Automatic brightness control

[aubuti]

Not completely true, there is a slight dimming of the display which always happens a few seconds after you stop touching the screen, this will always happen, no matter what else is going on. My understanding was that this was added to increase the life of the screen. There is no way way to change this behavior from the menus. You CAN SSH into the Touch and change the code, but supposedly that could lead to decreased life of the screen.

In my experience that dimming is _very_ slight, such that it doesn't noticeably diminish the functionality of the Touch's image viewer.

[m4rk]

I've tried just about every software fix, patch, etc. available to solve the issue of the overly bright versus almost unlit (and therefore unusable) Touch screen and none of them work as well as the simple solution shown below. Please keep in mind that this Touch sits on a night table right next to my bed and the bright screen is very annoying in an otherwise darkened room.

The top photo shows my Touch in full brightness, daytime mode and the lower photo shows my Touch in low brightness, nighttime mode. Works great!

I have mine next to my bed too and have set the screen to off when off. The nice thing, which I am sure you know, is that if I touch the screen in the middle of the night, even thought its set to off, it will briefly light up dimly to show the time and then go off again after a few seconds.

I guess it would be perfect if the screen off mode could be set by a timer ie on auto brightness during day and off mode after 11pm or whatever you set. Is there an app that can do that?

[505]

As the author of the brightness patch, Madler asked on my weblog if it was possible to disable the brightness decrease when viewing photos. As noted here, that decrease is there to save the screen a bit. It only occurs when the brightness is set above 50%.

It's not that difficult to add to my patch. Al that is needed is an extra menu item, and an extra check on this line. The actual decrease is calculated two lines below, on 473.
This wouldn't be too difficult to make, and probably I have some time to build a new version somewhere next week. I'll release that on the beta channel. Although I'm not quite sure if it is actually useful, because the decrease is minimal.

For the timer functions mentioned by m4rk, that is more difficult, because it would require more code. Not sure yet if I'll do that, depends on my time, my interests, and if others are interested in such a feature.

[505]

A new version has been uploaded to the beta repository. This has the extra option to disable the gradually decrease in brightness to safe the screen. You can test this version by adding the beta repository (http://server.vijge.net/static/squeezebox/repo-beta.xml). You first need to uninstall the current version, then install the beta version.