[Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

[BoomX2]

This thread is for ongoing community support of the SuperDateTime (SDT) screensaver plugin originally created by Greg Brown (@GoCubs).

Original SDT thread: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...ll-Screensaver

I began supporting SDT in December 2014 when Greg Brown's job took him out of country and he was no longer able to maintain it. At the request of a few users I have started this new thread to make it easier for new users to find current instructions for installation and use. Please begin using this thread for discussion, questions, support, and announcements of new SDT releases.

Installation
To install the SDT plugin add the following repository URL to the "Additional Repositories" section at the bottom of the plugins page in LMS. After clicking "Apply" SuperDateTime Screensaver will be available for selection. Select SDT and click apply again. After restarting LMS SuperDateTime is available for use.

Basic Setup
Begin by navigating to LMS->Advanced Settings->SuperDateTime Screensaver. Set your location in the WEATHER.COM IDENTIFIER field. Pay attention to the format used. If an invalid format is entered, SDT will revert to the default location for Chicago, IL USA = 60614:4:US

You need to add ":1:CC" to your weather station identifier. CC=Country Code. This will be the same as the first 2 characters of the station identifier.
NOTE: The country code may not match the ISO standard country codes.
Add ":4:US" to USA postal codes.

https://weather.codes/ is a good resource to find the identifier for your location.

Additional settings are available at the player level for Boom, SB Classic, and Transporter players. Navigate to LMS->Player->SuperDateTime for these settings.

Touch/Radio/Controller setup
For Touch, Radio, and Controller the Custom Clock applet should be loaded using the menus on the player or controller. Several Custom Clock screensavers that include SDT information are available after loading the Custom Clock applet. You can customize the Custom Clock screens or create your own screens through the Custom Clock Helper (CCH) plugin. The Custom Clock applet and Custom Clock Helper plugin were created by Erland. Refer to Erland's thread https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...dio-Controller for more information and community support for Custom Clock and Custom Clock Helper.


SDT Repository URL

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sdt-weather-com/repo.xml
or
https://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/sdt-weather-com/repo.xml

[carsten_h]

Thank you for this thread!

I found a little problem in the German translation of the settingspage.
Nearly at the end, there is this sentence: "Die Standartwerte zu verändern kann", this had to be: "Die Standardwerte zu verändern kann", so only change the "t" into a "d".
In the last line you find the same error: "Standartwert=0.5", this had to be "Standardwert=0.5".

[bluetdi]

Thank you for the Update.

hPa is a little long now, 1 digit after the comma should be enough as before. No digit would also be ok for me.
Windspeed has dropped, was more before. So this seems to work.

Radarmap not yet working, right? Maybe with the next update.

[BoomX2]

Thank you for this thread!

I found a little problem in the German translation of the settingspage.
Nearly at the end, there is this sentence: "Die Standartwerte zu verändern kann", this had to be: "Die Standardwerte zu verändern kann", so only change the "t" into a "d".
In the last line you find the same error: "Standartwert=0.5", this had to be "Standardwert=0.5".

Thank you. I'll correct the error in the next release.

[BoomX2]

Thank you for the Update.

hPa is a little long now, 1 digit after the comma should be enough as before. No digit would also be ok for me.
Windspeed has dropped, was more before. So this seems to work.

Radarmap not yet working, right? Maybe with the next update.

The metric JSON data file provides 2 digits of resolution in the hPa value. I'll round it to zero digits to match what was provided before.

I have had some success with the radar maps and also plan to include them in the next release.

[BoomX2]

SDT Release 5.11.1

Release notes:

# 5.11.1 05/05/20   Weather radar maps are now available through Custom Clock Helper itemtype: sdtweathermapicon 
#                   Added max observed temperature to Extras->SDT menu
#                   Corrected typos in the German translation on the settings page.  Thanks @carsten_h
#                   Added rounding to barometric pressure hPa units.  Thanks @bluetdi
#

[bluetdi]

Works as intended, thank you.
But I will stay to imageicon because stdweathermapicon does not seem to be scalable and rezisible.

BTW: Does anyone know where the backgrounds of LMS are stored: Nocturne, Symphony, Vibrato etc.?

[phred]

This thread is for ongoing community support of the SuperDateTime (SDT) screensaver plugin originally created by Greg Brown (@GoCubs).
Original SDT thread: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...ll-Screensaver
I began supporting SDT in December 2014 when Greg Brown's job took him out of country and he was no longer able to maintain it.

@BoomX2- Thanks for all the work you've done with this project. It's the main reason for me keeping my Touch and Radio alive.

[Ludopi]

Custom Wallpapers:
- make some 800x480 .png files with name pcp_<filename>.png
- copy under /home/tce/.jivelite/shared path/wallpapers/
- backup using 'pcp bu'
- restart jivelite
- select wallpaper under settings->display-> background/
- have a beer [emoji39]

Envoyé de mon Redmi 3S en utilisant Tapatalk

[bluetdi]

Custom Wallpapers:
- make some 800x480 .png files with name pcp_<filename>.png
- copy under /home/tce/.jivelite/shared path/wallpapers/
- backup using 'pcp bu'
- restart jivelite
- select wallpaper under settings->display-> background/
- have a beer [emoji39]

Envoyé de mon Redmi 3S en utilisant Tapatalk

Thank you very much, that‘s what I was looking for. Will try it tomorrow.

[bluetdi]

Custom Wallpapers:
...
- select wallpaper under settings->display-> background/
- have a beer

Worked and I had a coffee.

Next I need to know where to store images (png) that my SDT needs to load for displaying rating stars, the playingicon, etc.
At the moment I store them in the folder /var/www/ and load them with http://<picoreAdress>/icon.png.
That is not satisfying, I have to replace them every time I reboot the Pi because they are lost.

Or do you know a better way to load them?

(It was different in pCP 5.0, there was a folder www in the path of tc where SDT could load them without problems.
With a Touch or the Radio it is easy, you put them in the plugin folder, use the applet path and forget about it.)

Edit: Found a solution. You have to add /var/www to the filetools.lst in the root-folder /opt/. Then everything in the www-folder will be backed up and survive a reboot of the Pi.

[tcutting]

I wonder if @mherger can add boomx2's sdt repository to the 3rd party repositories since we are now back to one working/maintained version?

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[mherger]

[Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaverv5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

> I wonder if @mherger can add boomx2's sdt repository to the 3rd party
> repositories since we are now back to one working/maintained version?

There already are two entries for SDT, of which Greg's is deactivated.
Should I replace the other one?

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Michael

[BoomX2]

> I wonder if @mherger can add boomx2's sdt repository to the 3rd party
> repositories since we are now back to one working/maintained version?

There already are two entries for SDT, of which Greg's is deactivated.
Should I replace the other one?

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Michael

I was going to check on the other SDT entry you referred to. I looked in https://repos.squeezecommunity.org/extensions.xml but did not see entries for SDT. Is there someplace else I should be looking?

[mherger]

[Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaverv5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

> I was going to check on the other SDT entry you referred to. I looked
> in https://repos.squeezecommunity.org/extensions.xml but did not see
> entries for SDT. Is there someplace else I should be looking?

Oh, I was confused by the host name "superdatetimewu" - which points to
CustomClock.

I added your repository.

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Michael