Super cool OP! Well done! :)
Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
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Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#132Creator 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.
As someone who is sensitive to bright screens, lunar is something I use everyday. Thank you!!
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#133What a nice little tool! I have two random no-name adapters at work for my two monitors. One is DisplayPort, and the other HDMI. I wasn't expecting this to work, but sure enough, it does! Both monitors show up and promptly respond to my brightness settings.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fair. I was hoping there was a list of common or known monitors that do this.
You could pay to buy monitors for people and ask them to toggle the brightness until it dies, then record it down on a wiki and opensource this information.
Or there could just be some part numbers that indicate a monitor has this issue
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#135Creator 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.
Thank you for making Lunar! Your app has been a godsend for my multimonitor setup, Macbook in clamshell mode. I tried a bunch of tools, but eventually gave up frustrated after crashes. Love Lunar since I discovered it, it’s been working smooth from day one.
This also saved my multi-monitor set up. Thanks so much!!
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#136All I want is that 50% idle timer that the laptops do.
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#137Cool idea, but I'm a software developer and I cannot figure out how to use this app. Something as simple as monitor brightness doesn't need so many controls, toggles, and things popping up and telling me things. It doesn't follow a single MacOS design convention.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted but I really struggled with this application as well. Sync mode? location mode? There's help text, which I read it several times and I still have no idea what's going on.
The preferences screen is very difficult to use - it's a mix of labels and buttons with no indication that things are adjustable. You can adjust the brightness by hovering over the brightness amount and scrolling vertically. There are multiple preference panes, but they're only findable with horizontal scrolling. None of this is easily discoverable.
I use the software... but pretty much only the shortcut keys (^F2, ^F1). The other features which seem like they could be useful, would probably see a lot higher adoption if the application followed some UX best practices.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, after 100.000th write your monitor is toast because the EEPROM died. Also note that most people change brightness in increments, with each step causing a write.
Is there a way to know how my monitor does this?
Yea, I'd really prefer to not brick two expensive monitors because of this. This thread has bummed me out.
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#139Been using MonitorControl for a while now, and it was great but this is far nicer in my opinion. Great work. The only downside is before I saw this discussion I was happily using MonitorControl and now I'm using Lunar scared to death that one day both of my expensive 4k monitors will just be bricked due to the whole DDC/CI/EEPROM 100,000 writes deal discussed by @herf
Re: Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
#140`brew cask install lunar` works, so into my MacOS init script (laptop.local) it goes!