Many thanks for this - installation was a breeze, all looking lovely. - Richard
On Wednesday 21 February 2024 at 02:10:25 UTC Paul Andrews wrote: > Last release for a while, barring the odd bug fix. Available at the usual > place <https://www.nixies.us/projects/elekstubeips-clock/>. This is the > release notes: > > > - Added a default clock face that includes colons, am, pm and empty > background. > - Added an additional time display mode that uses four digits, a > flashing colon and a display of today's weather. > - Changed the initial configuration to use this clock face and display > the four-digit clock with weather. > - The default weather icons have also changed to *monochrome*. These > icons can be drawn against the blank background and the color can be > adjusted to match the color of the clock face (via the *Weather* page). > - Where the GUI allows you to adjust colors the controls indicate what > will happen as you adjust the color > - There is an additional color control that both displays the current > color and provides an alternate way to modify it. > - The GUI is responsive to the state of the clock - it will hide > controls that aren't used for the current clock state. > - The clock can now display BMP files that have 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 or 24 > bits per pixel. batch_convert_images.py has been modified to produce files > with these various bit depths. > > This is a piccie: > > [image: original.jpg] > > On Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 2:39:34 PM UTC-5 Paul Andrews wrote: > >> >> Tell me more about all this. I would like to provide access to a movement >> sensor, so I’ve ordered a aqara motion sensor and a sonoff zigbee dongle. >> I’m a little confused about the options from there on though. e.g. ESPHome, >> zigbee2mqtt, HA etc. It seems like just polling an mqtt broker would be >> easiest from the perspective of getting data from the sensor but I would >> like this to be as general as possible given the memory restrictions that I >> have in the clock. Any guidance would be gratefully received. >> On Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 10:38:55 AM UTC-5 Benoit Tourret wrote: >> >>> I also like esp web tools, this is a great piece of art !!! >>> I am using the version used on Home Assistant, called EspHome >>> <https://esphome.io/>. this is an esp32, 8266, rp2040 "os" used with >>> simple yaml configuration files. >>> I use it with success for many sensors and displays in my home, and I >>> try to use it on my new clock: B-7971/eight equipped with SmartSockets. >>> up to now I can display time / date and internal + external temperature. >>> I wish I could display message from HomeAssistant... >>> >>> >>> Le samedi 27 janvier 2024 à 02:33:28 UTC+1, Paul Andrews a écrit : >>> >>>> I recently did a search to see if EleksMaker had updated the firmware >>>> for the EleksTubeIPS clock so that it could use the WiFi connectivity that >>>> the ESP32 has. Well, they hadn't, but now *I* have - though I'm not >>>> the first. Note that they released a *v2* of this clock that does have >>>> WiFi connectivity, so this firmware is for the original *v1* clocks. I >>>> went a bit crazy with it: It syncs with NTP, has a web-based GUI, you can >>>> upload new clock faces from the GUI, you can configure it to display a 5 >>>> day weather forecast etc.- details are here >>>> <https://www.nixies.us/projects/elekstubeips-clock/>. >>>> >>>> My software engineer heart particularly loves the esp web tools >>>> <https://esphome.github.io/esp-web-tools/> interface - you can flash >>>> the firmware and connect the clock to WiFi directly from the page above. >>>> >>>> Anyhow, hope you like. >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/c5b5a4de-8fc3-4f80-b144-00eed4db62e4n%40googlegroups.com.
