JoniVR / MonitorControl

Control your external monitor brightness & volume on your Mac

⚠️ This repo is purely for historic purposes. No active development will take place here since the0neyouseek/MonitorControl is active again and I'm actively contributing there. ⚠️

MonitorControl

Control your external monitor brightness, contrast or volume directly from a menulet or with keyboard native keys.

Bonus: Using keyboard keys displays the native osd

Download

Go to Release and download the latest .dmg

How to help

Open issues if you have a question, an enhancement to suggest or a bug you've found. If you want you can fork the code yourself and submit a pull request to improve the app.

How to build

Required

• Xcode
• Cocoapods
• SwiftLint

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/the0neyouseek/MonitorControl.git --recurse-submodules

Then download the dependencies with Cocoapods

$ pod install

You're all set! Now open the MonitorControl.xcworkspace with Xcode.

Third party dependencies

• MediaKeyTap
• MASPreferences
• ddcctl
• AMCoreAudio

Support

• macOS Sierra (10.12) and up.
• Works with monitors compatible with @kfix/ddcctl

Thanks

• @bluejamesbond (Original developer)
• @Tyilo (Fork)
• @the0neyouseek (Fork)
• @Bensge - (Used some code from his project NativeDisplayBrightness)
• @nhurden (For the original MediaKeyTap)
• @kfix (For ddcctl)