@MichMich, yes I know that. However I’m still “the new guy” here. :)

@paviro, gotta keep you on your toes. :)

This is for @MichMich … on the ‘Configuring the Raspberry Pi’ wiki page, for the rPi-3, disabling the power save mode for wireless is done different.

In /etc/network/interfaces, under the wlan0 section, add:

wireless-power off

Same with the main Hardware one … Oh @paviro!

Adding my idea for an 'urgency' threshold for events, this is what it would look like:

Some day someone is going to have to explain to me how Moment.js thinks that Mother’s Day is 5 days from today. I’m sure it’s semantics, but the way I see it, today is May 2nd, add 5 days it’s May 7th. That’s not Mother’s Day … Mother’s day is on May 8th. I wonder if it’s saying 5 days because it’s less than 6 days TILL the 8th (like 5 days + 8.5 hours). I think it should just say ‘in 6 days’ and ignore calculating whether it needs to round up or down based on how many hours are left in the current day …

Meh.

Possible enhancement: allow a configurable date range on a feed. The reason I mention this is for sites that keep older posts on their feeds. For example, CNN’s feeds will have posts that are months old at the bottom of the feed. I’m thinking possibly a config option that limits that to items that are within a certain range, for example you can tell it to only show you items that are within the last 2 weeks, and ignore everything else after that.

It would probably have to be configurable per feed …

I feel this bit is mandatory. It comes courtesy of a friend who happens to have their house wired up and then this exchange happened one night:

Her: "XBox, turn off all lights"
Lights stay on
Her (louder): "XBox, turn off all lights!"
Lights stay on
Kid4: "Mum, lights are Alexa, not XBox. Alexa, turn off all lights"
Lights turn off
Alexa: "okay"

@MichMich

Yes voice commands would be fine too, I was thinking more in terms of ‘in addition to voice commands …’ Imagine being able to ‘wave’ things away from the screen.

I thought of that last night while working on the Calendar module. One thing that came to mind was, what if it displays a notification when an event is about to happen (say at 60, 30, 15 minutes prior to the event), much like the Google Calendar will send you reminders (if set).

At present state, there is no easy way for the user to dismiss that notification, it’s all done in the config with a semi-fixed timer. So I can display a popup and hide it after x-time. But what if the user could do that … one way is to integrate a button the user could press to acknowledge the popup … then I thought, what if they can simply ‘wave it away’ … hence hand gestures. :)

Hand gestures anyone? :)

@MichMich

An Ultimaker 2, and a 40W laser cutter, one of the many Chinese clones you find on eBay. Though it’s been heavily modified by me (adjustable bed, air assist, better optics, etc., etc.)

I forgot to mention earlier: the bits and pieces of Dutch that come out of me are because I grew up on an island that is part of the Dutch colony, so the first 20-odd years of my life, I also spoke Dutch daily … then I moved to the US and it all went downhill from there.

While new to the project, I have been following it for a while. I just recently decided to build my own. It’s still sitting on my desk at home because I’m also doing a lot of remodeling in the house, so I haven’t quite decided where it’s going to go yet, nor have I gotten the two-way mirror for it yet. Having to decide on a final size is a bit of a challenge when you’re still moving things around and clearing walls only to put something on them, etc., etc. But, that doesn’t mean I’m not having fun working on it and contributing to the code when/where I can.

I’m nearing 45, an IT Director by trade, and a maker as hobby. I work a lot with micro controllers and custom build mainly LED based electronics. When I’m not doing that I’m either doing CAD drawings that end up on my 3D printer, or to be cut on my laser cutter and assembled. And when I’m not doing ANY of those (really, what’s wrong with me?), I’m out hiking and enjoying nature.

I’ll have to remember to come back and post the final product when I’m finally done with it.

This is a request that was made by djsunrise19 on GitHub which i will quote below:

Hi,

today I've seen another behavior. I had an event at 16 o'clock. I looked on both (MM1 and MM2) mirrors at 15 o'clock:

MM1: displays in 1 hour or in 45 minutes (of course, 15minutes later)
MM²: displays today at 16 o'clock

Is it possible to put this function from MM1 in your MM² app? I know that is a personal feature. But in my opinion the MM1 solution fits way better. So you realize that the event is in the near future.

Perhaps we can make that configurable.

This is my current take on it. I added a timeFormat config option that allows you to set it to 'absolute' or 'relative'. When set to 'relative' the time display will look like this:

While in 'absolute' format, it looks like this:

The current code already checks whether an event is happening within the next 48 hours and translates the event time into ‘TODAY at’ or ‘TOMORROW at’. I added another check to see if an event it within the next 6 hours, which will change the time format to ‘in x hours’ which will count down till the event happens:

This is all currently being worked on locally on my fork. Once done I’ll submit a pull request. But I’d like to get feedback from others (as well as from djsunrise19 who originally requested this.) I’d like to know what other enhancements/changes people would like to see.

One thing for me is how I like things displayed. I like the relative time, but only up to a point. For example, if I see an event that says ‘in 2 days’, that will get my attention versus if it said ‘May 4th’. Simply because I may not know what the current date is and see the absolute date won’t mean much. However, at the same time, an event that’s happening 20 days from now, I don’t need it to say ‘in 20 days’. I’m perfectly happy with it saying ‘May 22nd’ on that. So i may add another option, maybe call it 'urgency' and allow it to be configurable to what one would want. For me that would be a week, so that any event happening within a week, it would say ‘in x days’ where everything else further away would display the absolute date. It’s a combination of having both absolute as well as relative dates displayed. That’s just my preference though.

Thoughts?