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Al Linke
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This post is probably best answered by Al (if you're back from PTO yet...)

I have been working with the Clock widget and trying to work it into some of my Batocera / EmulationStation scripts, and have a few questions / comments:

1.  I noticed that while running the Clock widget, the Pixelcade log rapidly fills with entries (every few seconds?) showing which time is being written to the display:

INFO [2023-07-07 16:47:57.047] Displaying Text: 16:47
INFO [2023-07-07 16:47:57.548] Displaying Text: 16 47
INFO [2023-07-07 16:47:58.048] Displaying Text: 16:47
INFO [2023-07-07 16:47:58.548] Displaying Text: 16 47
INFO [2023-07-07 16:47:59.048] Displaying Text: 16:47
INFO [2023-07-07 16:47:59.548] Displaying Text: 16 47
INFO [2023-07-07 16:48:00.048] Displaying Text: 16:48
INFO [2023-07-07 16:48:00.548] Displaying Text: 16 48

Is there a way to suppress this, or maybe make the default be no logging, and then allow a parameter to be passed to enable logging, if desired?

2. I changed the "Font Color" in Widget Settings to a new color, but when running the Clock widget again it continued showing the time in a 'default' red color.  Is the Font Color supposed to control the Clock (and other) widget(s), or is that only for scrolling text?  I exited the settings page and re-entered to make sure my color selection remained as chosen (it did).

3. This may be an enhancement request for a future update, but I'd really like the ability to further customize the clock display.  For example, having an option to split it across 2 rows, and show date on one line and time on another.  Or, allowing the date/time format to be customized, similar to how Linux (and now Windows) allows.  Like, with my main Linux computer, I have the date/time (shown in lower-right corner) coded as

%a. %b. %e, %Y %l:%M %p

which shows as:

Fri.  Jul. 7, 2023  5:10 PM

There may be some limitations I would guess, but I'm hoping some of these features may be possible to add.  Thanks!


   
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not sure if this will work but try appending this to the clock command(s) in your script(s)

 

&>/dev/null

 

for reference:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72252481/suppress-console-logging-on-linux


   
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Al Linke
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Thanks for the prompt reply.  It probably would have helped if I added the code from my script...I basically modified a script posted in another thread (showing how to blank out the Pixelcade), and just changed the first portion of the URL:

#!/bin/bash
curl -s "http://127.0.0.1:8080/clock" >> /dev/null 2>/dev/null &

I believe the ">> /dev/null" essentially sends any bash-related output to the 'null' device.  Is the Pixelweb app writing the log entries directly instead?

 

When you get a moment, I'd appreciate your feedback on the other questions, too....Thanks.


   
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yes pixelweb does write to the console. If that didn't work, will be a bit before I can get to that one


   
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Al Linke
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OK - I appreciate your consideration.

When you get a chance, let me know if you have any thoughts re: changing clock color.  Thx


   
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the font color is for scrolling text, not the clock. In general, the clock is very basic, don't have any way to customize it right now


   
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Al Linke
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OK - thanks again for your help.


   
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