Do all docking stations not allow you to change luminosity/other options through os options?

[12345678]

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All the docks that I've tried, do not let you do that.

Without even considering that they just seem to not be liked by oses, displays do often give random issues, and if you were tp wake up a pc under sleep, it won't just wake up the other screens 

[Kisai]

You can not adjust HDMI/DP screens through docking stations because there is no bi-directional information being passed to do this, except with certain monitors (Eg Dell's), in which you need a special tool installed to do this.

 

If you want to adjust the monitor's settings, you need to use it's own buttons or see if it has software to do so: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-ca/000060112/what-is-dell-display-manager?ref=cpcl_ca-en-bsd-fcca82af-9bb0-4ca0-a440-2bbb2a2cf418-dell-display-manager-support-dell_cta_link_forwindows#models

 

Not all dell monitors support this. Most monitors do not in fact have any kind of software equivalent. MSI and Gigabyte also have some monitors that have their own software for this. 

 

You can also try https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/control_my_monitor.html and just see if your monitor reports any settings that can be adjusted in software. I am not responsible if you break your monitor, don't change things if you don't know what it does.

 

USB-C docking stations communicate with the laptop or SFF device where the dock itself is actually presenting the "display outputs" to the computer. That's why when you plug in a dock that has three outputs, you can only use two of them. All three are available, but the combined bandwidth can't exceed the equivalent of two 1080p60 monitors. TB docks bring this up to 4K. 

 

But to answer your question again, it's not the dock that is doing this. The dock is just sending what the GPU tells it to send.  Unless it's displaylink (which is a software GPU, and kinda pointless.)

 

[12345678]

1 hour ago, Kisai said:

You can not adjust HDMI/DP screens through docking stations because there is no bi-directional information being passed to do this, except with certain monitors (Eg Dell's), in which you need a special tool installed to do this.

 

If you want to adjust the monitor's settings, you need to use it's own buttons or see if it has software to do so: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-ca/000060112/what-is-dell-display-manager?ref=cpcl_ca-en-bsd-fcca82af-9bb0-4ca0-a440-2bbb2a2cf418-dell-display-manager-support-dell_cta_link_forwindows#models

 

Not all dell monitors support this. Most monitors do not in fact have any kind of software equivalent. MSI and Gigabyte also have some monitors that have their own software for this. 

 

You can also try https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/control_my_monitor.html and just see if your monitor reports any settings that can be adjusted in software. I am not responsible if you break your monitor, don't change things if you don't know what it does.

 

USB-C docking stations communicate with the laptop or SFF device where the dock itself is actually presenting the "display outputs" to the computer. That's why when you plug in a dock that has three outputs, you can only use two of them. All three are available, but the combined bandwidth can't exceed the equivalent of two 1080p60 monitors. TB docks bring this up to 4K. 

 

But to answer your question again, it's not the dock that is doing this. The dock is just sending what the GPU tells it to send.  Unless it's displaylink (which is a software GPU, and kinda pointless.)

 

Ok.. any other solution (hw) that allows to do this?

Idk maybe using an sbc as client/slave to control the monitors and add extra ports, and using usb c to connect to the main computer? (Not rdp)