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

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Post by car » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 7:39 PM UTC

alin23 wrote: post #120

car wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I should add that both monitors are connected via DisplayPort. Also, I found that cheap DP cables can really mess things up. Eventually I found via the VESA website which manufacturers have their cables certified. My go to is called Accell, very solid ever since using their cables. https://vesa.org/displayport-developer/certified-components/

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.

Hey, glad it took off and got you and Lunar some exposure. I’m grateful for it being available free and solving a rather large annoyance. You are obviously very talented, keep up the good work!

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

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Post by car » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 7:46 PM UTC

alin23 wrote: post #119

toasterrepair wrote: post #112

Love the utility! Been using it for a few months now. I’m curious, but is it possible to have the tool change inputs as well? For example, to change from DisplayPort to hdmi, and back from a keystroke.

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 plan to implement just the first switch along with a brightness/contrast reset to some default values so you can easily switch the monitor to another input.

This rather clever cheap hardware and software KVM project is solving the issue in an interesting way, maybe a cross-polination opportunity?

https://haim.dev/posts/2020-07-28-dual-monitor-kvm/

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

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Post by alin23 » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 8:32 PM UTC

neal_jones wrote: post #139

Been 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

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 immune to this since RAM and flash storage is so much cheaper nowadays.