Release [Upcoming] Pandora Clock

[ekianjo]

24-Hour-Mode would be cool, not the whole World has AM/PM:


So it would ne nice, wehn I can use fpr 2pm -> 14:00

Please see the first post, this is already supported I do not use AM/PM myself, I prefer a 24 hours clock.


So you can select or unselect the AM/PM mode,

 

[emilio]

Oh Sorry, than this app will be great!

 

[Askarus]

Would you be interested in new features such as :


- Pomodoro function (having a 25 mins countdown timer to monitor your time spent on tasks while keeping efficiency ?)


- Countdown timer for any duration ? (could be useful if you are cooking, for example, and need to wait for a while)

Countdown timer?


WANT IT.


Stopwatch would be also great then .

 

[ekianjo]

Countdown timer -> easy.


That can be done and finished in a few days.


Stopwatch -> that, I dont know, in terms of performance. Currently I refresh the display every 1/2 sec, so I'd need to go to a much faster refresh rate in order to enable a stopwatch function. It can be done, I guess, I just need to try it

 

[_wb_]

Refresh rate is not that important for a stopwatch, reaction speed to start/stop button presses is more important (and of course accurate time keeping in between, but that should be easy enough)

 

[ekianjo]

Refresh rate is not that important for a stopwatch, reaction speed to start/stop button presses is more important (and of course accurate time keeping in between, but that should be easy enough)

True, but its better if you have both, right ?

Major bugs fixed, interface relatively polished....


it's PND time !


Will be available shortly unless I face issues to make a PND ( __wb__ stay around just in case!)

 

[_wb_]

(standing by)

 

[ekianjo]

Allright, I have an issue... nothing happens when I run the application... maybe my run.sh has an issue ?


#!/bin/sh


export PATH="$PWD/bin{PATH:-"/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin"}"


export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD/lib{LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-"/usr/lib:/lib"}"


export HOME="$PWD" XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$PWD"


export QTDIR="$PWD"


export PYTHONPATH="$PWD/lib"


python ./essai.py

 

[_wb_]

Check /tmp/pnd_out* to see what happened.

 

[ekianjo]

Here it is :


=======================================================================================


PND : /media/mmcblk0p1/pandora/menu/PND.pnd


PND_FSTYPE : ISO


APPDATADIR : /media/mmcblk0p1/pandora/appdata/pandoraclock-app


APPDD_FSTYPE : vfat


PND_CPUSPEED : <unset>


EXENAME : run.sh


ARGUMENTS : <unset>


=======================================================================================


[ START ]--- Mount the PND ----------


Mounting : mount -o ro "/dev/loop0" "/mnt/utmp/pandoraclock-app"


Mounting the Union FS : mount -t aufs -o exec,noplink,dirs="/media/mmcblk0p1/pandora/appdata/pandoraclock-app=rw+nolwh":"/mnt/pnd/pandoraclock-app=rr" none "/mnt/utmp/pandoraclock-app"


[sUCCESS]--- Mount the PND ----------


[ START ]--- Starting the application (run.sh ) ----------


/usr/pandora/scripts/pnd_run.sh: line 546: ./run.sh: Permission denied


[ FAILED]--- Starting the application (run.sh ) ----------


[ START ]--- Restoring the frame buffer status ----------


[sUCCESS]--- Restoring the frame buffer status ----------


[ START ]--- uMount the PND ----------


[ START ]--- Waiting the Union to be available ----------


[sUCCESS]--- Waiting the Union to be available ----------


auplinklink.c:223: AUFS_CTL_PLINK_MAINT: Inappropriate ioctl for device


rmdir: failed to remove `/mnt/utmp/pandoraclock-app': Device or resource busy


[ START ]--- Waiting the PND mount dir to be free ----------


[sUCCESS]--- Waiting the PND mount dir to be free ----------


cleanup done


[sUCCESS]--- uMount the PND ----------


=======================================================================================


Return code is : 2

It seems like it is a permission problem...?

 

[ekianjo]

Allright, simply had to do a chmox +x on the run.sh


Done, the app works now.


Last problem to solve: the app creates a profile.txt to save the preferences, but somehow when I make the PND the profile.txt is not created and is not visible in appdata folder either... how do I fix that ?

 

[KickAss]

dude, awesome stuff! looks very professional.


will totally use this once my unit finally gets here.


thanks for developing this in python, as i will eagerly study your code and learn.

 

[ekianjo]

thanks for developing this in python, as i will eagerly study your code and learn.

See page 2 of this topic, I am not releasing the code and I explain why there

 

[ekianjo]

Allright here is the PND for testing ! Thanks __wb__ for the tricks for the profile.txt


One known bug: the internet connection is somehow not detected when you connect after launching the app... so you'd better launch it first.


Otherwise the rest "should" work [crossing fingers]


EDIT: attachment removed, PND is stored in first post of this thread.

 

[budweiser]

Thanks , going to give it a try

 

[budweiser]

Would you be interested in new features such as :


- Pomodoro function (having a 25 mins countdown timer to monitor your time spent on tasks while keeping efficiency ?)


- Countdown timer for any duration ? (could be useful if you are cooking, for example, and need to wait for a while)

Yes that would be nice , everything seems to work very nice , only suggestion I have is to make the weather able to show Fahrenheit (°F) as a option...


Thanks Bud....

 

[ekianjo]

Fahrenheit! Should be possible!


Will work on that right away

 

[budweiser]

Fahrenheit! Should be possible!


Will work on that right away

Excellent , take your time your hard work is appreciated ,and you asking for user suggestions is A++++ in my book..


Thanks Bud

 

[ekianjo]

Excellent , take your time your hard work is appreciated ,and you asking for user suggestions is A++++ in my book..


Thanks Bud

That shouldn't take too long


Thanks for the appreciation and in my book user feedback is A++++ as well

 

[thatgui]

Some things that came to my mind when I took a brief look

• I don't think Network is an appropriate category (maybe see here for an idea)
  
• the clock seems a bit lost on the Pandoras Display -maybe increase the text size slightly (10% ?)
  
• Fullscreen Mode should be saved via profile.txt too
  
• interacting with it the feels real nice and intuitiv
  
• bottom bar is a real nice idea (sensible idea to dimm it after a certain time)
  

All in all for me its a valuable addition to the Pandoras software collection. If a proper alarm system would be implemented, it could see this replacing my iPod touch as a alarm clock.


Edit:


Something I forgot:

• as there is no real mouse interaction possible, hiding the mouse cursor would be nice
  
• is there a special reason why the up/down buttons of the bottom bar aren't dimmed with the rest of the elements on screen ?