What you could do is add a screensaver value, e.g. turn off after x seconds/minutes, or 0 to not turn it off. If you press the boot button, screen turns on again for the same amount of time. That way it's a simpler configuration and we don't overload the button functionality.

I'm currently reworking button and screen behaviour to combine #510 into #434.

Thanks, that sounds great. I will use it as practice.

or maybe:

or:

Man I wish we had one more button on the Bitaxe to use for UI