I'm a longtime Boom owner who just got a Touch. As I've done with my
Boom, I'd prefer to have the digital clock displayed on the Touch as a
screensaver when it's powered off, but I'm concerned whether that would
put the longevity of the Touch's screen at risk, especially as they're
no longer being
My Touch is a couple of years old now and I leave it on 24/7. The
display still works fine. When idle, my Touch shows the clock and
weather forecast from the SDT plugin.
On the positive side, the Touch has an environment light sensor that
adjusts the display brightness according to the available
Pascal Hibon wrote:
> The automatic brightness control is configurable in the Touch. You can
> adjust the minimum and maximum brightness settings.
I could be wrong, but as far as I remember you can only adjust the
minimum in the automatic mode. If I'm not wrong this was the reason that
I've swit
reinholdk wrote:
> I could be wrong, but as far as I remember you can only adjust the
> minimum in the automatic mode.
True. But there is a way around that.
First install the Patch Installer (through the applet installer). Next
install the Reduce Screensaver Brightness patch (though the patch
i
Pascal Hibon wrote:
> True. But there is a way around that.
> First install the Patch Installer (through the applet installer). Next
> install the 'Reduce Screensaver Brightness patch'
> (http://server.vijge.net/squeezebox/#reducebrightnessbeta) (through the
> patch installer). This patch allows
Thanks for the tips. As my Touch is fairly new, I haven't looked much
yet at patches, and wasn't aware of the Reduce Screensaver Brightness
patch. At the moment I think for my purposes it works to keep the Touch
set to manual brightness at a fairly low level, but not all the way
down, so it is for
