Splash Screen - longer time display?

[rhwestfall]

@Shearwater -

The splash screen on start up (Family has a Petrel1, Pedrix AI, and Peregrine) seem very short in displaying information (I use a owner's name and phone number). Can it be set to display longer (either by us, or in a future software update)? It doesn't seem to be displayed long enough to be useful....

 

[Couv]

Must be hell when you get old. :-D

 

[Aviyes]

Probably just need an option to pull it back up, instead of displayed longer.

 

[letterboy]

I'd say displaying it longer - or requiring a button press to get past it to make it useful.

Especially if the purpose is to make it easier to identify who the device belongs to.

The device can continue to start-up in the background while displaying the splash screen.

 

[rhwestfall]

The Peregrine in particular seems the shortest "splash" time...

 

[rhwestfall]

Over a year and a half later - @Shearwater - Again, the request to please have a longer duration splash screen on start-up!!!!!!!!

 

[Wayward Son]

I think it's about 2 seconds. Goes by quick

 

[rhwestfall]

useless for the purpose of identification.

As an example, we have names and phone numbers of ownership on them.....

a pause and button push or a longer duration would be beneficial.

 

[tmassey]

Counterpoint: I don't want a longer delay: that's annoying for the >99% of the time I do not need to see the screen. A button push isn't the end of the world... but annoying. I have to sit there pushing the button until it accepts it.

I do agree that a setting to show the screen would be useful.

I too use it for contact information: in my case for ICE, so I really *do* want that information to be seen. But not enough to sacrifice the user experience for the 99% of the time I'm using it.

Shearwater can't win for trying. It's kind of a variation of a classic XKCD comic. Whichever way they go, people won't like it.

ETA: If I needed to read someone else's: I would video the turn-on process and simply pause the video.

 

[Joneill]

ETA: If I needed to read someone else's: I would video the turn-on process and simply pause the video.

This - easy as that: problem solved with no startup delay to the actual user!