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Turned on XDR by PS5, with 4K@60Hz!
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I believe that this adapter of Club-3d only works on Ultrafine 4K, but not Ultrafine 5K and XDR. That's probably why I'm very excited that we are among the first group of people who actually turned on XDR with PS5.
It's a little bit complicated at the moment. My friend is using at least two PCB to achieve that. Later this year, they might want to release this adapter which could be universally adapt to any USB-C screens.
I am afraid that this is confidential at the moment. I'm only providing the XDR for testing - the adapter/PCB is by my friend, who is also doing this at spare time, but he owns the intelletual property. I'm just sharing that it's possible, so many of others might have faith of coming up with newer and better solutions. (My friend's current solution is not perfect, as he DID mention something about losing some color accuracy)
Not sure why it wouldn't work with UltraFine 5K and XDR, since they can accept USB 2.0 + DisplayPort Alt Mode over USB-C instead of Thunderbolt input.
Also don't know why this is not working. This topic is too complicated for me. I just hope that the human being could come up with a unified port so that there is no need to have any sort of 'adapter' any more.
Being an XDR user myself, I really hope such product would be available on the market, too. I would definetely spend $200 or so on such solution without any hesitation.
But reality is, even my friend doesn't have any motivation to expodite this project, given such small market potential. It has been more than a year, and there has been at least three versions before today, and he has come to my office for testing for countless times, and the PS5 never turned on the XDR screen until this morning. Really difficult. Not sure if this kind of effort is worthwhile.
Maybe PS5 doesn't like the EDID from XDR using CAC-1332 and is too dumb to use a default timing that is usable by the XDR and is too dumb to let the user choose a timing. Therefore the solution is to somehow override the EDID that is sent to the PS5. There are EDID emulators but the cheap ones make you copy an EDID from an existing display rather than let you upload an EDID? Some will let you choose from a set of preprogrammed EDIDs but you can't edit those pre-programmed EDIDs? I didn't do a lot of checking but here's an example:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S773J5J
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S773J5J
I have successfully been able to do this with my PS4 Pro, it should also work for the PS5 I hope, I’ll test that soon. (Edit: it also works for the PS5)
I used these to make it happen with the EDID set to green (4K 60hz).
1 GoFanco Pro-HD2DP HDMI2.0 to DP1.2 converter
2 Bi-Directional DisplayPort to USB C Cable
I used these to make it happen with the EDID set to green (4K 60hz).
1 GoFanco Pro-HD2DP HDMI2.0 to DP1.2 converter
2 Bi-Directional DisplayPort to USB C Cable
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The only peculiarity I've run into so far is the first time powering on it went through the PS logo to black screen with blinking blue light; however I left it there for a few minutes or so and it finally loaded up the first post-boot screen. I also had HDCP turned on though so that may present a hurdle for it; I've since disabled that in the PS settings, not sure if that matters though. Waking from sleep has been very quick though since then.
I've added this Thunderbolt 4 extension cable as well so I'm not having to get back behind the XDR display every time I want to swap inputs from my PS5 to my MacBook Pro. This should also help avoid wearing out that port for frequent swapping.
In addition, I've connected a stereo cable to the 3.55mm port on the GoFanco converter and connected that to a splitter to isolate the input into my 2019 MacBook Pro so I can pass through the audio to my airplay HomePods from the PS5 when also Quicktime's record audio function to just pass the audio through to speakers as a monitor.
While not the most elegant solution for the audio, it works. I'd like to find a way to use the higher quality SPDIF/Toslink but I haven't tried any of the potential converter options for that yet to get the audio into my laptop. Though it would be easier to connect it directly to a receiver or compatible speakers; I'm focused on using my two HomePods.
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Is there anything else available besides this HDMI 2.0 to DP1.2 converter? I can't buy them where I am
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Thank you so much for your sharing your set up!
Thunderbolt 4 extension cable you mentioned is also really a good touch. I should try that as well
I have been trying to get ps5 to turn on my xdr for quite some time (over a year lol), and I have also explored some solutions but they all failed.
For example, back to January 2021, I tried the first iteration of HDMI to USB-C convertor mentioned by PCuser214 in the following topic
Combination PS4 and XDR display
Is it possible to use a PS4 or PS5 in combination with Apple XDR display?
forums.macrumors.com
which is this exact convertor https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08PQBPR7L/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Even though PCuser214 demoed that that specific convertor can turn on his lg ultrafine 5k, it does not turn on my pro display xdr unfortunately, maybe for the reason that joevt mentioned in https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/turned-on-xdr-by-ps5-with-4k-60hz.2308707/post-30209496 which is a bit too technical for me to digest personally.
I haven't tried PCuser214's new iteration of convertor, but I am afraid it would have the same issue: working for lg ultrafine 5k but not xdr.
I have some questions that I hope you can kindly reply:
(1) Can you confirm that it is 4k 60hz while your xdr is connected to ps5?
(2) Can you adjust xdr brightness while it is connected to ps5? Based on my knowledge, it can only be done via Mac OS..
On a side note, I am not sure if you have the issue with xdr but sometimes when I wake up my macbook pro connected to xdr, xdr will turn on at full brightness, and I have to adjust it down to properly level. So I assume that when using your setup, ps5 can turn on xdr but xdr will be at full brightness with no way to adjust it...
@Recscue Wow. Thank you! I have been trying to get my PS5 to work on my LG UltraFine 24MD4KL monitor for months. Finally got it working with the GoFranco converter and another bi-directional DisplayPort to USB-C cable. The GoFranco is exactly what I was looking for as I was able to hook it up to my studio monitors via SPDIF/Toslink. The HDMI to USB-C adapter mentioned on other posts did not work for me at all.