github darrylmorley/whatcable v0.16.0
v0.16.0: Smarter power monitoring, and a quieter display check

4 hours ago

Smarter power monitoring, and a quieter display check

The Power Monitor now pins charging to the right port and reads your power direction correctly, a false "your monitor could do more" warning on certain displays is fixed, and Korean is now supported.

What's new

  • The Power Monitor knows where your power is coming from. The System Power card is now source-aware, so it reads the right way round whether your Mac is charging, running on battery, or feeding power out to a device.
  • Korean is now supported, thanks to @dohun0310 (#247). The Traditional Chinese translation also got an update from @jimmyorz (#235).

What's fixed

  • Charging now shows up on the port it's actually happening on. The Power Monitor could attribute a charge to the wrong port: a charger plugged into one port could show up under another. It now matches each charge to its real source instead of guessing by list position.
  • Monitors that use DSC are no longer told they could "do more." Some displays use a compression trick called DSC to fit a high-resolution picture down a cable. WhatCable was doing the bandwidth maths as if the picture were uncompressed, so it wrongly warned that a perfectly good monitor was underperforming. It now accounts for DSC and stays quiet when the display is already at its best (#246).
  • Cable resistance thresholds are spec-anchored. The numbers WhatCable uses to judge whether a cable's resistance looks healthy are now tied to the USB spec and aware of the cable's own rating, instead of fixed guesses (#199).
  • Clearer wording on negotiated power. The text describing the power contract your Mac agreed with a device reads more plainly now (#191, #197).

Install

brew upgrade --cask whatcable, download from Releases, or update in the app.

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