Display settings & behavior for burn-in prevention

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The desired result should in theory be simple as has already been suggested. The clever Roon devs could make the song bar and backdrop alternate locations between songs or some fade/in out. Note: they’ve already done this for the backdrop.

I have a Chromecast 4K and managed to set it up in the Google Home app as an Audio Group. After 5 mins or so it switches to ambient mode (screensaver). The down side to this is that you can’t see the track name and album art as it’s Chromecast’s own screensaver. Not an ideal solution when I want the best of both worlds given our subscription does not come cheap. I would love for this to be resolved by the Roon devs but also appreciate there are higher priority projects on the go (Roon Arc development as an example)

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I know this is a very late reply… But I have just had the same thought as I used it for the first time on my Oled.

Winamp managed this 25 years ago. Some screen friendly graphics and movement would be helpful.

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I need this feature desperately too.

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Yep - this isn’t a novel concept. And OLED TVs look so damn good. A great pairing with some excellent audio software that has a name that rhymes with “balloon”. :smile:

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Can you please look into having no static images on the Roon display as it stands at the moment this feature is not suitable to use on an Oled screen. It must be possible to move the now playing bar etc around the screen at intervals to counteract the chance of burnin. This I feel would be a big improvement if implemented, what do other users here think?

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I’ve merged your post into the existing thread on this feature suggestion.

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I thought OLEDs prevented burn in by shifting the screen around a bit?

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It would be nice if the “roon” displayed when a screen display is not active to shuffle around the screen to prevent screen burn in.
I have just created a small display with a Pi 0 and a 3.2 inch screen, if I leave this on 24/7 I know that “roon” will be burned into the screen after a while.

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I’ve moved your post to the existing feature suggestion - don’t forget to vote for it by using the Vote button at the top of the thread.

BTW, burn-in is a thing on screens using OLED technology. Is that what your 3.2 inch screen is using?

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It’s an LCD screen with 3 programmable buttons to the side of the screen. I have written some python to use one of the buttons to turn the screen on and off so I have solved my own problem :grinning: