The screen on the WiiM Ultra is completely underused and an afterthought

[adisano]

Honestly, the display on the WiiM Ultra is one of its biggest strengths to the mass market — so why is the brand treating it like an afterthought? By now there should be hundreds of playback screen presets, tons of cool standby screens, all sorts of visual themes. Instead, we’ve only got a handful of mediocre presets that look like they were added just to have something, like newest spectrum analyzer.

The ideal solution would be for WiiM to open the system to developers so the community could create its own presets. It’s a hugely wasted advantage right now, community would make it best in business.

 

[hgo58]

Honestly, the display on the WiiM Ultra is one of its biggest strengths to the mass market — so why is the brand treating it like an afterthought? By now there should be hundreds of playback screen presets, tons of cool standby screens, all sorts of visual themes. Instead, we’ve only got a handful of mediocre presets that look like they were added just to have something, like newest spectrum analyzer.

The ideal solution would be for WiiM to open the system to developers so the community could create its own presets. It’s a hugely wasted advantage right now, community would make it best in business.

As the WiiM has limited processor capacity and memory there is a limit to what can be included.

Allowing external developers to add to the firmware would be a high risk for WiiM, having to support that on a minimal system that also runs the core audio processing.

 

[adisano]

As the WiiM has limited processor capacity and memory there is a limit to what can be included.

Allowing external developers to add to the firmware would be a high risk for WiiM, having to support that on a minimal system that also runs the core audio processing.

I mean changing color to different ones? Changing fonts, reducing “bars” in Spectrum Analyser? That would be a risk and/or cpu over usage?

 

[QuarryHunslet]

You are asking this on the open forum, but if you want a reply from WiiM themselves, you should really ask WiiM via the Feedback section of the WiiM Home App.

 

[hgo58]

I mean changing color to different ones? Changing fonts, reducing “bars” in Spectrum Analyser? That would be a risk and/or cpu over usage?

That is not external development, just additional configuration. There is multiple possibilities of this kind of functional enhancements that could be done. WiiM needs to prioritize what is important and what is just nice to have.

You will see that the utilization of the Ultra screen is still evolving. This is the WiiM way.