Get monitor user friendly name

[BruceLee569]

Each monitor returns a name that simply shows \\.\DISPLAY plus numbers, it is difficult to tell which one, after more than an hour of query, finally got the windows platform display specific model acquisition method, the code is as follows:

cmd = r"""
$Monitors = Get-WmiObject WmiMonitorID -Namespace root\wmi; 
ForEach ($Monitor in $Monitors) 
{ [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($Monitor.UserFriendlyName) }
"""
proc = subprocess.run(["powershell", "-Command", cmd], capture_output=True)
ret = proc.stdout.decode()
print(ret.strip().replace('\x00', '').split())

Maybe the next release can add this 😀

By the way, If you use QT for python development, there is also built-in support for methods for obtaining display information, and qt is cross platform.

[ReenigneArcher]

+1 for this

[gitagogaming]

+1 for this as well, would be great to be able to access this with screeninfo

[KillerBOSS2019]

+1 for this too

[nsde]

Thanks for providing the code snippet! Mi Monitor sounds much better than \\\\.\\DISPLAY1.

I know this isn't going to be implemented, as this is way too much bloat for a simple screen info checker. But for anyone interested – I'd just like to mention that using the following script, you can get the actual monitor name:

import wmi
import bs4
import requests

from pprint import pprint

wmi_ = wmi.WMI() 

for monitor in wmi_.Win32_DesktopMonitor():
    monitor_code = monitor.PNPDeviceID.split('\\')[1]
    # monitor_code = 'gbt2701'
    url = f'https://linux-hardware.org/?view=search&name={monitor_code}#list'

    # get the HTML
    html = requests.get(url=url, timeout=10, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla'}).text

    soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')

    # get the table
    table = soup.select_one('#devices.tbl.highlight.dev_info.dev_list')

    device = table.select_one('td.device').text.split('-inch')[0].replace('.0', '') + '"'
    brand = table.select_one('td.vendor').text

    # now turn the table into a dictionary
    specs = {
        'code': monitor_code,
        'product': ' '.join(device.split()[:-4]),
        'resolution': device.split()[-3],
        'size': device.split()[-2],
        'inches': float(device.split()[-1].replace('"', '')),
        'brand': brand,
    }

    pprint(specs)

Which returns something like:

{
    'brand': 'Gigabyte Technology',
    'code': 'gbt2701',
    'inches': 27.8,
    'product': 'AORUS AD27QD',
    'resolution': '2560x1440',
    'size': '609x355mm'
}