tesseraEvery screen has settings of its own: how bright it is, when it dims, what happens at night, how people get from page to page. This page says where to find them. The pages after it explain each one.
Three places, one value
- In Tessera: open the screen and click its Screen settings tab. A change applies at once; there is nothing to save.
- On the screen: swipe down from the top edge, or hold the top bar. On the screen shows how the page works.
- In Home Assistant: every setting is an entity of the screen's device, under Configuration. An automation can turn Night mode on at bedtime, or Auto standby off while someone is home.
The screen keeps the values itself, so they survive a restart of the app, of Home Assistant and a firmware update. A change in one place shows in the other two within a second.
All settings at a glance
| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Brightness | The backlight while the screen is in use | 100 % |
| Dark mode | Black page, dark cards | Off |
| Auto standby | Dim after a while without a touch | On |
| Standby after | How long that while is | 10 minutes |
| Standby brightness | The backlight in standby; 0 is off | 20 % |
| Night mode | A different standby brightness at night | On |
| Starts, Ends | The night hours | 22:00 to 07:00 |
| Night brightness | The backlight in standby at night | 10 % |
| Back to Home | Return to the Home page after a while without a touch | On, after 2 minutes |
| Also on standby | Return to the Home page when the screen dims | Off |
| Swipe between pages | Turn pages with a swipe | Off |
| Page buttons | The bar with chevrons and dots under the tiles | On |
| Show home button | The logo at the left of the top bar | On |
| Rotation | Turn the picture | 0° |
Settings that are not here
- The clock format, the number format and the language of the screens are set for every screen at once, under Settings → Language & region in Tessera. See Clock, language and formats.
- The screensaver has its own card on the Screen settings tab; see Screensaver.
- The number of columns and rows belongs to the layout, under Grid beside the pages. See Change the grid.
- Extras appears for boards with additional supported hardware, such as Volume, Microphone or Wake when moved. Plugin settings are in the screen's Plugins tab. See Plugins, Assist and screen hardware.
- What the top bar shows is part of the layout; see The top bar.
Screens that miss a setting
The Waveshare 4.3-inch, 5-inch and LCD-7 screens have a backlight that cannot dim, and waking them from dark makes them restart, so they have no standby or night settings at all. A screen whose backlight is only on or off shows Screen on in standby and Screen on at night instead of a brightness. A row a screen lacks is simply not shown.