App doesn't read brightness after waking up

[fidwj01]

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Describe the bug

When the screen wakes up from being off, changing the brightness from the MacBook keyboard won't update the app which causes "sync brightness" to not work. I've tried every options under "Upon startup or wake", nothing worked.

Restarting the app can fix the issue.

Steps to reproduce

1. Enable "Sync brightness changes from Built-in and Apple displays"
2. Put the computer to sleep or wait until the display is off
3. Wake up the computer
4. Change brightness from the Touch Bar/built-in keyboard
5. The change in brightness won't be detected by the app unless you restart the app

Expected behavior

It should behave the same after the computer wakes up from sleep/display off.

Anything else?

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Environment Information (please complete the following information)

- macOS version: 13.4 Ventura
- Mac model: MacBook Pro 15 2017
- MonitorControl version: 4.1.0 Build 7034
- Monitor(s): Built-in screen and LG HDR WQHD
- Apple Silicon/M1 (yes or no): no

[Anywhere-Music-Player]

Same here, also Volume reset too. When I change volume using keys - it sets to 0 in real, but still showing like it set.

And during this, changing volume do nothing - it always stays 0 in real value.
Restart of the app bring volume to normal value.

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[Anywhere-Music-Player]

@waydabber pls implement!

[waydabber]

Hi @volodymyr-13 - this should work in BetterDisplay. All MC features (and more) are available for free in BetterDisplay. I don't plan on any major future changes in MonitorControl 4 as it's code is very outdated by now.

[Anywhere-Music-Player]

@waydabber i already told about it, it’s super overwhelmed app which is just hard to use for a basic needs. I will never use it.
so please update this app, thanks.

[waydabber]

I understand your perspective. I might release a simplified version as MonitorControl 5 focusing only on brightness and volume control, if I get permission from the other maintainers to move forward with MonitorControl. Right now the consensus is that MC is done and I have no permission to take over the project alone. If this by any chance changes, it will be obvious. Sorry.

I don't see the point in creating a BetterDisplay Lite just to simplify an aspect of the app as that would be confusing + majority of users can live with the complexity or if they don't want to, they can simply turn off the offending menu items under Settings/Menu to make the app menu clean and simple. :) Making an app with an other name (other than MonitorControl or BetterDipslay) also seems like a bad idea, I don't want to start building an other "similar but still somewhat different" app from scratch under a different name trying to gather a suitable userbase for it.

[Anywhere-Music-Player]

@waydabber just hide all nonsense and make your BetterDisplay same as this app.
I think you could add some landing options:

• basic
• advanced

so if I chose basic, I will get like monitor control app in general, and also all overwhelmed menus structure will not be there.. oh my I even now trying to remember how I tried to navigate there.. that is madness.

[waydabber]

I think by default the app simply shows the brightness and resolution slider only, all other menu items collapsed. This does not seem too complicated to me, but I understand we all have different perspectives.

If you want to see different things in the menu, please navigate to Settings > Menu > Customize Menu Options.

Or of course you can keep using MonitorControl 4, but please understand, I will not substantially update the app. I added basic Sequoia compatibility in an unofficial release - if it is required, I'll probably provide more such unofficial compatibility updates, but that's about it (note: I don't have the credentials required to build a version that can properly auto-update official builds). The unofficial build can be found here: https://github.com/waydabber/MonitorControl

[Anywhere-Music-Player]

@waydabber

I just downloaded it and remove it, again. So the madness is here:
I have to scroll 4 screen pages of settings of monitor? Lol no thanks.

Vs just simplicity:

[waydabber]

Right, if you intentionally open all Additional settings... blocks, then indeed, the Settings UI can get quite large. :) Also, the menu if you keep open the Tools section and unfold additional menus can get quite large. As for the onboarding and DDC configuration notifications, those go away as soon as you click on them at least once so you get to know how to use the app and let the app auto-configure DDC (you can of course do it manually as well).

But as I said, you can use either app, both are great and I live them both dearly, it's just that MonitorControl as it stands won't be developed further at least not officially - even if I wanted to develop it further, it's not entirely my decision anyway.

Thanks for all the feedback and take care! :)

[Anywhere-Music-Player]

No no, you don't understand I'm not interested at all in figuring our what I have to..
I just don't need that because it's overwhelming. Period.

I'm thinking just asking from developer to rewrite this app from the ground up maybe.. since I don't need that madness overwhelming.

[waydabber]

All right, thanks again for the feedback and perspective, I'll consider these inputs as I develop the app. For sure, you or any developer is free to fork MonitorControl (as it is open source) and improve upon it any way you find best suited to your needs. Just note that changes will probably not get to the official builds, but any number of unofficial builds can exist or even take over the original in popularity, no problem with that.