Lumie250 Display Brightness

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Worbloke
joined 6 Jan 2012
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Posted by Worbloke, 00:07 7 January 2012

Just received the Lumiie 250 on friday, so its first test is at the weekend.
No work tomorrow so I do not want a sunrise (light) or audible alarm set. I find myself not able to plug it and use it sadly due to the fact its display is backlit so bright it is like someone shining a blue torch in my face when I want to fall asleep.
I cannot find a way to dim its display. I set the display to AUTO but this only dims the display if you switch on the sunrise. (for the record its also so dim then its very hard to see the time during the night. I dont want to switch off the display completely through the night. I dont want to use the Sunset as I have no trouble falling asleep.

On a workday, I plan on a 30 min sunrise with audible alarm and my tests show this will be ok. The alarm and sunrise with the radio, volume and station is all set up just how I want it.

All I want now at the weekend is to switch off any alarms.
--That is switch off the audible Alarm and light tomorrow morning. I want to be able to still see the time but not so bight I can see it when I close my eyes.

Please tell me I can adjust the display brightness easily on this £100 alarm clock without some complex method of even though I want to simply switch off the alarm, I instead need to still set the alarm in some special way just so that the display will dim to allow me to sleep.

Worbloke
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Posted by Worbloke, 16:20 7 January 2012

ok, day 2 and I think I have answered my own question. Pressing + & - at the same time activates the Sunset(which also dims the display)
Although the Sunset was not a feature I intended on using, it seems I have to as there is no independent way to control the display brightness. :(

I strongly feel display brighness should be a manual setting which is not tied to any other functionality.

the auto Dim is perhaps too dim and it is difficult to see. ( I have perfect vision by the way)

It is also frustrating that I see I would have to get used to remembering to switch on the alarm each and every night. No falling into bed knowing your alarm will ring in the morning. Forget this and you will sleep in!!

Perhaps my concerns will be irrelevant as already it appears to not be keeping accurate time.

I noticed after being switched on a few hours it was 2 minutes slow.

I re-set it to match the TVs teletext time and matched this to my old clock radio also. 10 minutes later its already 20 seconds fast.

Not sure why this is happening as I thought it picked time up from the FM radio's RDS signal.

If it cant keep time, then all the features it has which depend upon time become useless.

Will monitor this until Monday, and if it continues to lose/gain time then I am afraid this is a showstopper for me and I will have to return it :(

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Posted by admin, 13:09 10 January 2012

Yes you can adjust the level of the display, to either 'display auto' or 'display auto off' the latter means you will have no illumination from the display, once the light has dimmed to a certain level.
You have now found how to set this I see, if you do not want the sunrise the next morning, you do not have to endure the sunset (ie the light fading down)you can just dim the light down.
Setting the clock to a RDS station should keep the time accurate too.
Any problems please call the
Care line team and we can help you.

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