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Speaking from experience, download a program that can show what DDC commands your monitor supports before you bother. Mine supports many except… switching inputs (0x60 if I recall). Documentation for most consumer monitors is pretty lacking in this regard, it seems to be a feature mostly on monitors targeted to the professional market.
I've read the project's description and failed to figure what it does. What's a 'USB switch'? Where should this device be connected to? "press one button on your USB switch and all your monitors connect to a different input." - if the USB switch has buttons - why would I even disconnect/reconnect it? The project's description is shit.
If you actually sat and read it, you'd see that it's a piece of software that sits on each device connected to the USB switch and detects the USB disconnect/reconnect events which trigger when the USB switch is triggered and uses them to detect that the device should try to take control of the display devices.
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
... really such a great idea? Even ignoring the curl | sh it's going to bork many systems now having two rusts. Rust projects you're supposed to compile are not ready for use by anyone but other bleeding edge Rust devs.
from a purely software perspective and sort of the inverse of this, everyone should be aware of barrier, the fork/continuation of synergy https://github.com/debauchee/barrier the general concept is you could have 2, 3, 4 or more individual desktop PCs at one desk, each connected to their own displays, and one keyboard and one mouse. The keyboard and mouse are on the primary workstation, you can roll the mouse off the…
from a purely software perspective and sort of the inverse of this, everyone should be aware of barrier, the fork/continuation of synergy https://github.com/debauchee/barrier the general concept is you could have 2, 3, 4 or more individual desktop PCs at one desk, each connected to their own displays, and one keyboard and one mouse. The keyboard and mouse are on the primary workstation, you can roll the mouse off the…
I've read the project's description and failed to figure what it does. What's a 'USB switch'? Where should this device be connected to? "press one button on your USB switch and all your monitors connect to a different input." - if the USB switch has buttons - why would I even disconnect/reconnect it? The project's description is shit.
If you actually sat and read it, you'd see that it's a piece of software that sits on each device connected to the USB switch and detects the USB disconnect/reconnect events which trigger when the USB switch is triggered and uses them to detect that the device should try to take control of the display devices.
A project about cooperatively switching display inputs to get rid of a video switcher should say so in the title.
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I was pretty shocked that most of the ddcutil & other similar programs on Linux weren't working for two of my monitors. The utils couldn't even detect the DDC display. But I told it what i2c bus to send to & what commands to issue, and it turns out my monitors had a pretty wide range of commands. Reminds me of an i2c motor controller I bought years ago, based off some avr microcontroller. I spent an afternoon trying…
Before we get that deep down on monitor tech, I want review sites to tell me whether I can use the monitor/tablet/phone/laptop with sunglasses.
I've read the project's description and failed to figure what it does. What's a 'USB switch'? Where should this device be connected to? "press one button on your USB switch and all your monitors connect to a different input." - if the USB switch has buttons - why would I even disconnect/reconnect it? The project's description is shit.
I also use this setup with gaming consoles so that I don't have to dedicate an entire monitor.