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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?
You never know if a wear leveling algorithm has been implemented so flash type isn't going to make lifetime determinable. Even without, 100 erases a day will last for 3 years or longer.
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.
Before learning these things I was feeling excited about Apple's re-committing to the Mac around that time, but man these things made it feel like such "commitment" was just surface level - such low-hanging fruit not being handled is a shame. But, this is a rant for another day.
Anyway, I built my own very simple utility to poll the internal display for its brightness and write that same brightness to the LG via DDC, but never had the time/energy to make it more robust for publishing to the web. I have yet to try Lunar but I definitely will; much appreciated.
How does this compare to a blue light adjuster like the built in macOS one or f.lux [1]? I think they would complement each other. Anyone tried both? (Lunar and f.lux) * [1] https://justgetflux.com/
I've been using Lunar with Night Shift ever since it was released in macOS and they complement each other very well at night.
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!
It didn't occur to me that the Touch Bar control might be specific to this display, since the display predates the TouchBar by many years. But maybe it is, since you and other commenters don't seem to see it.
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…
I have the exact same setup and same issues!! So frustrating.
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.
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
My previous laptop was a 2012 Macbook Air, and I used an Apple Bluetooth keyboard at my desk in part for this reason. The laptop keyboard adjusted the laptop screen brightness, and the BT keyboard adjusted the external screen brightness.
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.
Thanks for writing this! When I got an iMac Pro in 2017 with an accompanying LG UltraFine 5K display I was shocked to learn three things: 1) adjusting the brightness on the internal display is easy but on the LG it's a pain in the ass, 2) despite having ambient light sensor hardware the LG does not automatically adjust its brightness like the internal display, and 3) macOS offers no built-in mechanism to sync the bri…
Can you elaborate on why you think that is? I’ve owned that monitor, and it seemed equally easy on both.