Some wishes:

I'd really love to find a way to use my empeg as an alarm clock... I'd also love to find a way to temporarily turn off the little glowing LED that stays on when the unit is off...

- Jon

I think tony has posted somewhere here something about how to turn off the glowing LED. But I'm not really sure about that... try a search - or maybe tony could tell you...

TeeMcBee
Got my Mk2! # 080000143

Uh, no... I've got no idea. I think Hugo said that one day he might make that configurable. But as far as I know, there's no way to shut off the standby LED.

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Tony Fabris

There's definetly a way to turn off the LED, but getting it back on again will be the hard part.

I like the idea of an empeg alarm clock. Doesn't seem like it would be too hard to impliment either with real-time clock.

Alex Lear

Hmm... I just made a search - but really didn't find any information about switching off the pulsing LED... I must have been in a fiber-dream...

But you could make it by covering it with a small tape-piece or something like that - quite unprofessional.

TeeMcBee
Got my Mk2! # 080000143

There's definetly a way to turn off the LED, but getting it back on again will be the hard part.

Isn't that a rough way

TeeMcBee
Got my Mk2! # 080000143

The standby LED is under software control; I just have to get around to modifying the display driver to actually offer a permanent on/off/pulse selection which can then appear in the empeg options window in emplode.

Hugo

Question:

Why not put that option in the settings menu on the Empeg itself instead of in the Emplode software. I realize that you don't want to clutter up the menus with to much junk (beautiful job at doing this already by the way), but is there a specific reason to NOT put it on the Empegs menus?

I was wondering about that when i noticed that you could turn the visual name display off only in Emplode and on the player itself when i was demoing it to a friend without a computer near by to turn it off. (damn, that's one hell of a run on...breath.... okay).

Just curious =]

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correction... i was thinking about the hard-drive read display, not the info line text.

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Yeah, add me to another vote to have these options switchable from the empeg player as well... It's nice to be able to do it from emplode, but not as functional...

- Jon

When I last used Rex's neat little util that writes to the display (that is, yesterday) is was also turning the LED off. Now, the (kludgy) way to do it is to load dev immage, enable Quit menu option, modify /etc/profile so that it clears that screen using Rex's picker (with blank options) and exits when picker returns, thus restarting the player. (Picker is an applet that displays four options on the screen and returns the button pressed.) Using it for user interaction and Perl for other stuff, it is very easy to write alarm clock (good idea, I will give it a try; the only problem is that I have locked myself out of shell prompt right now by a bug in bash profile which now exits immediatelly, and I have working upgrade tool needed for fresh start only at work. Sigh!)

Cheers!

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green

Problem is, if the light is off and there's nothing on the display - the display is actually on (filament heater is running, 60v PSU is running). Ok, so no big deal, but it does increase the power consumption/heat, which is not terribly environmentally friendly if you're leaving it like this overnight on a regular basis.

We're not talking *majorly* (ie, it's probably under 2W) but it's the principle :)

I'll try to get round to the standby LED state stuff next week.

Hugo

Problem is, if the light is off and there's nothing on the display - the display is actually on (filament heater is running, 60v PSU is running).

Err, umm, yes, it didn't occur to me...

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green