CHANGE FONT COLOR / SIZE in ASIAIR software interface. (Feature Request)

biptunia

(I posted this a couple days ago through the feature request interface, but it hasn't shown up.)

Specifically, my tired old eyes would love to change the tiny green status text in the bottom right corner to white or yellow text a couple points larger. A lot of people doing astrophotography are older / retired, and would probably appreciate this option.

I'm talking about the thing that says "shooting", "dithering", "Settling", etc.

It's Green, and on the background of a dark space image, even adjusted with histogram, it's hard to read. Especially when using a filter which makes the whole view look a bit green too.

I asked elsewhere and someone said "wear your glasses" and "change the view size on your device" but I don't want to make the whole thing bigger, just the font.

And wearing glasses would have me needing to take them on and off all night to see scope / sky / then the tablet. And I don't want to change the view of everything on my tablet, just that tiny text.

Thank you.

w7ay

biptunia I asked elsewhere and someone said "wear your glasses" and "change the view size on your device" but I don't want to make the whole thing bigger, just the font.

Is it an Apple tablet or phone?

If so, go to Accessibility settings (in the Settings window).

In Accessibility, you should find a Display & Text Size item in the Vision group. Tap on that.

You can make text appear larger, withough changing the view itself (although bolding the text it may be sufficient). If the problem is caused by the background making the text look less distinct, you can also try Reduce Transparency.

It's Green, and on the background of a dark space image, even adjusted with histogram, it's hard to read. Especially when using a filter which makes the whole view look a bit green too.

Try "Smart Invert" too, it should turn green text into magenta text.

If ZWO's code is iOS compliant, those settings might be enough for you.

Chen

biptunia

w7ay
Thank you for the suggestions.

It's an Android tablet.

Would love to not have to invert or change everything, just font. It would be trivial to add this feature.

Also, font on Plate Solve is very tiny and green, when using a duo filter, it almost vanishes into the view. Would love to be able to just change font on ASIAIR without changing system fonts on every app. Would make fonts too big and wrong color on other applications.

Would be nice to even be able to have a few different options, change plate solve and notification font size and color while leaving other font sizes the same. Raising the font of everything even in ASIAIR software will be unwieldy. Would be nice to just be able to raise the font size and change font color of only the tinyest fonts in ASIAIR display.

Inverting everything would just look wrong, especially while looking at incoming space photos. Would make them bright too, which would temporary wreck night vision adjustment every time you looked at it. Then you'd have to turn down brightness and readability would be worse than before making adjustments.

Thank you.

biptunia

Has anyone at Zwo seen this request? It would be easy to add.

The answer is not, as someone hepfully offered, to change things globally on the tablet. That would mess up other things in other programs.

I can't even read the "time to Meridian Flip."

Please just make it possible for us to change the font and font color on notifications (Meridian, plate solve listings).

Also plate solve listings don't even get bigger when you pinch the picture bigger. It would be good if they did get bigger when you pinch. Or just allow us to pinch any text in the system. A lot of people with money for astro gear are older and have poor eyes.

Tech@ZWO

biptunia Noted, what is the model of your tablet?

biptunia

Tech@ZWO

One that's not made anymore but works great otherwise. Doesn't seem to have a model name, but it's this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088D8SJPF

Changing all settings is not the answer though. (saying that proactively because that's the usual answer at this point after asking my model of tablet. Happened on the Facebook group higher up in this thread. I was also told "wear your glasses" lol. see my answer above about all that if you care. Really just want the option to make text any size a few places on ASIAIR, and since a lot of users are older and it would be easy to do, I don't see any reason not to.)

Thank you.

Tech@ZWO

biptunia Thank you for your link and support, we will continue to optimize the display on the tablet.