Brightness Menulet
Allows you to control monitor brigthness via menu in status bar.
Note: This tool works on OSX 10.8+. In 10.8+, I2C tools are not able to detect monitor buses for communication. If you have tested your monitor(s) with this tool, please let me know wether it worked or not so I can add monitor models here. Preference's Debug button logs to the console VCP codes and their values on the selected monitor.
Features
- Following the internal Display's Brightness (if automatic brightness is activated in the system preferences this follows the light sensor as well)
- Auto-Follow is indicated by highlighting the status bar icon
- Auto-Follow can be calibrated to support displays with different brightness
- Multi-Monitor support
- Key bindings for Darker, Brighter and toggle the Follow-Main-Screen option
- Compatible with OSX 10.8+
Download
If you don't want to build the app yourself, you can download a build version here.
Monitors
Working
- Dell U2014h
- Dell U2414h
- Dell U2415h
- Dell U2417h
- Dell U2515h (not via HDMI)
- Dell U2715h (not via HDMI)
- Dell U2713HM
- Dell U3415W
- Dell P2415Q
- Dell S2216M
- Samsung SA350
- BenQ G2410HD
- Viseo 230Ws
- Samsung SMT27A300
- LG 34UC87M (connection: Thunderbolt)
- LG 27UD88-W
- EIZO FlexScan EV2436W (connection: USB-C to DisplayPort)
- Samsung U28E590D (connection: USB-C to DisplayPort)
Non-Working
- Dell P2715Q
- Philips 4065UC
- Dell P2412H
- Dell U2412M
- HP Z23i
- DELL U2717D (partially)
- DELL DS2716DG
If you have tested your monitor(s) with this tool, please let me know whether or not it work and I will update this list.
Roadmap
- Support for other monitor makes
- Time based settings
- Fading between Auto-Follow values
Credits
If you like this menulet, please use this link for your next purchase on amazon to support me.
- Kalvin126 & superduper — BrightnessMenulet creators
- Alec Jacobson — first version of Brightness Menulet app
- wagenet – DDC Update
- Jon Taylor — DDC/CI bindings
- Victor Miroshnikov — copy&paste&debug job
- Joey Korkames — EDID Reading
- shpakovski — MASShortcut-Framework