Andy, you seemed to suggest that it would be possible to have a separate
brightness setting just for the downtime messages, when you said earlier
that “You can change the brightness of the downtime message” – I take it
that this will not actually be a separate functionality.  

Anyway, it seems that various displays, while logged onto
SqueezeNetwork, each have their own brightness level (which is itself
kind of peculiar).  For example, if I set the brightness while a song
title is displayed, then another brightness level in the main menu,
these 2, different, brightness levels are retained for the respective
displays.  So, while connected to the SqueezeNetwork, what should be
displayed on the SqueezeBox screen while I set the brightness to 0, so
that it will not display a downtime message from SqueezeNetwork while
in standby?           But I also noticed that when the display is set
to 0 before going into standby, that it is reset to 1 when turned back
on.  So I’d have to remember to reset it to 0 before turning off, every
time.    Ironically, it might be easier (to avoid having system messages
displayed while in standby) if I just logged of SqueezeNetwork every
night by choosing the “Connect to SlimServer” from the main menu (at
which point it would be logged onto neither server).

And why is it that, as you said on 1/17, there will “always be a need
for that kind of downtime message”.   Does Slim Devices realize that a
SqueezeBox that is in standby is, from the standpoint of the user and
for all practical purposes, turned off, and that the user doesn’t need
to be made aware of the status of the SqueezeNetwork?   I think
that’s…intrusive.  If I walk by the “turned off” device during the day,
and it’s displaying a message, quite frankly that’s…spooky.  It’s
distracting!  What’s the point?  It is more than sufficient that I
become aware of server problems when I turn the device on.  I would
expect the logic to be: if the SqueezeBox is in standby, don’t display
any messages (brightness = 0).  Why is this concept so hard to grasp? 
How difficult would this be to implement?


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