And here I was, about to implement a new config.ini option so that I could have my illuminated buttons turn completely off when the unit is in standby in the home dock, and stay on at low illumination when the unit is in the car.

The existing option "buttonled_off=n" currently applies to both situations. So, I started coding (pretty simple to add), only to discover that there's already a very good way to do it, no new code needed.

Any takers.. (pretty simple, actually) ?

Is there an @home and @car option in there already? And you could put the off level in there? Or maybe you set the @work and @home options to off or something?

>Is there an @home and @car option in there already?

I can't believe I get to post this: Use the FAQ, Luke..

Yeah, I looked, you just use @AC and @DC to set the off-level.

So what about having it detect the state of the dimmer line, and then reading the display dimmer percentage from flash, and having the buttons dim at the same increment as the display when your headlights go on?

But of course:

;@AC buttonled_off=0

;@DC buttonled_off=1   ; or 2, or 3, .. or 7

Darn.. 'guess I don't get to implement it (again).

-ml

<nit pick>
Perhaps the buttenled_off setting should be renamed to buttonled_offlevel or buttonled_standby[level]. The _off suffix implies that it's a boolean to turn the button LEDs off.
</nit pick>

Just something I noticed when I saw _off taking a value of >1..

Too wordy for me.