External Monitor Brightness Control?

[jonadam23]

I'm sure this is not possible but I thought I would ask anyway, is it possible to control an external monitor's brightness through windows or some software. My monitor (Acer H326HL) is great but it adjusting the display brightness through the monitor itself is a clumsy and slow process. Natural lighting in my room varies quite considerably so it would be nice to be able to easily adjust the brightness of the display for optimal viewing.

 

[drxuess]

In short, no, your hdmi/displayport/dvi cannot carry hardware information to your monitor. Further your GPU does not have control over external monitor's hardware. All in all, basically impossible unless you are willing to do a custom mod of your monitor.

 

[jonadam23]

In short, no, your hdmi/displayport/dvi cannot carry hardware information to your monitor. Further your GPU does not have control over external monitor's hardware. All in all, basically impossible unless you are willing to do a custom mod of your monitor.

As I expected. Thanks for the clarification though!

 

[anduert]

I use for my external monitor the following tool:

http://clickmonitorddc.bplaced.net/

ClickMonitorDDC 1.6 freeware

simply click the notification icon in the taskbar tray area to adjust brightness or contrast of your monitor,
much more comfortable and faster than manually messing around with your monitor-buttons.

The notification icon informs you about the monitor values,
you simply look at the icon to check if the wanted values are already set,
no need for moving the mouse over the icon for a tooltip or even click the icon.

supports link command-line arguments, for instance b 20 c 30
you can prepend monitornumber (1 or higher), for instance 2 c 55 b 40
x for shutting down monitor
supports autostart

The portable standalone file can be run from any location without installation,
requires at least windows 7 and Display Data Channel (DDC) compatible devices.

 

[Lukasz_6]

I use for my external monitor the following tool:

http://clickmonitorddc.bplaced.net/

ClickMonitorDDC 1.6 freeware

simply click the notification icon in the taskbar tray area to adjust brightness or contrast of your monitor,
much more comfortable and faster than manually messing around with your monitor-buttons.

The notification icon informs you about the monitor values,
you simply look at the icon to check if the wanted values are already set,
no need for moving the mouse over the icon for a tooltip or even click the icon.

supports link command-line arguments, for instance b 20 c 30
you can prepend monitornumber (1 or higher), for instance 2 c 55 b 40
x for shutting down monitor
supports autostart

The portable standalone file can be run from any location without installation,
requires at least windows 7 and Display Data Channel (DDC) compatible devices.

This tool is brilliant. Better than win10