I don't think it's a good idea: IMHO Muggle mode should - by definition - be a "safe" mode under all circumstances, i.e. the light should neither get too bright nor too hot to injure or even scare a complete Muggle of a user.
Personally I would vote for something along the lines ToyKeeper suggested .. simplified click for on/off and hold for a (circular, ZebraLight-style L-M-H) 3-mode stepped ramp with 3-30-300ish lumens and no other features because that's about the maximum complexity I would trust a Muggle to handle.
Maybe it's a good thing tho.. ? Like in.. "trial by fire" ? Basically leaving the main branch mostly as is and if say.. "Anduril Alt" or another alternate fork isn't doing too well, just abandon ship.
So maybe something like: the last memorized level is the max, but no more than 800lm? Or other value, 600? So when giving it a child, set it to 100lm, because 300 could be sometimes too high, but when giving it a friend just set it to 600 and tell: It is bright. Be careful.
As long as you are setting brightness level before giving it, it is safe.
If my idea is in fact bad, please TK make it something more than just on off, 3 modes as mentioned are ok. But 100lm max is just…meh.
And after all very intensive thinking I decided it would be better to have 6H both for enter and exit from Muggle mode, as mentioned.
When I think about use of Muggle mode, it’s like: camping
“Hey, could you borrow me your flashlight for a while?” “* set to Muggle mode * Sure, take it - click to turn it on and click and hold to change the brightness”
Having said that, Muggle mode would be better IMHO if it used single clicks to cycle through a few brightness levels, just like most ordinary lights work. Click for on, click for low, click for medium, click for high, click for off. No push and hold to do anything. If it worked like that you could put it in Muggle mode and hand it to anyone and they would understand it without any instruction.
The reason why it uses a simplified smooth ramp is because a vote was held to determine muggle mode’s UI style. Here are the results:
1
2
3
4
5
Smooth ramp
-
70
76
78
85
3-mode Baton
40
-
68
62
61
1-mode
36
35
-
63
51
None
37
43
41
-
56
3-mode clicky
25
37
47
51
-
So basically smooth ramp was the most popular, then stepped ramp, then on/off at a single level. Then the option of removing muggle mode entirely. Coming up last was the style where people click to change the level, including “off” as one of the levels in rotation.
My personal preference is:
None
1-mode
Smooth ramp
Stepped ramp (3-mode Baton)
3-mode clicky
But that’s mostly because I’d rather use that space for other things.
Quick idea.. Not sure if it's the right place, but here goes..
So one of the latest additions/changes in Anduril were the 5C & 5H to choose between Manual/Auto On Memory and also, the 2C from Off changed from a Turbo shortcut to a Ceil shortcut
That just made me think.. why not combining these into something as follows:
- 1C - Revert to Auto Memory (basically whatever brightness state you've left your light Off, it should be memorized for the next Poer On by 1C - pretty much the old behavior)
- Remove either 5C or 5H and leave only one of them as the Manual / Default On Memory - Say.. Ramp to whatever you want > and 5C would memorize that level..
- Remap 2C from Off (Ceil Shortcut) to the memorized Manual / Default On Memory - also this way you are avoiding a duplicate 1C/2C (Turbo wasn't a Manual memorized level anyways)
So.. 1C - Standard Auto Memory / 2C - Manual / Default Memory - This way, you still have the Manual On Memory and a configurable pre-set level of brightness (Up to Ceil if needed)
The way Turbo was reached in the latest revisions was still 2C > 2C anyways, regardless if 2C was straight to Ceil or if by the above, it would be configurable to something else.
That didn’t change. It has had the same behavior since literally day 1.
It’s very unlikely to change, because it would eliminate one or more of the core UI requirements the design was built around. The idea was to provide, at minimum, the following:
From off:
A shortcut to the lowest level.
A shortcut to the highest level.
A shortcut to the memorized level.
While on:
1 click to turn off.
An easy way to go up in brightness.
An easy way to go down in brightness.
A shortcut to/from turbo.
Those things aren’t going to change. The user can configure the meaning of “lowest”, “highest”, and “memorized”, though.
So, I don't really follow.. about the 2C from Off shortcut - that didn't changed since Day 1 as in it was always a shortcut to Ceil or always a shortcut to Turbo ?
In the anduril.txt I can see it was always a shortcut to Turbo.. ?
I just got my Sofirm SP 36 BLF and was going through Anduril menu. I need a little help.I am trying to find steps to dim the locator light on the switch. Is it possible to do this? Just trying to save battery drain. Thanks
My wife is a bit of a horror freak, Walking Dead is her fav series, curiously she also binge watches the Hallmark channel.
Anyway she has set up a graveyard scene on our front yard, 7 tombstones top off piles of leaves shaped as fresh dug graves, complete w/skeleton climbing out of one of them. She asked iffn I could light it for her. I showed her the lightning feature of Anduril……
Now I’m waiting till dark to go out in the chill air and play roadie lightshow guy with a ROT66, E07 and D4V2 positioned in various trees around her macabre creation.
I accidentally changed the smooth ramp config, now it goes up all the way to turbo. Please help me go back to default.
The procedure is to click 4 times while on the smooth ramp mode.
Then 1 click on First prompt(floor).
Now How many clicks on 2nd prompt(ceiling) to go back to its default from factory?
Depends on which model of light it is. Each model has different default ramp settings, because each model has different hardware and power levels.
If it’s a pretty recent item, the factory reset function should work. But that wasn’t available until a few months ago.
I don’t have a version for that light, so it’s not in the repository. I’d have to look it up to even find out what the EC01 is.
Mine doesn’t. It has an older version.
No clue if there are any newer ones with newer firmware though. Lumintop is kind of all over the place with the FW3A derivatives, and I haven’t been involved in any of them except the purple one. I asked recently why they’re still shipping with old firmware, and didn’t get a useful answer.
So… many probably need to be updated, and it’s kind of a pain to do. I haven’t even updated mine yet.
