Bugzilla – Bug 10527
SqueezeBox should not change display brightness level for "Can't Connect" message.
Last modified: 2009-01-03 13:19:57 UTC
With more and more folks using some sort of power scheme on their servers to go into suspend or hibernation on idle, the resulting bright "Can't connect to SqueezeCenter" message is probably causing momentary panic in millions upon millions of SqueezeBox owners who suddenly see this message flashed in their bedrooms late at night, probably causing high blood pressure and, in some cases, perhaps premature death. See this thread for one user's account of their near death experience: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31652 See this thread for a slightly less inflammatory discussion: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57552, and especially peterw's sensible idea that the SqueezeBox ought to display its "Can't connect to SqueezeCenter" message in the brightness that was in use just before the connection was lost...the idea being that power control schemes could set the brightness of the player to off before shutting down the server so as to prevent this false alarm.
I totally agree - displaying the message at full brightness is really bad for people that use SqueezeBoxes in the bedroom. Displaying the message at the same brightness that the display was previously using would be a reasonable solution.
see incarnations driven by the same initial thread in bug 4670, bug 4673 and bug 4673.
basically, this is a dupe of 10393, marking as such since there is more activity and a target there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10393 ***