Settings

Tap the gear icon in the navigation bar to open Settings. It’s a single list of pages in three groups, and every page is one tap away.

The three groups

Screen is about the touchscreen you’re holding: how it looks, how it reacts to your finger, and how it sounds.

Page	What’s in it
Display	Screen rotation, UI scale, brightness, screen dim, display sleep, screensaver, sleep while printing
Appearance	Dark mode, color themes and the theme editor, animations, widget labels, and how the printer is drawn (toolhead picture, G-code preview, Z labels, bed mesh view)
Touch & Input	Touch calibration, touch points, scroll and long-press feel, home screen editing, scroll buttons, and on Android the keyboard and navigation bar
Sound	Sounds on or off, volume, button sounds, sound theme, output device, sound preview. Only shown when HelixScreen finds a speaker or buzzer

Printer is about the printer the screen drives and the hardware around it.

Page	What’s in it
Printing	Machine limits, motion, retraction, enclosure, material temperatures, cold load and unload, cooling the nozzle after a filament change, timelapse, macro buttons
Devices	Hardware health, camera, filament system, fans, sensors, LED settings, power devices, Spoolman (with label printer and barcode scanner)
Safety & Alerts	E-Stop confirmation, cancel escalation, macro confirmation, spaghetti detection, print completion alert, on-screen alerts
Connection	Wi-Fi and Ethernet, your printers, the Moonraker address

HelixScreen is about the app itself.

Page	What’s in it
Language & Time	Language, timezone, 12 or 24-hour clock
System	Screen lock PIN, performance, usage data, log level, restart, factory reset
Updates	Update channel, checking for and installing updates. Shows a note instead when your firmware handles updates
Help & About	Welcome tour, debug bundles, Discord, documentation, and About (versions, system details, print hours)

Status lines

Some rows show a short line under their name, so you can check things without opening the page. The lines refresh every time you come back to the Settings screen.

Row	What the line shows	Examples
Display	Brightness and when the screen sleeps	80% · sleep 10 min, 80% · never sleeps, Sleep 10 min (screens without brightness control)
Appearance	Light or dark, and your theme	Dark Mode · Nord
Sound	Your volume	Volume 60%, Muted
Devices	A hardware health check	All healthy, Needs attention, Problem found
Connection	How the screen is connected	Wi-Fi HomeNet, Ethernet, Not connected
Language & Time	Your language and clock	English · 24-hour
Updates	Whether an update is waiting	Up to date, 1.1.1 available, Checking…, Check failed, Version 1.1.0, Managed by firmware

Touch & Input, Printing, Safety & Alerts, System and Help & About have no status line.

Where did it go?

If you’re coming from HelixScreen 1.0, Settings used to have six categories. Everything is still there and keeps its value; this is where each part moved.

In 1.0	Now
Display & Sound: brightness, dim, sleep, screensaver, rotation, UI scale	Display
Display & Sound: dark mode, theme colors, animations, widget labels, bed mesh render	Appearance
Display & Sound: sounds, volume, sound theme	Sound
Display & Sound: language, timezone, time format	Language & Time
Display & Sound: scroll buttons, system keyboard, keep navigation bar	Touch & Input
Printing: toolhead style, G-code preview, Z movement	Appearance > Printer Visuals
Hardware & Devices	Devices
Hardware & Devices > Printers	Connection > Printers
Safety & Notifications	Safety & Alerts
Safety & Notifications: allow cold load/unload, cool nozzle after filament ops	Printing
System > Network Settings, System > Host	Connection
System > Touch & Input	Touch & Input, now straight from the Settings screen
Help & About > About: update channel, check for updates	Updates

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