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decibyte

2012-06-05 09:44

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

I'm using the script option. How often is the script run? Currently using it for a countdown "23days 6hours 20minutes", but it's not very useful, as it seems the script is only run once.

WhitP

2012-06-05 12:04

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Just bought it, but I get what for me is an all-too-familiar download/installation error. Tried a second N9 and the same thing happens. The second is a spare and a very clean setup (not really used after flashing to PR1.2) so I'm not sure a reflash will help, and I'm waiting for PR1.3 to do that in any case.

My experience contacting Ovi store in the past for app installation problems has been pretty hopeless as the query gets passed to Nokia Canada. The N9 isn't supported in Canada so they're not interested and they pass the buck back to the developer

Frustrating as the app looks very useful.

soredawg

2012-06-05 12:51

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Any know a script for Idle usage ? That would be very useful.

SamGan

2012-06-05 12:51

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Thomas Perl - "the Pearl of Harmattan".

Loepoes

2012-06-05 14:24

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Have just downloaded and installed. Great app! Works like a charm together with MeeCast. Well done Thomas!. LOOK forward to further additions/improvements.

thp	2012-06-05 14:28

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by decibyte (Post 1217763)

I'm using the script option. How often is the script run? Currently using it for a countdown "23days 6hours 20minutes", but it's not very useful, as it seems the script is only run once.

Right now (1.0.0 and 1.0.1), it's only run when something else changes, e.g. if you put the battery percentage on there, it's run every time the battery percentage changes.

In the next version (1.0.2), it will be run every 30-60 minutes (using a system-aligned timer, so when other applications are woken up in that time window, Billboard will update). I didn't include the auto-update in the first place, because I wanted to see how such a regular timer affects the battery usage.

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhitP (Post 1217834)

Just bought it, but I get what for me is an all-too-familiar download/installation error. Tried a second N9 and the same thing happens.

I see two options: Try reflashing PR1.2 and then try installing it (without enabling developer mode). Alternatively, enable developer mode, make sure all non-standard apt repos are disabled and then "apt-get update" as root. After that, installation should be possible.

achilles333

2012-06-05 15:19

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhitP (Post 1217834)

I faced the same problem. I ran apt-get clean. restarted phone & it worked. Recently I'm seeing the installation problem from ovi store very frequently

hw9xx

2012-06-05 16:22

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

I faced the download error too, when updating from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1. It failed on multiple tries. I then rebooted and it installed on the first try.

PeterSmurffiPan

2012-06-05 17:55

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Very cool! Thanks :) Decided to download with meecast compatibility enabled.

One thing, I have my phone language as english but full date is displayed in finnish as my regional format is set to finnish. Could this me changed?

Is there a countdown script, like "xx days to billboard update", available to work with coming version?

Thanks again for this app!

edit: One morw thing, would it be possible to choose wether the meecast widget is displayed above or below the billboard text?

Thanks in advance!

decibyte

2012-06-05 18:37

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterSmurffiPan (Post 1217999)

Is there a countdown script, like "xx days to billboard update", available to work with coming version

It's just a few lines of code. Aren't you able to create it yourself? Else, I'd happily share my countdown script.

decibyte

2012-06-05 18:41

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by thp (Post 1217911)

I'd like to have a setting for that, knowing that it might affect my battery usage.

PeterSmurffiPan

2012-06-05 19:02

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by decibyte (Post 1218027)

It's just a few lines of code. Aren't you able to create it yourself? Else, I'd happily share my countdown script.

:) My coding experience is limited only to excel vba. I'd probably find something googeling but help would be appreciated.

Help a noobie out a little bit more, what programming language (don't kill me now) can be used with this app?

A script to show the set alarm time would be cool too...

Thanks in advance!

thedead1440

2012-06-05 20:02

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

thp, when choosing to centre the text alignment and having MeeCast together the billboard text centres not only in width but height also leading some parts of it to be overlapped with Meecast. Left and right text alignment work fine.
thanks.

thp	2012-06-06 09:48

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterSmurffiPan (Post 1217999)

One thing, I have my phone language as english but full date is displayed in finnish as my regional format is set to finnish. Could this me changed?

The regional format is what's used for things like displaying currencies, dates, times and other things - the system automatically uses this for formatting the date and time. You can of course change the regional format to English and then it should display it in English.

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterSmurffiPan (Post 1217999)

One morw thing, would it be possible to choose wether the meecast widget is displayed above or below the billboard text?

I'll think about it.

thp	2012-06-06 09:51

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedead1440 (Post 1218074)

when choosing to centre the text alignment and having MeeCast together the billboard text centres not only in width but height also leading some parts of it to be overlapped with Meecast.

