After some changes to my arcade machine, Pixelcade entirely shuts off when Launchbox is off and the server is still running. If I quit the server with the included app or ctrl+c, the marquee reverts to the original behavior of scrolling through all of the loaded marquees, but if I only quit Launchbox, the marquee remains blank until I manually quit Pixelcade and start it again. (Edit: I've now solved these problems - I had accidentally synced my Launchbox settings from one PC to another, wiping out my LEDBlinky settings. Feel free to ignore this part and only worry about the bit about sleep "breaking" Pixelcade).
I've also noticed that when I put the PC to sleep and wake it again, sometimes Pixelcade fails to start again and I'll be given a blank marquee until I quit and restart the computer. When I wake the PC, I'll briefly hear the windows disconnect/connect noise and Pixelcade will no longer work until I reboot the PC. In Device Manager, a small yellow exclamation mark is accompanied by an unknown device (Device Descriptor Request failed) and the COM entry for Pixelcade is gone. I've already turned off USB Selective Suspend, so I'm not sure what else I can do.
Changes I've made that could potentially be the root cause of the issue - replaced the motherboard, cpu, and ram, formatted my Windows drive and installed Windows 11. To remedy the situation, I've tried refreshing the Pixelcade firmware (on the SDcard), and entirely uninstalling and reinstalling Pixelcade from scratch - neither have entirely solved my issues.
Any suggestions?
Leaving this up for posterity, but I've figured out both of my problems.
Turns out, the Pixelcade didn't like being switched to the front panel USB slot when I installed the new motherboard. It's now happily in one of the mobo ports and doing well through at least a few sleep cycles. Solved!
ah great, good to know!