Blanking display.

[pounce]

How hard is it to add UI buttons to the existing screens that add functionality?

I can see removing some items from now playing or shortening the volume slider and adding a button to simply toggle the screen off screen saver.

[soundcheck]

John.

What you're saying is that the screen-off screensaver turns the backlight and screen physically off. I wasn't aware of that screen-off function.

If that is working as you say, I'd be more then happy about it.

When reading the first posts in this thread I was thinking there won't be an option for turning the screen off.

Not to forget though: screensavers are usually resource eating processes, causing quite some load on the system.

Cheers

[markn]

This raises an interesting question.

I have a touch in a bedroom. The first night it was like a floodnight. The second I disabled the screensaver when powered off to blessed relief. The third I found the minimum setting and turned it down very low. Looked good. Later I turned off the light it was fine for about a second and then adjusted way up. I disabled the screen saver again.

Just wonderring if anyone else had experienced this?

[Mr_Sukebe]

My Touch is again experiencing issues with refusing to go into standby.
A workaround for this would be a button on the remote which could cycle through the screen brightness, as per the SB3.

[Daverz]

Ah, the Screen Off screensaver is perfect, thanks. I'll just leave it on all the time as my eyesight is not good enough to read the display from my listening chair, anyway. I still think a button on the remote that would start the Screen Off screensaver immediately would still be a good addition for a later version of the remote.

[soundcheck]

I also think that a "real headless" workmode, which switches off all graphic related routines on the SW side and the hardware side would be nice.
Because even if the screen is turned off it doesn't necessarily mean
that the SW in the back stopped working.

This mode should be manageable via a parameter config on the server or from the remote control.

BTW:

What I realized is if I stop playback by deleting the entire playlist (iPeng) the "screensaver off" handling gets scrambled. The screen is no longer off. It goes into "black mode" with backlight on or no screensaver at all anymore. I guess this must be a bug.


Cheers

[JohnSwenson]

I also think that a "real headless" workmode, which switches off all graphic related routines on the SW side and the hardware side would be nice.
Because even if the screen is turned off it doesn't necessarily mean
that the SW in the back stopped working.

If you are showing a static screensaver (it doesn't really matter what it is as long as its not changing) the code is not sending anything to the frame buffer.

The processor IS continuously sending data to the LCD display even when the backlight is turned off. Completely disabling the video subsystem so it doesn't send anything to the LCD at all is a very different task. It certainly CAN be done, there are registers in the processor that do this, but I don't think there is currently any way for the code running in squeezeplay to do that. It might take a new device driver to implement that.

John S.

[Pascal Hibon]

I'm just in a couple of days use of my new Touch and I'm kinda missing a great feature the SB3 had. Actually this great feature was provided by a plugin called Auto Dim Display. This plugin obviously doesn't work for the Touch and Radio due to their different OS.
I like to darken the display completely between a certain time period (night time). In the morning the display comes to live again. Is there any similar applet or patch for the Touch?

[erland]

I'm just in a couple of days use of my new Touch and I'm kinda missing a great feature the SB3 had. Actually this great feature was provided by a plugin called Auto Dim Display. This plugin obviously doesn't work for the Touch and Radio due to their different OS.
I like to darken the display completely between a certain time period (night time). In the morning the display comes to live again. Is there any similar applet or patch for the Touch?

Do you just want it to be black or do you want it to be darker ?

There is at least:
- Screen Switcher applet which allows to you configure different screen savers for different time of the day
- Custom Clock which allows you to design your own clock screen saver, for example one with a darker color of the text.

Both are commercial, so you will also need License Manager applet and a license for them, but you can apply for a free 30 day license through License Manager plugin in SBS to evaluate if it works as you like.

[Pascal Hibon]

Do you just want it to be black or do you want it to be darker ?

I want the behavior exactly the same as with my SB3: during the "dim period" the display should not emit any light. That probably means that the backlight should be switched off and the display itself must be black. Is this possible with the options you mentioned?