There is no pleasing some people. On 1/18/07, NauticusLX < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 wasn't. I'm surprised nobody had said "if the time/date isn't displayed when in standby, the brighness for standby is 0". That would be a simple way to check. So let me surmise from everything I've read, to use Andy's 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 can't 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? Can't 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 doesn't change this meaning of "on". In particular, the cable company doesn't 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 TV's 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 don't want their TV's turning on in the middle of the night to be told "Sorry, we're down". So why does SlimDesigns do this with the SB? You have to admit it's a strange ethic. Maybe it's 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 I've already said, should be impossible. This is a very simple concept, I don't 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, here's something that might work. That's worth a D, because I can't 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, I'm 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 [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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