Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen
 

The problem with this is that the video app (or a contextkit provider) doesn't remove the title when playback is stopped. All Billboard does is read the Media.NowPlaying contextkit property. I'll see what I can do, but no promises, especially since querying the active applications and monitoring what is closed and so on could lead to decreased battery life, so I might end up not fixing it for battery consumption reasons (just relying on contextkit makes sure that the display is only updated when something changes, and also that Billboard doesn't have to do any additional monitoring, which is light on the battery).

If you have to watch videos with titles that you are embarrassed about, just take a few seconds afterwards to open the music player and start/stop a song - this will clear the display. Or just remove the currently-playing media fields from your Billboard settings ;)

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen
 

Or even better rename those files :p

Regards Dousan...

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen
 

Hey there!

As mentioned on friday, I tested the "today-events"-option with several calendars throughout the weekend. These are my findings:

(1) there are no problems with different calendars. In my case, there are five of them, all shown properly on the lps after booting!

(2) ... but, when I add a new calendar item, the today-events don't get updated! This is independent on the sync-details - I tried everything from daily to every ten minutes. In fact, that's the explanation for all my issues posted before.
Workaround: After rebooting the device, the newly added events show up!

(3) Unfortunately, recurrent events do not show up at all in today-events. Only one-time events are displayed on the screen. Maybe they are stored in another format, and have to be read out differently?


I hope, you will find a solution here. I like the fact, I don't even have to unlock my phone to check my dates. But these issues make this feature not reliable. :-(

Thanks in advance!

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen
 

Thanks for taking the time to testing this, and explaining what you did and what the results were - this helps tremendously in debugging! :)

Have you also tried waiting for a few minutes (up to 60) to see if the events show up? For battery usage reasons, some events are cached (for max. 1 minute) and not updated all the time, but after 30-60 minutes (because of the system-aligned timer), both Billboard and the event caches should have refreshed at least once.

Try this:

• Add a new event
• Wait for at least 1 minute
• Change the text color in Billboard to force an update

Yes, could be. I thought I have tested recurrent events with my Uni calendar, but could be that the Uni just "decomposes" the recurrences in the ICS export...

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen
 

Yeah, I did waiting and all the stuff (color changing, starting the music player for song display, showing the battery level...). Unfortunately, the {today-events} section does not get updated.
BUT, what I found out just now: The regular {events} option does show the newly set up date! (I did not use that before, as I want to keep the lps as clean as possible)
So, I guess, it's just the {today-events} function that is buggy?!

If your uni works as the one here in Cologne - that might be the case ;-)

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen
 

Hi,

first; thank you for that great application :).
Second: about Calendar. I have 2 meetings, one for tomorrow and a second one for the day after tomorrow.
So your application is showing:
+1 1st meeting
+2 2nd meeting.

Ma question is: is there any way to set up the calendar view ? I mean how to set up the number of events displayed for instance?

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen
 

Anyone else have issues downloading the latest update from Ovi? The download just keeps failing for me.. Other apps update fine..

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen
 

well it got updated here fine... I did have a problem a few updates earlier but its all due to the store... What u can do is if the installation is failing, the .deb file should have been downloaded to /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/

pick it up from there and install it...

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen
 

Received the update and it works fine ! Still have two different colours for the clock and text below it !!!! Looks quite inappropiate !!!!! Please include modifiying the colour of the clock also !!!!!
Regards !!

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen
 

Received the update and it works fine ! Still have two different colours for the clock and text below it !!!! Looks quite inappropiate !!!!! Please include modifiying the colour of the clock also !!!!!
Regards !!