display brightness
The SLIMP3's VFD had four brightness steps, plus off.
The Rio Receiver has a backlight which is either on or off.
So I've used the Brightness setting to select a couple of
display variations:
- normal display
- line-swapped display, for double-height mode
(see text size note below)
- inverted (white text on black background)
- backlight off
- display off
These can be selected separately for
playing,
stopped and
off states
on the SqueezeCenter web interface
(
Player settings - Display - Brightness).
display text size
On the SqueezeCenter web interface, it is possible to change
the display's text size
(Player settings - Display - Text size).
It's normally
small, which uses the native character
set of the VFD.
Choosing
large causes SqueezeCenter to try rendering a rather
scrappy double-size text made up of bits of line-drawing
characters.
Because SLIMP3's two-line display is twice as wide and half
as tall as the Rio Receiver's, slimrio has to split each line in two;
this renders double-height text completely illegible.
The second Brightness setting (see above) changes the
order of lines on the display so the double-height
mode comes out unscrambled (though I'd still hesitate to
call it "legible"!).