Bugzilla – Bug 11851
Ambient Light Sensor
Last modified: 2010-04-08 17:24:44 UTC
Raphael is currently working on that.
Moving to the product SqueezePlay because this bug appears to apply to any player based on that application code. Feel free to move it back if it's specific to the original product.
Current state: (Seen by MeSue and myself) "Whenever I try it, it just goes slowly dimmer and dimmer until I go back and set it to manual after a few seconds. The one time I left it, it just went gradually dimmer and dimmer until it was dark--and that was it."
*** Bug 14765 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Also look into adding a minimum / maximum setting for automatic mode as suggested by some folks.
Reducing time estimate as with the minimum setting in automatic mode we should need much less time to tweak it.
Please also consider the additional dimming the Radio does in e.g. the "now playing" dialog after some seconds of inactivity. While the brightness of the automatic dimming is usually ok for the clock screensaver in standby (soft off) mode, the additional dimming in "on" mode after some inactivity makes the display completely unreadable. So when setting a minimum brightness, this should be really the absolute minimum for any mode. E.g. the brightness should be increased during activity, not further decreased during inactivity.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #7936 to the jive repo by felix == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=7936 == Bug: 11851 Description: Update from Raphael
My experience of auto-dimming:- From first install of Radio on 7.4 it worked well. Then it suddenly stopped working, and in auto-mode would remain very dim (independent of light source - sun, incandescent, fluoresecnt, bright torch). I tried a rest of factory settings (hold + whilst powering up) and the auto function has been fine since. I have no idea what caused the auto to stop working (had upgradeed to 7.4.1, switched to 7.5Beta and back, crashed now playing screen by importing MusicIP playlist with an umlaut, seen Radio drift from sync with otherplayers). If this symptom recurs with more explicit cause (or even repeatable), I'll re-comment.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #8144 to the jive repo by felix == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=8144 == Bug: 11851 Description: Ambient light sensor update - Switch to automatic if minimal brightness is changed - Show minimal brightness changes immediately (i.e. while dragging slider) - Change update timer from 500 to 100 ms to make brightness changes smoother - Make other parameters dependend from update timer
Update hours worked
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #8157 to the jive repo by felix == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=8157 == Bug: 11851 Description: Ambient light sensor update (Baby) - Add minimal brightness in automatic mode - Smoother dimming - Removed not used anymore fix for spurious readings - Clean up code to make more similar to Fab4s
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #8158 to the jive repo by felix == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=8158 == Bug: 11851 Description: Ambient light sensor update (Baby) - fix typo
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #8159 to the jive repo by felix == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=8159 == Bug: 11851 Description: Ambient light sensor update - Fix 'Screen off' screensaver when using automatic brightness - Clean up code to make more similar to Babys
Update hours worked.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #8163 to the jive repo by felix == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=8163 == Bug: 11851 Description: Ambient Light Sensor - Change sensibility -
This is done.
*** Bug 14342 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 14341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #8291 to the jive repo by felix == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=8291 == Bug: 11851 Description: Ambient light sensor update (Baby) - Fix minimal brightness (auto) - it did not go as low as when using manual brightness - Only reduce brightness in IDLE mode if brightness is above half of the maximum
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #8293 to the jive repo by felix == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=8293 == Bug: 11851 Description: Ambient light sensor update (Fab4) - Reduce brightness when IDLE instead of increasing it when ACTIVE (auto and manual) - Only reduce brightness in IDLE mode if brightness is above half of the maximum
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