turn off the light on the receiver?

[4lex]

Is there a more elegant solution to ridding the receiver of the front light than electrical tape? Maybe a software hack?
Cheers,
Alex

[aubuti]

I'm not aware of a software hack, especially because the player firmware for the Receiver (and SBs more generally) is closed source. Some people have reported success at opening the Receiver (you need a Torx driver) and disconnecting/re-routing the light pipe that feeds the front button. But electrical tape is way less hassle :-)

[w3wilkes]

The front light also has many meanings during setup. If you ever change your network setup (routers, Squeezebox server machine or whatever), you will need the lights to know what's going on with the setup.

[Swiftie]

Is there a more elegant solution to ridding the receiver of the front light than electrical tape? Maybe a software hack?

Once the light is no longer visible, is there any benefit in being able to see the receiver at all?

Why not just hide it somewhere?

[aubuti]

Once the light is no longer visible, is there any benefit in being able to see the receiver at all?

Why not just hide it somewhere?

IMO, that is much better advice than my earlier reply about disabling/re-routing the light. Especially because the SBR is so easy to hide.

[paulster]

If you must do it and you're not running Windows (since it's pre-compiled into an EXE for Windows) then:

Locate the Receiver.pm in the squeezecenter directory and edit the following lines to suit your wished LED intensisty....

my $WHITE_COLOR = 0x00f0f0f0;
my $DARK_WHITE_COLOR = 0x00101010;

The format is 0x00RRGGBB where RR - GG - BB is the RGB intensity in HEX(00 to FF) so f0 equals decimal 240 and if you want to make the britghtnes half that it should be decimal 120 which is 78 in Hex. so the new string should be :
my $WHITE_COLOR = 0x00787878;

[4lex]

Thanks Paul. I am running windows currently, but planning to go to linux when the RPi finally arrives, so I'll bank this one for then.

Cheers,
Alex