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M1 Mac futzing about with EDID and name of display
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#!/usr/bin/ruby | |
# Create display override file to force Mac OS X to use a different name for the display | |
# This doesn't quite work since it just appends the alphanumeric serial number of whichever display of any given type to all of the names of the that type of display. | |
require 'base64' | |
edit_bytes = false | |
data=`ioreg -l -w0 -d0 -r -c AppleCLCD2` | |
# edid_hex=data.match(/EDID UUID.*?<([a-z0-9]+)>/i) | |
edid_hexes = data.scan /(?<="EDID UUID" = ).+/ | |
# pp edid_hex; puts | |
display_attributes = data.scan /(?<="DisplayAttributes" = ).+/ | |
# pp display_attributes; puts | |
edid_hexes.each_with_index do |edid, i| | |
puts "EDID UUID #{edid}" | |
dai = display_attributes[i].gsub('=', ' => ') | |
# puts dai;puts '*************' | |
dai = dai.gsub(/=> ([^"({].*?)(?=[,}])/, '=> "' + '\1' + '"').gsub(/","/, '", "') | |
# puts dai | |
display_attributes_hash = eval(dai) | |
product_attributes = display_attributes_hash["ProductAttributes"] | |
pp product_attributes | |
vendorid = product_attributes["LegacyManufacturerID"] | |
vendorid_hex = vendorid.to_i.to_s(16) | |
# puts vendorid_hex | |
productid = product_attributes["ProductID"] | |
productid_hex = productid.to_i.to_s(16) | |
# puts productid_hex | |
alphanumeric = product_attributes["AlphanumericSerialNumber"] | |
prod_name = product_attributes["ProductName"] | |
new_name = "#{prod_name} (#{alphanumeric})" | |
puts '-----------------' | |
# I haven't messed with anything in here.... | |
if edit_bytes | |
bytes=edid_hex.scan(/../).map{|x|Integer("0x#{x}")}.flatten | |
puts "Setting color support to RGB 4:4:4 only" | |
bytes[24] &= ~(0b11000) | |
puts "Number of extension blocks: #{bytes[126]}" | |
puts "removing extension block" | |
bytes = bytes[0..127] | |
bytes[126] = 0 | |
bytes[127] = (0x100-(bytes[0..126].reduce(:+) % 256)) % 256 | |
puts | |
puts "Recalculated checksum: 0x%x" % bytes[127] | |
puts "new EDID:\n#{bytes.map{|b|"%02X"%b}.join}" | |
end | |
Dir.mkdir("DisplayVendorID-%x" % vendorid) rescue nil | |
f = File.open("DisplayVendorID-%x/DisplayProductID-%x" % [vendorid, productid], 'w') | |
f.write '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | |
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> | |
<plist version="1.0">' | |
f.write " | |
<dict> | |
<key>DisplayProductName</key> | |
<string>#{new_name}</string> | |
<key>DisplayVendorID</key> | |
<integer>#{vendorid}</integer> | |
<key>DisplayProductID</key> | |
<integer>#{productid}</integer> | |
</dict> | |
</plist>" | |
f.close | |
end | |
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Attempting to run this script on an M1 Max Macbook Pro with an LG monitor plugged into DisplayPort on a CalDigit dock gives me this: