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