# ddcctl mit Homebrew, MacPorts installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für ddcctl in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ddcctl
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ddcctl
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install ddcctl
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/ddcctl/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ddcctl
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** DDC monitor controls (brightness) for Mac OSX command-line
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/kfix/ddcctl>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/kfix/ddcctl>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- ddcctl (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

ddcctl is a macOS command-line utility for sending DDC monitor control commands, mainly brightness and contrast, to external displays. The README describes it as a personal GPLv3 utility in maintenance mode rather than a broad support forum.

### Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created in August 2014. Its README says ddcctl.m sprang from a TonyMac-x86 forum thread and that DDC.c originated from jontaylor/DDC-CI-Tools-for-OS-X before being reworked by others.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

ddcctl found a durable packaging niche because macOS users with external monitors often wanted scriptable brightness and input control. The README documents Homebrew installation first, followed by release binaries and building from source.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run ddcctl from the shell to adjust display controls such as brightness, contrast, input source, volume, RGB values, and presets when the monitor firmware supports them. The README also points to an example script for controlling two monitors from a Mac mini.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, ddcctl is the kind of hardware-adjacent CLI that earns a formula because it bridges a small OS capability gap. It is tiny, platform-specific, and useful precisely because it makes display controls scriptable.

### Zeitleiste

- 2014: GitHub repository created
- 2021: v0 release published
- 2022: v1 release published

### Related projects

- DDC-CI-Tools-for-OS-X, ddccontrol, monitorcontrol

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/kfix/ddcctl>
- <https://github.com/kfix/ddcctl#readme>
- <https://github.com/kfix/ddcctl/releases/tag/v0>
- <https://github.com/kfix/ddcctl/releases/tag/v1>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/kfix/ddcctl>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- MacPorts - ddcctl: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/ddcctl/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ddcctl.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ddcctl.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph