Lunar
Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display
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Alin Panaitiu

Lunar 2.0 - Sync your monitor's brightness with your in-built display 🖥💡

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Smarter controls and a new Adaptive algorithm for your external displays.

• the brightness/contrast can respond to the built-in light sensor readings

• use the brightness keys to adjust external monitor's brightness

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Wish it worked on regular Macs like iMac, Mac Mini etc
Alin Panaitiu
Maker
@androidlove On Mac Mini, the Location mode and the Manual hotkeys should work as expected. But it doesn't have a built-in display or a light sensor so Sync mode can't work. But I thought Sync mode would work normally on iMacs. Doesn't the iMac already have a light sensor? Also, are you trying to use Lunar on an iMac with another external display, or just with the built-in display of the iMac?
Peter Dziedzicz
Good stuff, see the potiental as in f.lux!
Alin Panaitiu
Maker
@pdziedzicz Thanks!
Hunter Becton
Nice! I'm glad to see this come through :D
Alin Panaitiu
Maker
@hunterbecton Thanks for the kind words!
Pallav Agarwal
Is there a way you could add an incremental increase and decrease in the monitor's brightness just like the laptop screen? I want tighter controls over the changes in my monitor's brightness and this is seemingly quite possible. Maybe like alt+cmd+up/down that changes the monitor brightness would be amazing.
Arz Bhatia
Just logged in to say thank you for this! Helped me a lot with my Samsung U28E590D.
Johnny Lai
It will be great if I can change the shortcut keys. Upvote anyway!
Dustin Karzen
Any chance this will work with Thunderbolt 3 anytime soon?
Alin Panaitiu
Maker
@dus_karz It already works with Thunderbolt 3. Although if you use the LG UltraFine 5K, then that monitor needs a different approach because of the tight integration with macOS. I'm working on that right now, hopefully to be released this week.
Dustin Karzen
@alin23 I have one display that is connected via hdmi-hdmi and one via hdmi-thunderbolt 3 adapter on my Mac mini. both are being detected on the app, but the secondary display (I've tried setting both as primary) will not adjust the brightness. Any reason why?
Alin Panaitiu
Maker
@dus_karz that is a problem with the HDMI to Thunderbolt 3 adapter. Some adapters and most of the hubs don't have pins for DDC or don't forward the DDC messages properly. I myself have a cheap HDMI to USB-C that has this problem and another one that works properly. Lunar can't do much about this, it is a hardware problem.
Matt Lemaire
This app looks awesome. Unfortunately I'm unable to get it to work with my new Mac Mini and an HP Omen 27" monitor. I've tried two separate HDMI-HDMI cables, and I'm unable to adjust the brightness with either. Could it be that both cables are low-quality or that there is something with this particular monitor that is preventing this from working?
Saber007
Great Product. The UX is amazing... Wanted to ask. I have a MBP 16" connected to a Thunderbolt Display and a Dell Monitor via usb c. However I have my MBP closed most of the time. I noticed that when I do close the lid the SYNC option turns off. So I wanted to ask if it would be possible to be able to get the sync data from the Thunderbolt display as that has adaptive brightness based on ambient light. Same as the laptop display. Also when i try and change the brightness in manual mode there seems to be no effect on the thunderbolt display. the OSD shows up and moves up and down but the display brightness stays the same. I have no issues changing the brightness on the dell display.
Nathan Brands
hey guys, unfortunately it doesn't work for me. when i change the brightness on my macbook that is connected to my external monitor nothing happens (yes its on sync mode) someone who can help? :)
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