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Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by slarti (Post 1220881)

My poor skills with scripts haven't yielded results yet but maybe someone with more skills might make this happen more quickly...;)

Thanks. I found that on my particular installation, I have many enabled alarms in "TRANQUIL" state (they don't show up in the UI), and active alarms that I set are in the state "QUEUED", so I query for that specifically (one might also have to query for a specific APPLICATION attribute to filter out calendar reminders, but for me this works at the moment):

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python

# List upcoming alarms on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan

# Thanks to slarti on TMO for figuring out the D-Bus methods

# Thomas Perl <thp.io/about>; 2012-06-13



import dbus



bus = dbus.SystemBus()



time_obj = bus.get_object('com.nokia.time', '/com/nokia/time')

time_intf = dbus.Interface(time_obj, 'com.nokia.time')



cookies = time_intf.get_cookies_by_attributes({'enabled': '1'})



def get_queued_alarms():

    for cookie in cookies:

        attributes = time_intf.query_attributes(cookie)

        if attributes['STATE'] == 'QUEUED':

            yield ' '.join((attributes['alarmtime'],

                            attributes['TITLE']))



print '\n'.join(sorted(get_queued_alarms())) or 'No alarms'

You need to install (using apt-get install as root) the following packages: python python-dbus

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by thp (Post 1221423)

Which version of Billboard are you using? How many lines of text do you want to display? There's a hard limit of possible lines in order to avoid screen burn in.

I'm using 1.0.1 version. My script outputs only one line of text.

Quote:

Originally Posted by thp (Post 1221423)

Yes, the script is invoked with a 1000ms time limit in order to avoid "hangs" by badly coded scripts. Output is captured from stdout.

Isn't 1 sec is too small window :(?. wget commands mostly takes more than 1 sec(depending on network latencies). Can you increase this interval to 3000ms or configurable(configurable but not changeable beyond certain value)

Quote:

Originally Posted by thp (Post 1221423)

Caching the data is actually a good idea, and you should do that in general (e.g. also in cases where there is no internet connection). Also saves battery power.

Agreed!. I also updated my script to check only if internet is connected.

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by thp (Post 1221428)

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python

# List upcoming alarms on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan

# Thanks to slarti on TMO for figuring out the D-Bus methods

# Thomas Perl <thp.io/about>; 2012-06-13



import dbus



bus = dbus.SystemBus()



time_obj = bus.get_object('com.nokia.time', '/com/nokia/time')

time_intf = dbus.Interface(time_obj, 'com.nokia.time')



cookies = time_intf.get_cookies_by_attributes({'enabled': '1'})



def get_queued_alarms():

    for cookie in cookies:

        attributes = time_intf.query_attributes(cookie)

        if attributes['STATE'] == 'QUEUED':

            yield ' '.join((attributes['alarmtime'],

                            attributes['TITLE']))



print '\n'.join(sorted(get_queued_alarms())) or 'No alarms'

That's it?! I really have to start learning python...:rolleyes:

I have a problem though: when I try to run this script in terminal with:

Code:

python ./enabledalarms.py

I get:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "./enabledalarms.py", line 6, in <module>

  import dbus

ImportError: No module named dbus

Nothing is shown in billboard with

Code:

{script:/home/user/enabledalarms.py}

either...

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Ahh... stupid me. I did apt-get install python-dbus and the script works. Still doesn't show up in the standby-screen, though, hmm...

EDIT2: The script doesn't take into account reoccurring alarms. Try setting an alarm named "later" for friday and saturday at 6:30 and one named "earlier" on thursday at 9:00. The script returns on wednesday:

Code:

06:30 later

09:00 earlier

which is wrong.

The recurrence string in the returned attributes has the selected weekdays like this:

Code:

1=mon,2=tue,3=wed,4=thu,5=fri,6=sat and 0=sun

Still can't get the output to show up on standby screen...:(

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Try {script: python /home/user/enabledalarms.py}

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by SamGan (Post 1221742)

Try {script: python /home/user/enabledalarms.py}

Thanks, but I tried that, too. No luck.

For some reason {script: python helloworld.py} works. It only has the line

Code:

print "hello world"

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by slarti (Post 1221763)

Thanks, but I tried that, too. No luck.

For some reason {script: python helloworld.py} works. It only has the line

Code:

print "hello world"

What error you see when you run from command line(aka terminal)??

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by achilles333 (Post 1221822)

What error you see when you run from command line(aka terminal)??

That's just it. enabledalarms.py works perfectly from the command line. Only in Billboard it doesn't.:confused:

Can you get the script posted by thp to work in Billboard?

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by slarti (Post 1221832)

That's just it. enabledalarms.py works perfectly from the command line. Only in Billboard it doesn't.:confused:

Can you get the script posted by thp to work in Billboard?

You can send me your script to me. I will check on mine.

My guess is if it is working from command line then the issue is the billboard app isn't capturing the output. Billboard app is capturing output only if the script completes within 1000ms and looks like your script is taking more than 1 sec(1000ms).

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

I ran the script (without modifications). It worked for me.

So, if it's not showing on your screen then it is the limitation of billboard app to capture the ouput

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Just a quick note on the battery drain side of things.

I did some simple tests overnight (power saving mode so no wifi complications). Disabling the bluetooth python script only saved 1mA in idle and disabling Billboard entirely only 2mA in idle (6mA total BTW and the Meecast widget comes back as standalone). The numbers are so small as to be negligible in the grand scheme.

Seems to be a non-issue compared to my habit of listening to audio/podcasts which is a definite drain on the N9