Re:HDMI Firewall
by alanbernstein on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:55PM
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Looks like lunar.fyi is just for Mac, right? Any idea about an equivalent on Linux? I want to add an input switch shortcut on my keyboard, but I want it to work on both machines.
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ddcutil is the standard utility on Linux for that. It is just command line but it’s highly compatible and very easy to use: https://www.ddcutil.com/
I even use it for the network-based DDC in Lunar through a Raspberry Pi when wire-DDC from the Mac is not available: https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/journey-to-ddc-on-m1-macs/#the...
Re:HDMI Firewall
by happyhardcore on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @05:41AM
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This just solved a problem I have that I never knew there was a solution for! It seems really weird to me that every OS doesn't have a native solution for changing external monitor brightness; I thought it was down to the monitor but clearly it isn't. Thanks for the link and thanks for your work on Lunar!
I’m happy you find it useful!
Well it kinda is up to the monitor. Given how many monitors don’t implement the DDC/CI standard correctly and flash and crash and blackout on simple brightness change commands, it would turn into a PR nightmare at the scale of an operating system.
I’m overwhelmed by the daily support I have to provide for Lunar users and I barely have 20k users. I can’t even imagine how bad it would be if 100k users started having their monitor crash or lose color on “such a simple thing as changing brightness”.