I am using the default clock module in analog mode. Is there a way to enlarge the date up top, and change the thickness of the clock hands?

[briantogo]

I am using the default clock module in analog mode. Is there a way to enlarge the date up top, and change the thickness of the clock hands?

[sdetweil]

@briantogo font-size was easy

.clock .date {
  font-size: 60px; // or whatever
}

the clock hands also easy as they are commented in clock-styles.css
for hour hand

.clock-hour {
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  margin: -2px 0 -2px -25%; /* numbers must match negative length & thickness */
  padding: 2px 0 2px 25%; /* indicator length & thickness */
  background: var(--color-text-bright);
  transform-origin: 100% 50%;
  border-radius: 3px 0 0 3px;
}

change 2 to something else, in all the places

here (and in the screen shot) 4 in custom.css

.clock-hour {
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  margin: -4px 0 -4px -25%;   /* numbers must match negative length & thickness */
  padding: 4px 0 4px 25%;     /* indicator length & thickness */
  background: var(--color-text-bright);
  transform-origin: 100% 50%;
  border-radius: 3px 0 0 3px;
}

clock-minute for minute handle
clock-second for second hand

[sdetweil]

@briantogo yes, thru css. see clock_styles.css

override that in the custom.css

[sdetweil]

@briantogo see the second link in my signature below for help on how to use the browser dev window for css

[briantogo]

@sdetweil
Thanks Sam. I could not find anywhere in the clock_styles.cs to change any of this. The closest I got was a setting under clock-hour/ width. I changed that to 2, and it had no effect. I could not find anything on changing the date size above the clock. And I couldn’t figure out the develpers window, that may be too advanced for me.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Brian

[sdetweil]

@briantogo font-size was easy

.clock .date {
  font-size: 60px; // or whatever
}

the clock hands also easy as they are commented in clock-styles.css
for hour hand

.clock-hour {
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  margin: -2px 0 -2px -25%; /* numbers must match negative length & thickness */
  padding: 2px 0 2px 25%; /* indicator length & thickness */
  background: var(--color-text-bright);
  transform-origin: 100% 50%;
  border-radius: 3px 0 0 3px;
}

change 2 to something else, in all the places

here (and in the screen shot) 4 in custom.css

.clock-hour {
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  margin: -4px 0 -4px -25%;   /* numbers must match negative length & thickness */
  padding: 4px 0 4px 25%;     /* indicator length & thickness */
  background: var(--color-text-bright);
  transform-origin: 100% 50%;
  border-radius: 3px 0 0 3px;
}

clock-minute for minute handle
clock-second for second hand

[briantogo]

@sdetweil
OK, so I get all this Sam, thanks for the help, but now I have a new issue. I’m using a Pi3, and I don’t think it has the horsepower to run Magic Mirror smoothly. The program frequently locks up, mmm-rain-map is the first to freeze. And now I can’t expand the various lines in the developers window.

So now I’m thinking of getting a Pi5 with 16 GB’s of RAM. What do you think?

Thanks,
Brian

[sdetweil]

@briantogo you dont NEED to go all the way to 16g
4 is plenty, but the future is hard to tell

[briantogo]

Hi Sam, I loaded my new RPi5 with 16 GB’s ram, and boy does it fly!

So getting back to issue, I tried changing the clock hands in clock_styles.css. I changed the hour hand to 2 and changed the minute hand to 20, and could not tell the difference.

Also, I could not change the text size of the date above the analog clock. When I use the developer mode, I cannot expand

When I click the drop down arrow, it briefly expands then contracts again.

Any suggestions please?

Thanks,
Brian!

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[sdetweil]

@briantogo disable seconds for the debug then it will stay

you changed both values for both hands, right?

show your custom css for clock

[sdetweil]

@briantogo said in I am using the default clock module in analog mode. Is there a way to enlarge the date up top, and change the thickness of the clock hands?:

I tried changing the clock hands in clock_styles.css

don’t change them there

copy that whole css entry to custom.css

for each hand

don’t change our files