dell display manager command line documentation

dell display manager command line documentation

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Dell Display Manager
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Command language
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A rich and flexible command language is supported via the
command-line, and command-line arguments can be combined.
Where appropriate, a specific display can be targeted by
prefacing the command with the display number, e.g.,
"2:AutoSetup"; if a display number is not specified the
command will be applied to the current selected display
or to all displays, as appropriate. Commands include:
 
SetActiveInput [DVI2/HDMI/DP2,etc] - switches active input
SetControl X Y - sets hex control X to hex value Y
IncControl X Y - increases the value of control X by Y
DecControl X Y - decreases the value of control X by Y
RestoreFactoryDefaults - restores factory defaults*
AutoSetup - executes an autosetup (analog only)*
RestoreLevelDefaults - restores level defaults*
RestoreColorDefaults - restores color defaults*
SetBrightnessLevel X - sets brightness to X% (0-100)*
SetContrastLevel X - sets contrast to X% (0-100)*
SetNamedPreset [Movie/CAL1,etc] - changes the Preset mode*
SetPowerMode [on/off] - sets the display power mode*
SetOptimalResolution - switches to optimal resolution
SaveProfile [Name] - save VCP(s) to named profile*
RestoreProfile [Name] - restore VCP(s) from named profile*
DeleteProfile [Name] - delete named profile
SetGridType [X] - changes Easy Arrange grid type to X
Rescan - rescans display hardware
Exit - terminates the program
 
Some of these commands require familiarity with the MCCS
standard. For example, the command to switch the OSD
language to Spanish would be "SetControl CC 0A"; to unlock
an OSD that has been inadvertently locked "SetControl CA 02".
 
Instructions can be combined on the command-line, and
assigned to standard Windows shortcuts with optional hotkeys.
For example:
 
  "ddm.exe /RestoreLevelDefaults /2:SetContrastLevel 70"
 
would first restore level defaults on all monitors, and then
set the contrast level on monitor #2 to 70%.
 
NB: If not targeted to a specific monitor, commands listed
above that are tagged with an asterisk (*) apply to all
monitors to facilitate simple and uniform control over all
members of a multimonitor matrix. For instance, if executed
on a matrix of 16 identical monitors, the command-line:
 
  "ddm.exe /SetNamedPreset Warm /SetBrightnessLevel 75"
 
would set all 16 monitors to Warm preset mode, with a
brightness level of 75%.

TODO:

• Create rainmeter skin that controlls brightness of dell monitors

just what I was looking for. thanks for that!

Also check readme.txt in the intallation location of Dell Display Manager (was C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Dell Display Manager for me).
This listing is taken from that file, and there is some more info in the file (however, this here is the relevant part already)

Looks like this was for DDM 1.x and no longer works. I put together 'documentation' for DDM 2.0 here:

https://gist.github.com/nebriv/cb934a3b702346c5988f2aba5ee39f0d