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I sail on a sailboat around the world and I have a Venus GX connected to an old iPhone velcro'ed on my Electric panel and always on. During night sails that white background on the Remote Console disturbs my night vision.
Is there a way for Victron to introduce a simple "Night mode" with a black background? Or, since this is an Open Source software, is there a kind programmer that could make this feature available in the next release?
As a workaround, look for a screen dimming app for your iPhone.
This is the HTML5 app:
https://www.victronenergy.com/media/pg/Venus_GX/en/marine-mfd-integration-by-app.html
It works ok on a computer too. Just type http://venus.local/app/ You may need to zoom it to fit your screen, and refresh it if you get an error message while doing that.
The screen that's blinding you is available also via a button on it.
I use this myself for the same reason. Easy on the eyes..
Thank you everyone.
This very same request was made a year ago by another sailor. I hope that it can be introduced in the feature request soon. It's been years now, I just updated to version 3.10 but still nothing.
GuiMods now has a dark mode thanks to mr-manuel:
https://github.com/kwindrem/GuiMods
I use the Funktion „smart invert“ on the IPhone it is simple to change and you get a black background.
Accessibility-Display and Text sice-smart invert.
