circadian VS displayplacer

I wrote something remarkably similar a few years ago, for similar reasons. I was pretty baffled that nothing similar already existed. Auto-wake with the RTC timer was what I really wanted.

Link, in case you care: https://github.com/mrmekon/circadian

I have a "NAS", which is really an enormous desktop tower crammed full of hard drives. It auto-wakes once per day, pulls backups from my various servers all over the place, then returns to sleep.

How about displayplacer?

It's not something that I've tried. There was a user report at the bottom of this GitHub issue that states sidecar rotation does not work.

https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer/issues/17

Alfred + "Display Placer" extension is the easiest/free way to go. You'll need to install the "Display Placer" open source app beforehand (here).

If you don't have Homebrew installed, you can install displayplacer from their releases tab:https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer/releases

Sure, here you have it https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer

Install DisplayPlacer. I use it along with Alfred (but you can trigger it many different ways). It's great for multi-monitor setups.

You can't do it with AppleScript, but there are other scripting options. A handy utility already exists though called DisplayPlacer. If you install that homebrew package, you can then create a shortcut to call SSH scripts. You'd even be able to save different display arrangements in the shortcut and call a specific one depending on where you place your iPad that day.

I’ve gave up solving the issue, but I do get around the issue by making use of https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer and assigning it to a hot key via Automator.