eDLT - custom LCD colour selections

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    Iasonas7

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    Hi Folks,
    Hoping that this "feature request" may be seen by a C-Bus developer ;) It would be fantastic to be able to set a custom colour for the eDLT LCD background & foreground. It could simply be in the form of a HEX colour value set within the unit config. Given the LED modules in the displays are RGB this should be possible I suspect - just a software limitation.

    Reason for requesting is that many of the built-in colours don't really display well. For example, I am using a black background and green text colour - that seems to be the variant with the most contrast for my installation. The Blue is extremely hard to read, yellow & red look nasty and the cyan - it looks like the blue you get in the old Vacuum Fluorescent Displays :eek:.

    I'd really like to set a nice turquoise (maybe like #00FF94).
    I'm sure it would be a great selling feature to other customers too as it would allow them to match display colours to the buildings decor.

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    Unfortunately not possible. The hardware is only set up to support 3 bit per pixel colour.

    Personally I agree that most of the other colours are hideous and as the designer I cringe every time I see them in the wild, but apparently some people like them.

    Nick
     
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