Boring stuff - screen timeout, reboot, brighness, etc

I am sure this stuff will happen eventually, but I think a few more items in the System and Prefs settings menus might be helpful:

System > Reboot would be useful when doing firmware updates, to avoid having to reboot the whole case.

Prefs > Screen Timeout would be nice for those extended patching sessions. Personally I’d want to blank the screen, but a screensaver would probably work too.

Prefs > Screen Brightness would be useful as well.

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Would definitely love a screensaver.

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im no screenophobe, but during live performances, would love to be able to really dim the screen, if not have the ability for it to time out/go black after X seconds (with wake up happening after moving or pressing either top right system knob/button). especially when playing in dark spaces, a bright screen imo would not feel great

Screen saver in on the Issues list!

I don’t know if brightness is easily do-able, the hardware doesn’t support changing the backlight. Maybe it can be done with a transparency layer (all colors go to black?)

Reboot can be done, yeah that makes sense to have.

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Ok we added the screensaver, it’s in v1.4.1 which we are just testing now before announcing the release:

https://github.com/4ms/metamodule/releases/download/firmware-v1.4.1/metamodule-firmware-v1.4.1-firmware-assets.zip

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excellent dan ty! it works well; really appreciating the ‘wake with knobs’ option. its nice turn that off to keep the screen dark while playing w the patch but the be able to wake screen after pressing the back button

also fwiw if anybody is looking to just dim the screen, ive had good success with these non permanent (doesn’t have any sticky residue) led dimming stickers on the mm screens (also works as an extra layer of scratch protection for the screens)

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+1 for reboot. In 20 characters

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