Welcome screen possible?

[trihy]

Hi guys. I was thinking if it will be possible to have a welcome screen.

Just like a regular screen on lcdsmartie but should be showed only at start and then skipped for the rest of the session.

[dperrow]

Hi,
I've had a think about this and I think I have a solution.

1. Make your welcome screen, screen 1 and make the screen time longer than you want the screen to appear.
2. extract the dll from the attached zip file and copy it to the plugins folder

Counter.zip

3. Put the following in the Actions section of the config.ini file

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Action01Variable=$dll(Counter,1,200,)
Action01Condition=0
Action01ConditionValue=0
Action01Action=DisableScreen(1)
Action02Variable=$dll(Counter,1,200,)
Action02Condition=0
Action02ConditionValue=0
Action02Action=NextScreen

4. adjust the 200 value to suit the length of time required for the welcome screen. The value is dependant on the refresh interval so you may have to experiment with the value. on my system 200 is about 8 seconds.

Hope this works. Let me know.

[Stutzman]

Are there any limitations of what you could show on the welcome screen if you set it up like that?

[dperrow]

Don't think so. Anything you can show on a Smartie screen can be shown.

I don't have that problem since my hardware is based on an Arduino with some custom code so I can put up whatever direct from the Arduino.

[grimsi]

Hope this is not too late but I do something similiar to you.
It's actually pretty easy and doesn't require any additional plugin.
LCDSmartie will automatically show the first screen on start-up, so you just have to set the first screen to display your welcome message, then disable it and set the "Time to show (in seconds)" to the value you want (I use 3 seconds).
Since the screen is not enabled it won't show up when scrolling through your screens but it will still be shown once in the beginning

[trihy]

Hi. Oh, I never see the replies.

Thanks guys and sorry for not reporting back. Both options worked great @dperrow @grimsi