Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts
Hello, I'm new to Squeezebox & the forums. I've been playing around with this plugin, and I think it's really great. My problem is that I'm using a SB Boom, and the WeatherTime display seems oriented for the other SB devices. Are plugins difficult to program? Would it be a lot of work to add Boom support so the screen layout doesn't truncate the time display? I love the weather feature, but I'm using the Boom as the main clock in my room, so a truncated time display is problematic. -- bsc001 -------- bsc001's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22844 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21989 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] MusicInfoSCR 4.3 - now with theOriginal Boom Booklet Layout
I'm using the v4.3.7 via extension downloader, and there is no MusicInformationScreen tab anywhere on the settings tab. I've looked through every screen, pulldown, etc., and just can't find it. Was this a problem a few months ago? Any chance the new version of SqueezeCenter broke this again? Thanks! -- bsc001 ---- bsc001's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22844 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53347 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts
martin.rehfeld;386143 Wrote: > I can only suggest playing with the date/time related setup options. > Would there be enough space to display the time only? Unfortunately, the BOOM can't even display the time correctly. I have no idea how to find the pixel width, but I can tell you that when you look at the word "TODAY" (above the time), we can only see 1 pixel of the "Y". So, looking at the time of 12:30, about 1/3 of the "3" is cutoff, and the "0" is completely off the screen. Nothing else (i.e. date) after that displays. It looks like the device itself doesn't understand it's limits. If you turn-off Squeezecenter, the "Cannot connect to SqueezeCenter" message is cropped (we lose 1/3 of the "e" and then the full "r" of that message). It's a great little device, but I have no idea why they made the display so narrow. There is plenty of space on either side that they could have used :( Is there any way to play around with the icon strings, font size, or anything else to make the Boom work? There is a fair amount of empty space between the temp/precip readings and the start of the time display. If nothing else, it'd be great to be able to at least display the time. Thanks for any suggestions! -- bsc001 bsc001's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22844 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21989 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts
BOOM support. From what I can tell, the problem with trying to make this great application work with the Boom is that it relies upon the native Time support from the device, including the standard line 1 & 2 for the time/forecast display. Combined with the very narrow size of the Boom window (approx. 150 to 160 pixels), this offers limited options to get the time/date/forecast to display correctly. I've been working on some enhancements to the main plugin to provide Boom functionality. Basically, I've moved the standard line 1 & 2 displays off to the right so they truncate off the boom screen. I then do some tweaking to the spacing, and re-use the custom 5x7 character set to display the time, date, precip, wind, and forecast onto the small Boom window. The time/date/forecast font is the same size as the other weather stats, so it doesn't jump out at you the way it does on the other devices--but that's a small price to pay (to me). Also, the time is now updated on the weather refresh rate, so if the refresh rate is set a high, the time will lag until the next refresh.The two screens (one with forecast, one with wind/precip) alternate every 15seconds. Assuming Boom owners are ok with this (and the alternative is that it doesn't work for us), I've been testing against SqueezeSoft and our Boom at home, and I think I've got some simple code additions that can provide Boom support without affecting the functionality for all the other devices. There's one main snipped of code, but a couple other modifications are necessary: need to display an alternate logo on startup, need to modify the gxwidth when a Boom is detected, need to add a colon to the 5x7 character set. If it weren't for these little changes, it would be an easy piece of code to publish in the forums here for scrutiny. What's the best way to propose these changes? Is there a location for the latest version of source code I could get, then make the code changes and propose the modified code? Or, is there some better way? I really like the now-working WeatherTime plugin on my Boom, would like to offer that to my fellow Boom owners. I've attached two images showing what the BOOM screen will look like with these modifications. Thoughts? +---+ |Filename: BOOM2.bmp| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6794| +-------+ -- bsc001 ---- bsc001's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22844 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21989 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts
Thanks both for the feedback.I'm completely with you on non-bloated
code. the tweaks necessary to support the BOOM are small:
1) Use $client->isa("Slim::Player::Boom") to identify Boom, and do all
the following inside a "if ( $client->isa("Slim::Player::Boom") ) "
wrapper
2) Adjust gxwidth to move the standard timeline display to the right
3) Add a ":" to the custom 5x7 character set, so the time can display
properly
4) Tweak retrieveWeather function:
- Capture both wind & precip info (instead of one or the other)
- Minor string formatting (mostly stripping extra spaces) for
weather strings
- Draw text to different locations, store forecast/wind/precip to
variables
5) Add date/time display to tictac (not retrieveWeather) -- good call
on this, I was wrong to put this in the retrieveWeather section
Again, thanks for the suggestions. I'll make the modifications to the
latest code, and then offer it up for scrutiny.
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