Create a custom splash screen

Are you bored of the standard power on screen?
Do you want your own image at power up to personalise your device?
You can!

Save a 240x304 24-bit BMP file named splash.bmp in the root of the SD card. Beginning in firmware version 1.7.4, the splash screen BMP files stored on the SD card can be viewed in the File Manager application and set to be the current splash screen with a single click.

You can share and get ready to use images in the #splash-screens channel over our Discord group.

Example

Some picture editor providing an exporter which can be configured. But to convert an existing picture, you could use ImageMagick, which is a powerful image manipulation tool. It is open source and available for all common operating systems.

To just scale the picture down, use:

$ convert source.jpg -resize 240x304 destination.bmp

If you see and don't want a frame left and right, you can adjust the convert with:

$ convert source.jpg -resize 240x304 -gravity center -extent 240x304 destination.bmp

To check if the splash got the required parameter, check:

$ identify destination.bmp     
destination.bmp BMP3 240x300 240x304+0+0 8-bit sRGB 216054B 0.000u 0:00.000

It says '8-bit', but is is for RGB -> 8+8+8 = 24-bit

Issues

• If the custom splash is not shown in Fileman, try the size 240x300 instead of 240x304.
• If you don't see a (custom) splash screen, make sure the feature is enabled in Options -> Interface -> Show Splash.