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czarny / brisync

Control brightness of external display on macOS and OSX automatically
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Works for about a minute, then stops syncing #42

Open borekb opened 3 years ago

borekb commented 3 years ago

Hi, nice little utility, I like the minimalistic approach yet allowing to adjust the curve. Well done!

However, the utility works for me only for about a minute. After that, the external monitor stops syncing, for example, it gets stuck at 50% (which is the "real brightness", confirmed in monitor's OSD):

Screen Shot 2021-06-10 at 11 58 25

When I go to monitor's settings, the blue bar seems to indicate that it should be 100%:

Screen Shot 2021-06-10 at 11 57 55

And indeed, my MacBook's retina display is 100% bright, but the external monitor (Samsung U28R550) isn't.

When I restart Brightsync, it again works for a short while (about a minute or two) and then it stops.

anthonyrisinger commented 2 years ago

I think this might be solved by https://github.com/czarny/brisync/commit/088054cff25ce191b90db22f81d1618f96f6b2e7 -- not part of recent 1.3.1 release -- I've been running a dev build for a week or more without issue, and it, combined with a a similarly unreleased wake/sleep bugfix, solved a long-standing nuisance every time my MBP woke up.

kirach commented 1 year ago

I think this might be solved by 088054c -- not part of recent 1.3.1 release -- I've been running a dev build for a week or more without issue, and it, combined with a a similarly unreleased wake/sleep bugfix, solved a long-standing nuisance every time my MBP woke up.

@anthonyrisinger how do you go about installing a dev version? I was trying to find something online but no success. Does it mean I have to manually build the app from the sources?

anthonyrisinger commented 1 year ago

@kirach Yeah it's been a while but it's exactly that -- though I stopped using brisync because it stopped working on the latest OSX entirely -- you'll need to have Xcode installed at the very least, and then you download (clone) the code and build it. I'm a developer by day, so I probably did some things second nature to me that I'm gonna forget, but after you git clone, it looks like you'll need to git submodule update --init.