Alternative feature for when night shift won't work

[dbacks2196]

I've just started using BetterDisplay with an INNOCN 32M2V, and I'm loving it. You rock, @waydabber! I'm reaching out with a feature request. Basically, no matter what combination of parameters I've set, night shift won't work. I'm able to toggle it both within the app's settings and within System Settings, but I haven't gotten it to do anything. However, manual color temperature adjustments within the BetterDisplay menu bar item work flawlessly. I'm not sure if the night shift issue is a limitation of macOS or of my monitor itself.

For users who also face this issue, @waydabber, would you consider adding a feature to automate color adjustments based on the time?

[waydabber]

Hi @dbacks2196 - can you check whether your display is classified as "Computer monitor" by the system? See this tutorial:

https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay/wiki/Enable-Night-Shift-for-televisions

[waydabber]

but yes, I plan to add time of the day based features in a future update, but don't know when will I get there. When I do, it will be made in a way that it works for all controls, including color temperature.

#1871

[waydabber]

An additional note: you can access color temperature controls via CLI (https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay/wiki/Integration-features,-CLI), so you can simply create a script to toggle color temperature this and that way and schedule the script to run at appropriate times. You can use macOS Shortcuts as well.

[dbacks2196]

Thanks so much! That reply was so quick! Sorry for the delay in my response. Woah—I didn't realize you had Shortcuts integration; that just made it so easy 🤦‍♂️. Thank you 🙏

It looks like my display is classified as a computer monitor, but good point because that's actually something I didn't check before.

You're the man ✊ ✊