Device Management

The device screen allows you to manage settings for the picoTracker device hardware itself.

Note: the picoTracker saves its device settings to the SDCard so if you replace the sdcard in your picoTracker, the device configuration will reset to factory defaults.

screen capture of device screen

MIDI

Line Out Mode (1st Edition RP2040 model only)

On the first edition picoTracker, the audio output can be set to one of 3 amplification levels to make the audio level output more useful for Line Level output or Headphone output. The 3 possible settings are:

NOTE: A reboot of the picoTracker is required to apply the newly changed audio output level!

*PLEASE exercise caution when using earphones or headphones!

Remote UI

This setting enables or disables sending commands to a computer attached via USB to the picoTracker running a "remote UI" application that can mirror the display from the picoTracker.

The official picoTracker remote UI web application is available , it works only with Chromium based browsers.

Font

The font used for the picoTracker user interface. Choice of "standard" or "bold" fonts.

Color Themes

The color scheme for the picoTracker can be customised and saved.

The following colors can be configured and are listed with their default setting as well as a note on the colors use in the picoTracker user interface:

Name Default Use
BACKROUND 0F0F0F Background color on all screens
FOREGROUND ADADAD text and cursor in cursor
HICOLOR1 846F94 row count in song screen
HICOLOR2 6B316B inverted highlight, eg. "Song" screen label
INFOCOLOR 33EE33 information displays eg. used for battery gauge ok level
WARNCOLOR 11EE22 warning displays eg. battery gauge low level
ERRORCOLOR FF1111 error displays eg. battery gauge critical level
CURSORCOLOR 224400 ??
CONSOLECOLOR 99FFAA ??

Updating Firmware

The picoTracker firmware can be easily updated by powering the picoTracker via a USB connected to a PC. Select Update firmware. This will reboot the device into BOOTSEL mode, and you'll see the picoTracker show up as a USB mass storage device on the connected computer. At that point, just copy the UF2 firmware file into the USB device as you would with a USB stick or USB drive.

Once copying (flashing) of the new firmware is completed, the picoTracker will automatically reboot and be running the newly installed firmware.