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Issuing custom DDC command to monitor

Open waydabber opened this issue 1 year ago • 5 comments

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I am using a monitor in PBP/PIP mode and I would like to use the internal KVM to "USB Switch" feature. I have reverse engineered the software and found the VCP and value that needs to be sent to the monitor. On a Linux machine I can use ddcutil to successfully make this work. But it seems like Monitor Control doesn't allow you to do this by default (would need to recompile the thing).

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be nice if there was a feature to allow us to issue extra commands or custom ones.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Considered m1ddc but it doesn't work on m2 it seems.

Anything else?

No response

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Transferred from here: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl/issues/1452, originally posted by @acama

waydabber avatar Oct 18 '23 15:10 waydabber

Out of interest what is the monitor you have and what are the DDC commands you figured out?

I am wanting to do the same for a Dell S3423DWC, in order to make keyboard shortcuts work the same as Dell DDM for Windows: hotkeys for USB switch in PIP/PBP modes, and input switch. There's a reasonable chance they use the same commands between models.

andyjenkinson avatar Mar 22 '24 15:03 andyjenkinson

Hi, it seems like this was never implemented ?

acama avatar Jul 30 '24 09:07 acama

This feature is still planned. You can use betterdisplaycli to issue any command though.

waydabber avatar Jul 30 '24 09:07 waydabber