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A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease

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18-year-old built a computer monitor that doesn't strain your eyes | Oct 2023
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Most modern displays support DDC/CI or whatever it is that lets your PC talk to the monitor and adjust brightness (and other settings).

Monitorian and other apps let you adjust those settings from your PC.

https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
Screen Apnea | Aug 2023
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You could use Monitorian for changing screen brightness via ddc.

https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment | Apr 2023
> there's TwinkleTray for Windows

There is also Monitorian for Windows:

https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian

Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right” | Oct 2022
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You might be interested in Monitorian

https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
HDMI Firewall | Jun 2022
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There's also Monitorian for Windows: https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
Connecting a gaming PC to Apple Studio Display | Mar 2022
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I have a LED Cinema Display (DisplayPort model) on Windows that surprisingly responds to Monitorian brightness control when I use current AMD drivers. I used to run a specific brightness control app for Apple displays, but have since ditched it.

(1) https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
The State of External Retina Displays | Dec 2021
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Very cool! This lead me to another project as well for Windows: https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors | Sep 2020
The Windows equivalent would be Monitorian (https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian). It doesn't have the adaptive curve algorithm, but I've been using it for over a year and it's indispensable.
Design Tip: Never Use Black (2012) | Aug 2020
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Looking to have easy control of monitor brightness?

For Mac users, look at https://lunar.fyi/. There are a bunch of other options as well.

For Windows, look at https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
Nirsoft Control My Monitor | Oct 2019
Submitted since this solves my, and thus perhaps others needs to control their monitors.

GUI and CLI application to get/set various properties of your attached monitors. For windows. Works over the Display Data Channel (eg over HDMI).

In my case, I couldn't (from Windows display settings) lower the display brightness of my external monitor, leading to eye strain when the room is not well lit enough. This enables my to reduce the display brightness with ease.

There is an alternative, which can only change brightness but does so with a minimalistic gui: https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian (have not tried it).

If not for ergonomics, you can use it to visually be notified when eg a script is finished, by toggling brightness back and forth.

An alternative to _that_ is to use the snoretoast application with something like this:

    alias wakeme='date && /cygdrive/c/Dropbox/tools/notifications-w10/snoretoast/snoretoast.exe -t "hello" -m "wake up goddamit" -p "C:\Dropbox\tools\notifications-w10\mindblown.png" -s "ms-winsoundevent:Notification.Reminder"'
thus, you can "longscript.sh ; wakeme". From https://github.com/KDE/snoretoast