

Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

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Post by herf »

There is a problem with "cheap" monitors and DDC/CI: some of them use EEPROMs to store brightness settings, and this limits you to about 100,000 writes.

Worrying about this is the main reason we don't ship DDC/CI with f.lux. (I know that some more modern monitors use NAND and don't have limitations like this.) Anyone know if these fears are overblown?

Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

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Post by NegativeLatency »

inickt wrote: post #16
mmastrac wrote: post #2

Also note that MonitorControl [1] might be a good complement to this program - it allows manual setting of brightness and contrast, but also adds volume control. [1] https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl

Oh man I’ve been looking for something to control volume like this forever. Doing audio over DisplayPort/HDMI locks me out of controlling volume (since it’s handled by the monitor) so I’m really hoping this helps with that.

My experience has been that my monitor has limited volume control capability (compared to the knob on my external speakers, which are plugged into the monitor).

It's nice for mute/unmute though

Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

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Post by NegativeLatency »

bllguo wrote: post #14
snowwrestler wrote: post #8

This is a great example of why I like the Touch Bar on my Macbook Pro. When it is connected to an external monitor, I tap the brightness icon in the Touch Bar and get two sliders: one to control brightness on my laptop, and one to control brightness on my external monitor. This seems to be a native feature; I did not install anything to do it.

But why can't they expose these controls independent of the Touch Bar? I actually find it ridiculous as a 2015 MBP owner that there is no easy native way to do this basic thing unless, apparently, you have a Macbook with a Touch Bar

The apple thunderbolt displays have some keyboard shortcuts IIRC, but that has its own host of problems

Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

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Post by car »

cr3ative wrote: post #10

Neat. I have two external monitors which behave very differently though - please make the clipping setting per-monitor rather than global!

> please make the clipping setting per-monitor rather than global!

You could open a feature request on GitHub, best way to let author know.

https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/issues/new?assignees=alin23&...

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