{"id":10028,"date":"2023-05-16T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T19:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=10028"},"modified":"2023-05-17T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T22:55:22","slug":"how-to-install-and-adjust-an-aoc-i1659fwux-15-6-usb-powered-portable-monitor-on-windows-and-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2023\/05\/16\/how-to-install-and-adjust-an-aoc-i1659fwux-15-6-usb-powered-portable-monitor-on-windows-and-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install and Adjust an AOC I1659FWUX 15.6&#8243; USB-powered portable monitor on Windows and Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got some portable monitors: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B06X9C6XFK\">AOC I1659FWUX 15.6&#8243; USB-powered portable monitor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The image quality of the monitor is pretty good (update 5-17-23: my new Macbook Pro screen is much more crisp than the AOC screens!), though you can&#8217;t adjust the colors.<br \/>\nIn Windows, you can adjust the brightness with the open source software ScreenBright or my favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/16\/super-useful-app-clickmonitorddc\/\">ClickMonitorDDC 6.0<\/a> or some others. :-) You can&#8217;t directly change the brightness or colors in Windows 10 or 11.<\/p>\n<p>To get it to work on my Macbook Pro 2019 16&#8243;, I needed to install a driver. Without it, when I plugged it in, the startup screen would flash for a moment and then nothing.<br \/>\n&#8211; Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synaptics.com\/products\/displaylink-graphics\">https:\/\/www.synaptics.com\/products\/displaylink-graphics<\/a> which is the former Displaylink.com. Download and install the driver<br \/>\n&#8211; plug it in and go! I&#8217;m using an Anker USB C Hub to convert the USB-A on the monitor to USB-C<\/p>\n<p>To be able to adjust the brightness, I went to the Apple App Store and got the free and open source <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/monitorcontrol-lite\/id1595464182?mt=12\">MonitorControl Lite<\/a>.<br \/>\nDone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got some portable monitors: AOC I1659FWUX 15.6&#8243; USB-powered portable monitor The image quality of the monitor is pretty good (update 5-17-23: my new Macbook Pro screen is much more crisp than the AOC screens!), though you can&#8217;t adjust the colors. In Windows, you can adjust the brightness with the open source software ScreenBright or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10041,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions\/10041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}