Well, I spoke to soon. I should have tried what kdf suggested before thanking him. As it turns out, the brightness level for standby on my SB was already set for 0. Otherwise, the time/date would be showing, and it wasnt. Im surprised nobody had said if the time/date isnt displayed when in standby, the brighness for standby is 0. That would be a simple way to check. So let me surmise from everything Ive read, to use Andys fix: that in fact I need to do nothing, since my standby brightness is already set for 0. And that even though a week ago a downtime message was displayed, despite this brightness=0 setting, in the future, starting now, my setting will not be overridden by that transmitted by the SqueezeNetwork server when it transmits a downtime message.
Unfortunately, this fix is not readily observed, in fact cant be observed, unless I can somehow anticipate a downtime message and set the brightness at that time, and even Andy stated in a previous post that I also changed the default to 2, so if for some reason it can't get your previous brightness setting, it won't be so bright. Uh? Cant it be tested thoroughly and debugged? Haste makes waste. Snarly, you ask: Do you believe that "Off" on your TV really means Off? It doesn't. Same with your DVD player and anything that allows you to turn it back "on" with a remote. See, it has to still have power or it would be impossible to turn it back on......Snarly, you miss the point. By on I mean functioning in a way that the user expects when the on switch is in the on position. The use of remote controls doesnt change this meaning of on. In particular, the cable company doesnt wake up your turned off TV when service is interrupted. Do you think there is 1 person on the planet who wants it to? Why does Comcast not send us messages when our TVs are off? Because off means off (regardless of various currents running through certain circuits. Even when people are dead they still have currents running through certain circuits-they're still dead). People dont want their TVs turning on in the middle of the night to be told Sorry, were down. So why does SlimDesigns do this with the SB? You have to admit its a strange ethic. Maybe its obvious that a TV turning on in the middle of the night would wake up people, and just not as obvious in the case of the SB. But, clearly, it happens, and such a thing, as Ive already said, should be impossible. This is a very simple concept, I dont know why anybody would argue with it. Even with the fix Andy has created, he admitted it might not work sometimes, so his fix gives me cold comfort. Andy has basically said, heres something that might work. Thats worth a D, because I cant use it, and will probably end up just disconnecting from the SqueezeNetwork (left arrow, up arrow, right arrow the same sequence gets you back on), which is an easy, unambiguous, and fail safe solution. I've gotten workable solutions from help desks in 10-30 minutes, this so-so solution took hundreds of minutes over 7 days - that's off the charts bad. So he changes a line of code in a program that is itself a bad idea (to transmit downtime messages). Woo Woo! Azinck3, Im still confused about the idle vs standby modes. Can you define these for me? How do you set the idle brightness, and should that be bright or dim? -- NauticusLX ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NauticusLX's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8981 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31652 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
