Fundamental Limitations
Inadequacies in the DDC/CI design, and its marginal implementation in many monitors,
lead to some problems for which ddcui has no good workaround.
- Actual monitor settings may not match those reported by ddcui
- Some monitors will change their state (e.g. red gain) when the value in the GUI changes.
However, the value reported by the monitor is unchanged.
- Conversely, some monitors report a newly set value, but the observed state of the monitor
is unchanged.
- Monitor settings can be changed by another program, including the command like program ddcutil
- If feature values are changed using the monitor's On Screen Display. The DDC/CI specification includes a
mechanism for informing a program of changes made using the OSD. In practice, this facility cannot be relied on.
- The DDC/CI and Monitor Control Command Set specifications are old. Advanced features of recent monitors,
such as Picture-by-Picture were simply not envisioned and have no (at least documented) integration to the Virtual Control Panel.
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It is possible for feature values reported in **ddcui** to become out of sync with actual monitor
values.
- If feature values are changed using the monitor's On Screen Display.
- If feature values are changed by another program, including the command line program **ddcutil**.
- Some monitors will change their state (e.g. red gain) when the value in the GUI changes.
However, the value reported by the monitor is unchanged.
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Conversely, some monitors report a newly set value, but the observed state of the monitor
is unchanged.
Implementation
- ddcui does not detect that a monitor has been connected or disconnected.
The program must be restarted.
- The value of various special feature codes is not interpreted, but instead simply reported as bytes.
Interpretations of these feature codes will be added with time.