@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? :)