ngnijland / mmm-text-clock

This MagicMirror module is a clock which shows the time as text.

Niek Nijland - @ngnijland

Front-end developer based in The Netherlands

• 🏢 Working full-time at Polarsteps
• 👨‍💻 Currently doing side projects with:
  • Gatsby
  • SanityIO
  • Hasura
  • React
  • MagicMirror
  • Home Assistant
  • Hyperion
  • SwiftUI
• 🤙 Language of choice: TypeScript

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mmm-text-clock's Issues

Lowercase option

Hi,
I love the compact view, but it would it be possible to have only the first letter in uppercase? I feel like my magic mirror is screaming at me 😂.
Thank you,
Vilhelm

Size does not work

Basic clock works fine; as does compact. Size will not adjust though. size: large produces a blank screen (as does any input i.e. small or large). Can you advise of what the problem might be? I would like to use the large size for the display. Thanks.

Clock simply disappeared at some time

Hi,

I had been using the module without issues for a long time. Then all of a sudden it disappeared. There is simply black screen where it used to be. I did not change anything in the config. With the latest update of MM I had issues so I did a complete reinstall of MM and hoped that would also fix it but it didn't.

I am now on the latest MM from a few days ago. Also latest version of the module.

This is my config

        {
	    module: "MMM-text-clock",
	    position: "top_left",
	    config: {
	    	size: "small"
	    }
	},

No idea why it is not working anymore

Text clock fullscreen

Hi , i love this module , I'm trying to set the module to full screen on a single page, the primary. I would like it to expand based on the rotation of the screen.
it's possible ?

Dutch language

1st off, great work, and wondering if you have gotten around to make the dutch translation?
I have different version, but the translations is a bit of

kind regards ReD

12:25 is displayed as 12:15 for the Dutch language

When I checked the time at 12:25 the text spelled: "Het is kwart over twaalf" while it should have spelled "Het is vijf voor half een"

Multiple instances of MMM-text-clock compete on the SET_LANGUAGE notification

This is a side effect of the new language alternation feature :/

My config is as follows to allow for different layouts depending on the page I display, the problem is that the node_helper.js is global to all instances of the module as documented in this page

Note: Since all instances of your module will receive the notifications, it's your task to make sure the right module responds to your messages.

As a result both instances compete on the language list and the alternationTimeInterval if they are different and when they are the same, double notifications are happening.

		{
			module: "MMM-text-clock",
			classes: "text-clock-homescreen",
			position: "middle_center",
			config: {
				compact: false,
				size: "large",
				language: ['ar','fr','en','es','jp'],
				languageAlternationInterval: 10
			}
		}, 
		{
			module: "MMM-text-clock",
			classes: "text-clock-small",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				compact: true,
				size: "medium",
				language: ['fr','en'],
				languageAlternationInterval: 1
			}
		}, 
		{
			module: 'MMM-pages',
			config: {
				modules:
				[[ "text-clock-homescreen"], 
				[ "clock", "currentweather", "newsfeed", "weatherforecast", "newsfeed",  "calendar", "text-clock-small"]],
				fixed: ['alert', 'updatenotification', "MMM-page-indicator"],
				homePage: 0,
				rotationHomePage: 180000,
				animationTime: 1000,
				rotationTime: 120000
				}
		},

Logging this issue to keep track of it for now, will look at how to best solve it when I have some time.

Display minutes progression for more accurate time display

When the text clock is the only thing displayed on the mirror it is nice to have additional precision and display the minutes past the time that is displayed.

This involves changing the rounding algorithm to the lower 5 minute increment and display dots at the corner past that time e.g. 17:32 isHALF PAST FIVE and 2 dots

This would look like this:

I am implementing it and the way I chose to do this is by extending the grid by one cell all around the clock to position the dots at the corners like so.

Tell me if you are interested that I push this change once stabilised :)

font color & size

two things:

• I'd like to make the font that's the current time another color and the inactive letters darker/dimmer.
• I'd like a size in the middle of xsmall-small or small-medium, is there a way to modify the height/width?

(custom.css is doing absolutely nothing for me)

Minutes for the clock

Hi, I hope you are well.
Sorry to bother you but I have seen that some time ago you were talking about creating an improvement for the module including minutes to be more accurate.
If you finally create it can you share it, I am creating a magicmirror and I would like to put this module that I love, but I need the minutes :).

Thanks in advance!

Fullscreen does not work in combination with `position: "middle_center"

Steps to reproduce:

1. Use the following config:

{
            module: "MMM-text-clock",
            config: {
                fullscreen: true
            },
            position: "middle_center"
 },

2. Start MagicMirror

Expected result:
The clock module should be stretched from the top left to the bottom right corner.

Actual result:
Clock is not stretched and rendered in the center of the screen aligned to the top of the clock.