Indeed - that's a bug; thanks for noticing. Will fix that soon :)

LavaCroft

2012-06-06 10:31

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

It seems that the MeeCast widget for the stand-by screen is behaving erratically when used in conjuction with Billboard. Sometimes it decides to just not pop up, but it always decides to pop up eventually.

PeterSmurffiPan

2012-06-06 10:47

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by LavaCroft (Post 1218323)

Hey,

I've noticed the same. In my experience it seems to be related to the updating of the weather information and when refreshing notification screen (which also updates weather info).

LavaCroft

2012-06-06 10:52

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterSmurffiPan (Post 1218331)

Hey,

I've noticed the same. In my experience it seems to be related to the updating of the weather information and when refreshing notification screen (which also updates weather info).

MeeCast is set to update every 4 hours, but the oddness with the widget happens more frequently than that. I am unaware of any other way it would be updating the weather info besides me forcing it in MeeCast itself.

PeterSmurffiPan

2012-06-06 12:07

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by thp (Post 1218303)

Hey,

thanks for the reply. The date has today changed in to english even though I didn't change my settings at all.

Strange, but I'm not complaining :)

PeterSmurffiPan

2012-06-06 12:14

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by LavaCroft (Post 1218334)

Hey,

press refresh on the notification screen and immediately press close button to get to the standby screen. You'll see a flicker of the meecast widget as it updates itself.

This happens to me every time.

WhitP

2012-06-06 13:22

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Eventually got the installation done after much messing about (Thomas' option 2 was preferable to 1) - looks really good with Meecast :-)

WhitP

2012-06-07 02:15

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Unfortunately my experience with python scripting is only fractionally over nil.
It would be very handy to have an indication whether BT is on or off to help avoid unnecessary battery drain.
Can anyone point me towards some python documentation that might help (or share any existing script)? Google is pointing me to stuff relating more to app development rather than simple scripting..

thp	2012-06-07 12:18

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhitP (Post 1218675)

Can anyone point me towards some python documentation that might help (or share any existing script)?

That should help:

Code:

import dbus



bus = dbus.SystemBus()



bluez = bus.get_object('org.bluez', '/')

adapter_path = bluez.ListAdapters(

    dbus_interface='org.bluez.Manager')[0]

adapter = bus.get_object('org.bluez', adapter_path)

powered = adapter.GetProperties(

    dbus_interface='org.bluez.Adapter')['Powered']



if powered:

    print 'Bluetooth on'

else:

    print 'Bluetooth off'

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

achilles333

2012-06-07 15:38

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhitP (Post 1218675)

Also another solution is, you can install this app 'profileMatic' & set up rules when to turn on or off bluetooth. This will stop bothering about bluetooth status.

Link
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=79642

Boomboxx

2012-06-07 18:14

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Maybe for date mmddyy mm/dd/yy mm-dd-yy dd-mm-yy
so that the user can specify the format however they want just by using m's d's and y's

Im having a problem tho, I love this app, and I only wish it displayed correctly. I waited for the update, but it didnt fix my problem. Alligned left, it displays starting at the : colon below the clock, and cuts off whatever come off the screen. It moves around following the clock, with the tail cut off. I've already updated the software to 1.0.1. Anything I can run in the terminal to fix this? When I run nano on libsysuid-screenlock-nokia.css its empty. More details on that if necessary. Thanks THP for your development

10:59

07/06/20
Bat 89%
Online

^ That should display over to the right, a few pixels on the year's 0 are cut off

thedead1440

2012-06-07 18:22

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

for nano:

go to terminal
devel-su
(your password)
nano /usr/share/themes/base/meegotouch/libsysuid-screenlock-nokia/style/libsysuid-screenlock-nokia.css
now edit the file as you wish.

thp	2012-06-07 18:33

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boomboxx (Post 1219083)

Maybe for date mmddyy mm/dd/yy mm-dd-yy dd-mm-yy
so that the user can specify the format however they want just by using m's d's and y's

Already implemented, will be available with the next update (new items to insert: Weekday name, Day of month, Month, Year). That should hopefully cover all cases ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boomboxx (Post 1219083)

Im having a problem tho, I love this app, and I only wish it displayed correctly. I waited for the update, but it didnt fix my problem. Alligned left, it displays starting at the : colon below the clock, and cuts off whatever come off the screen. It moves around following the clock, with the tail cut off. I've already updated the software to 1.0.1.

Did you reboot after the update (ideally with the charger unplugged, so that the device really shuts down). Switch it off without a charger connected, wait a bit, then turn it on. If you have installed the update, I can't see why it won't work (but would be glad to figure out the problem, so I can make the installation even more robust in the upcoming versions).

