Just rebooted -- I'm set to always get the beta control panel, though I don't see an obvious way of verifying the control panel version.

No apparent change in the brightness problem.  I still cannot get back to "normal" brightness after night mode without touching the day brightness slider.

Can you expound on this?  This was not the behavior I saw prior to the most recent update.  Thanks.

I'm having some issues here.

If I reboot the Chumby One, it always boots back into night mode with the screen off.

If I touch the screen to turn the brightness off in night mode, I now have to tap it twice.

To get it back to full daylight mode I have to tap the screen a few times - and the top button seems non responsive..

After the update to 2.8.74 on chumby one the display is flickering. I'll reboot the chumby tomorrow when I've time to check it again.

I wonder if you could have an alternate set of "night mode" alarm events that behaved the "wrong way".. Call it night mode alternate or something like that... or Night mode (remain dim), and Night mode (brighten on awaken)

From night mode, on my chumby one, i also need to tap DARK twice to get it to switch the screen off..

The issue I'm seeing with Dark mode appears to be different, but may be related. I have a "Dark" event set for 11pm. If the Chumby is in dark mode (dim, with clock displayed) when the event occurs, it switches to "Normal" mode. If it's in Normal mode, it switches to dark.

This may have been reported in another thread, apologies if it's a dupe. I would've expected to see it in this thread, too.

I am a new Chumby herder (I got two, thought only one is currently configured) and it worked for the first two days.  This morning I added a bunch of apps to my Default channel and when I went to look at the Chumby, it had a blank screen.  It reboots, and after saying "loading control panel" it goes blank again.

I have submitted a support request email, but this blank-screen behavior seems similar to what was reported early in this thread.  Additional notes: I was trying the Beta control panel; it worked last night.  Reverting and rebooting doesn't seem to help, however.

I have tried to reduce my Default channel's app count, and I also tried a different channel with just 4 simple apps.  Still getting the blank screen after boot.

Yeah, this looks like the screen has been set to "off", probably by an alarm, or by setting the device to "dim", with the brightness all the way off.  Go into special options, reset to factory, then look at your alarms.

The screen setting is designed to survive reboots and is enforce by the Control Panel once it's booted.

Yes the other option is to create a USB dongle with the following file:

#!/bin/sh
rm /psp/dimlevel

..with UNIX-style line endings, and booting with it.

The problem here is that there's no good answer about what to do - either you want your brightness and dimness settings saved across boots, in whcih case you run the rick of setting it too low, or you *don't* save across reboots and the user has to set it every time.  The device has no way to know whether you can see anything on the display - there's variation among the devices so that the same brightness value on two devices would be different.

One alternative is to force the user through a calibration exercise on initial startup - however, the device would still be subject to the quality of the calibration.

Sorry - the name of the file should be "debugchumby".

As to the top button - what about hitting the top button at night?  Should it go full bright and blind you?  Again, keep in mind I don't know what level of brightness is dim but still visible - we rely on the customer setting a reasonable level.

Yay!  That seems to have cleared up that little issue.  I took a leap and just pulled the flash drive out after things were working.  We'll see how that does across the next reboot.

Unfortunately, while simple for a techie , this doesn't pass the Aunt Mildred test.