Backlight vs LED Brightness

[cjbartkowiak]

Is there a difference between Backlight and LED Brightness, with respect to Insteon devices?

It seems setting the Backlight on/off sets the LED Brightness, but setting the LED Brightness does not change the Backlight.

Just trying to understand the intent of the 2 settings in eisy, and possibly which one to use.  Both seem to control the LED of the device just fine.

[paulbates]

Give this post a read:

 

[cjbartkowiak]

Thanks for the reply and that post pretty much nailed it.  Sorry, not sure how I missed that in my search?

So we know the 2 provide the same results to the device and the Backlight command is/may be a bit buggy.  But the Backlight command can be used as a quick way to set the LED Brightness.  By default the Backlight is 0/0 and so is the LED Brightness, yet the devices (as near as I can tell) are 15/1 (not sure but suspect).  Once the Backlight or LED Brightness is set, eisy remembers the setting in LED Brightness but not in Backlight.

Thanks again for the reply and find.

[paulbates]

It's true of most forums; do a Google search and add udi isy.

[Geddy]

@cjbartkowiak just to add to what @paulbates mentions...I like to suggest using Google Site Search (trick) to find things.

Type this into the search bar then add what you're looking for and it usually finds more results.

site: https://forum.universal-devices.com/ 

 The forum search function does an okay job most of the time finding stuff, but it does not find archived posts/topics and sometimes older locked posts (like the one linked to above from 2021). 

So if you run a Google search for:

site: https://forum.universal-devices.com/ backlight led

You'd find the 2021 post at the top of the results.