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(Lunar also has a software-only solution that relied on adjusting gamma values, but that conflicted with utilities like f.lux that also use gamma, could only lower-not increase-the brightness, and lacked other monitor controls for volume and input.)īut Panaitiu didn’t stop there. I did, and I set up this “network control” approach, which was as simple as entering my Raspberry Pi username and password, and then selecting a menu option from Lunar. Since the Raspberry Pi supported DDC, this was almost as good as a native solution… if you had a Raspberry Pi. For such Macs, Lunar’s best hardware-based solution relied on a Raspberry Pi to relay commands from a Mac to the external HDMI monitor. Most importantly, it just worked, and it worked reliably.īack then, Lunar made use of an impressive hack for those of us who wanted to use an M1-based Mac. Even cooler, it could control the brightness automatically based on your location and sync the brightness of an external monitor with a MacBook’s built-in monitor. Its website showed a bevy of options, including a wide range of customizable keyboard shortcuts. Eventually, I found an app that could control brightness and contrast directly from my M1-based Mac mini.ĭeveloped by Alin Panaitiu, Lunar had a steady stream of development, culminating in its official release at the end of May 2021. It’s slow, it’s clunky, and I always press the wrong buttons and end up feeling like an idiot. To control those settings, I have to navigate the monitor’s onscreen menu hierarchy, which requires pressing one of the buttons, using another button to go up or down to the right sub-menu, pushing a third button to select brightness, and going back to a previous button to adjust the brightness up or down. My monitor has four buttons along the bottom, but they don’t adjust the brightness or contrast. Obviously, I could use my Dell monitor’s buttons, like some kind of animal, but as everyone knows: they’re terrible. Every tool that I could find needed DDC support, which is why none worked on M1-based Macs. The reason seems to be that M1-based Macs lack support for DDC or Display Data Channel, a standard set of control protocols that monitors have used for many years. I started digging deeper and realized I wasn’t alone: each of these tools had someone commenting that it did not work with M1-based Macs and it was not a problem that Rosetta could solve. However, owners of Intel-based Macs can use various command-line and graphical tools for this purpose, but none seemed to work on my M1-based Mac mini.
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Of course, that’s not a problem with Apple monitors like the older Thunderbolt Display, today’s insanely expensive Pro Display XDR, or the Apple-approved LG UltraFine monitors.įor reasons I don’t understand, macOS lacks built-in support for these settings when using a third-party display apart from the few models mentioned above. It turns out that Macs can’t necessarily control the brightness on external displays with built-in options. I assumed I’d be able to control the brightness on my monitor using the standard keys on a Mac keyboard or the brightness slider in System Preferences > Displays. This was my first time using a Mac mini with an external monitor as my primary computer.
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I tried again but to no avail.įor the past several years, I’ve used a series of MacBooks-a 12-inch MacBook, a MacBook Air, and a 16-inch MacBook Pro. I reached up and pressed the F1 key on my Magic Keyboard as I had done for as long as I could remember. Not long after I received my M1-based Mac mini, I was working late in the night and decided to decrease the brightness of my Dell monitor.
Total Eclipse of the Mac: Lunar Controls Third-Party Displays
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