Orange Dot on all external displays in macOS Monterey
We use a 27" iMac to control multiple external displays, TVs and a very large LED wall screen. I recently upgraded the iMac from Big Sur to Monterey which was a little more complicated than expected. I had to update drivers in the Blackmagic Design Decklink cards and update the PVP3 software from Renewed Vision.
Then the Orange Dots appeared in the upper right hand corner of every external display - totally unacceptable! I literally spent a week of my life debugging this. Reinstalling software and drivers, rebuilding show files, creating new users, back and forth. Eventually I discovered that when I enabled the Dante Virtual Soundcard audio input (used to bring in SMPTE timecode) it would turn on the Orange Dots. And once they turned on, they were sticky and would not go away by turning off the DVS audio input.
Ultimately the solution was to wipe the iMac's disk and back down to Big Sur. I am now stuck at Big Sur and will not move forward until the Orange Dot problem is resolved. I don't care if there is an Orange Dot on the iMac's internal display, but there must be a way to remove them from all external displays!
We have four iMacs in the mix and I've backed down the others for consistency and interoperability. Now they are all running Big Sur. This is a super critical problem for us and if this problem is not resolved in the near future, we'll stop buying iMacs. There are other choices.