WhitP

2012-06-07 20:34

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by achilles333 (Post 1218982)

I've been using Profilematic for a long time - it's one of my most important apps.
However I regularly use BT speakers for podcasts etc and I don't always remember to turn BT off!

mohannad

2012-06-07 21:02

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

@thp. Great app!

How did you get the calendar entries to appear as in http://www.flickr.com/photos/thp4/73...n/photostream/ ?

EDIT: ok i just saw that this is WIP. That'll teach me to not go through other people's photostream.

WhitP

2012-06-07 21:32

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by thp (Post 1218903)

That should help:

Code:

import dbus



bus = dbus.SystemBus()



bluez = bus.get_object('org.bluez', '/')

adapter_path = bluez.ListAdapters(

    dbus_interface='org.bluez.Manager')[0]

adapter = bus.get_object('org.bluez', adapter_path)

powered = adapter.GetProperties(

    dbus_interface='org.bluez.Adapter')['Powered']



if powered:

    print 'Bluetooth on'

else:

    print 'Bluetooth off'

That works great - thanks! :D
Obviously it only updates when something else has changed but it will do the intended job. I have my Meecast update every 30mins so it'll do.
There's a strange line feed in there from the script but that might be due to me being lazy and creating the script file on my windows laptop.

PeterSmurffiPan

2012-06-07 21:56

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by LavaCroft (Post 1218323)

After using this app for a while I discovered that this is indeed an issue. It seems that the meecast widget doesn't get moved to the bottom right corner and gets covered by the billboard text. I can se the widget briefly in the upper right corner.

Plus, every time I choose the text color green yhe billboard text disappears.

Anyone else experienced same issues?

But never the less, this app is nice!

dagee04

2012-06-08 03:46

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

What I'm trying to figure out is before the update the text lined up in the center of the standby screen. But after the update even though text alignment is centered the body of text itself sits towards the left of the screen. Sometimes it moves back to the center but for the most part it's on the left.

thedead1440

2012-06-08 04:06

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

ya its a bug...thp mentioned it on pg 6 or 7 of this thread that he knows about it...

OVK	2012-06-08 08:04

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

I must be missing something/doing something wrong but why does the date not change automatically? I am only using "compact date" option and a line of text (my slogan ;) ) below it. I have rebooted after the update to 1.0.1. version.

Sorry if this is already discussed.

Kein	2012-06-08 09:55

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Hi thp, version 1.0.1 still display the last video played in place of the song title and remains even after closing the video. Not cool if your videos have titles like psst...psst..."Hot Japanese Lesbians". :eek:

thp	2012-06-08 10:15

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by mohannad (Post 1219155)

How did you get the calendar entries to appear as in http://www.flickr.com/photos/thp4/73...n/photostream/?

This will come with the next version, I still need to debug it a bit more ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by dagee04 (Post 1219253)

That's intended. Making the area of the billboard text as small as possible increases the possible positions where the clock can "jump to", avoiding excessive screen burn-in (instead of moving only vertically, it can also move horizontally). That's also the reason why the clock "jumps" by default - otherwise it could just stay in the top right corner.

Quote:

Originally Posted by OVK (Post 1219319)

See the first part of this post.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kein (Post 1219373)

version 1.0.1 still display the last video played in place of the song title and remains even after closing the video.

It's on my TODO list, but not fixed yet. For now, just play a song and close the music player to clear the now playing info (IMHO it's actually a bug in the Video Player, as it should clean the Media.NowPlaying contextkit property when it closes, but I'll try to work around this - probably with some MAFW integration).

Vromoth

2012-06-08 11:33

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

I Have i much bigger battery drain in 1.0.1 Than 1.

SamGan

2012-06-10 01:50

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vromoth (Post 1219421)

I Have i much bigger battery drain in 1.0.1 Than 1.

No difference in battery drain for me between the 2 versions. In fact I don't detect any battery drain at all from my normal consumption. If you run scripts it may be different.

I'll like to ask thp a question. How often do scripts run to update data like an uptime script for instance.

dagee04

2012-06-10 06:12

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Seems true about the battery drain

thp	2012-06-11 08:41

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

There is no battery drain in either the older or the newer versions - it has been written with energy consumption in mind, and has been tested and measured.

If you think there is, please measure it and report the findings, and make sure that you measure the usage of the "billboardd" daemon, not any other applications that you might have running on your device (or coincidentally installed around the time of the upgrade).

Of course, any application that runs on your device will use some power, but in the case of Billboard, it's mostly just sitting idle and taking up some RAM / swapspace.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SamGan (Post 1220069)

How often do scripts run to update data like an uptime script for instance.

See this post.

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