Option to display logos only on first startup

[jueank]

Hi ZeDMD Team,
First of all, thank you for the amazing work on this project!

I wanted to suggest a small improvement regarding the startup logos. Currently, during the firmware power-up, the ZeDMD logo is displayed for a few seconds, followed by the PPUC logo. This also occurs on every reset, which happens, for example, every time a virtual pinball table is finished.

The logos by themselves look great, but seeing them on every reset can become a bit distracting and repetitive for users, especially since the ZeDMD logo has a large rainbow border and the PPUC logo fills the frame with a bright yellow background.

Would it be possible to add an option to display the logos only on the first startup, and not on every reset? This way, the branding is still represented, but without it interrupting frequent gameplay sessions.

Thank you very much for considering this improvement, and thanks again for all your hard work on ZeDMD!

[mkalkbrenner]

If you use the latest versions of all libs and DMDext and configure your frontent correctly to not "kill" VPX (or on batocera enable dmdserver), ZeDMD should not reset but turn black.

[jueank]

Thank you for the reply!
I'm using v5.1.8 of ZeDMD firmware. I updated to libzedmd 0.9.7. Using most recent version of ext-dmd (v2.3.1).
Also, I'm using VPX 10.8.1 from the action builds.

The behavior that I'm observing is that the ESP S3 resets, when a table is launched (ZeDMD shows both logos in cases where the table startup takes long enough to cycle through both), as well as when a table is exited (ZeDMD resets again). So, there are 2 reset cycles per table 'use'

I'm not sure if the behavior is influenced by the intermediate state of the 10.8.1 development, but I cannot confirm that using the newest versions of the firmware/software like you say lets ZeDMD circumvents these reset cycles.

[mkalkbrenner]

Are the resets happening when you finish a table within VPX without terminating VPX itself?

[jueank]

Just tested it.
When starting a table with 'F5' from editor, ZeDMD performs a reset cycle. When exiting the table with 'Q' (going back to the editor), another reset is done.

[Quasi71]

Hi to all,

I can confirm the behaviour described by jueank, same here.
Reset cycles every time you start or quit a table. When quitting, the reset is accompanied by a 2-3 second stuttering sound loop from the remains of last table sound.

What to thank as well for your tireless work on that.