Richard ran in to an issue with the latest firmware (it was continuously connecting to and disconnecting from wifi), so I'm curious if anyone else has tried it and what the results are. For him downgrading to the previous version worked. Naturally I have not experienced this issue myself, but am just wondering whether to pull it from my web site or not. On Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 12:48:07 PM UTC-5 Richard Scales wrote:
> 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/689e7133-8d33-4aa9-b01a-c0e616a250a7n%40googlegroups.com.
