aubuti;427743 Wrote: > > radish is probably right that an "all pixels on" plugin would probably > be ridiculously easy to write. Until that appears to restore stale > pixels a good preventative is the FuzzyTime plugin, which allows the > date/time screensaver to drift back and forth across the VFD screen. > Unfortunately, I don't think it works with the more elaborate > screensavers like WeatherTime.
That's right. I've hacked an older version of SuperDateTime to move its info & icons every time it gets a forecast update (using a FuzzyTime API), but the end product is not nice enough for me to feel good sending a patch to Greg (SuperDateTime already displays "fuzzy" time per a FuzzyTime API, it just doesn't move the info around). I'm not aware of anyone else using the FuzzyTime API to move displayed items around on the screen. Another caveat about FuzzyTime is that, contrary to what I wrote in its web page, it's not exactly a drop-in replacement for Date and Time for everyone, as I don't think it displays alarm bell overlays. Hmm, the web page doesn't even mention the feature I added to move the displayed info slowly from side to side. :-( Another plugin to prevent overuse problems is Auto Dim Display, which lets you configure your Squeezebox displays to go dark between certain hours (when you're sleeping) if they're turned off at the time. A version that works with the latest versions of SqueezeCenter is available from my site, see the URL below. All my players are SB2/SB3/Boom units, and the only one that I've noticed anything odd with is the SB3 that doesn't use Auto Display. Its left-most pixels seem a little dim. One of other players was put in use about the same time, but that's too small a sample for me to conclude that Auto Display has prevented that problem in my other gear. The difference in brightness is very slight, but I'd love it if a "refresh" plugin could improve the brightness. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63882 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
