z1) Yes, always set to dim
2) Wasn’t responsive to remote. It was a screen I didn’t recall, but it’s been a long time since initial setup. I can’t remember if it was the official settings screen per se, or something that looked like it, because it said settings up in the corner (it didn’t show Home). In any case, I touched on one of the corner choices, it switched screens and immediately went dim.
Follow up: Got the green plugs yesterday, which touching the panel in the middle got rid of, with the dim kicking in immediately after that. That makes three days in a row for some anomaly, which is most unusual here.
It has now been a month since I upgraded my P20 to the 1.23 firmware release. It has been running continuously since then, and it has been running perfectly. Nary a problem to be seen, as far as the eye can see.