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Getting time from internet!
Getting time for timezone America/New_York
Some error occured, retrying! - Expected 01 but got 00
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Getting time from internet!
Getting time for timezone America/New_York
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"""
This example will figure out the current local time using the internet, and
then draw out a countdown clock until an event occurs!
Once the event is happening, a new graphic is shown
"""
import time
import board
from adafruit_pyportal import PyPortal
from adafruit_bitmap_font import bitmap_font
from adafruit_display_text.label import Label
# The time of the thing!
EVENT_YEAR = 2019
EVENT_MONTH = 12
EVENT_DAY = 16
EVENT_HOUR = 15
EVENT_MINUTE = 59
# we'll make a python-friendly structure
event_time = time.struct_time((EVENT_YEAR, EVENT_MONTH, EVENT_DAY,
EVENT_HOUR, EVENT_MINUTE, 0, # we don't track seconds
-1, -1, False)) # we dont know day of week/year or DST
# determine the current working directory
# needed so we know where to find files
cwd = ("/"+__file__).rsplit('/', 1)[0]
# Initialize the pyportal object and let us know what data to fetch and where
# to display it
pyportal = PyPortal(status_neopixel=board.NEOPIXEL,
default_bg=cwd+"/countdown_background.bmp")
big_font = bitmap_font.load_font(cwd+"/fonts/Helvetica-Bold-36.bdf")
big_font.load_glyphs(b'0123456789') # pre-load glyphs for fast printing
event_background = cwd+"/countdown_event.bmp"
days_position = (50, 40)
hours_position = (120, 200)
minutes_position = (220, 40)
text_color = 0x000000
text_areas = []
for pos in (days_position, hours_position, minutes_position):
textarea = Label(big_font, max_glyphs=3)
textarea.x = pos[0]
textarea.y = pos[1]
textarea.color = text_color
pyportal.splash.append(textarea)
text_areas.append(textarea)
refresh_time = None
while True:
# only query the online time once per hour (and on first run)
if (not refresh_time) or (time.monotonic() - refresh_time) > 3600:
try:
print("Getting time from internet!")
pyportal.get_local_time()
refresh_time = time.monotonic()
except RuntimeError as e:
print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e)
continue
now = time.localtime()
print("Current time:", now)
remaining = time.mktime(event_time) - time.mktime(now)
print("Time remaining (s):", remaining)
if remaining < 0:
# oh, its event time!
pyportal.set_background(event_background)
while True: # that's all folks
pass
secs_remaining = remaining % 60
remaining //= 60
mins_remaining = remaining % 60
remaining //= 60
hours_remaining = remaining % 24
remaining //= 24
days_remaining = remaining
print("%d days, %d hours, %d minutes and %s seconds" %
(days_remaining, hours_remaining, mins_remaining, secs_remaining))
text_areas[0].text = '{:>2}'.format(days_remaining) # set days textarea
text_areas[1].text = '{:>2}'.format(hours_remaining) # set hours textarea
text_areas[2].text = '{:>2}'.format(mins_remaining) # set minutes textarea
# update every 10 seconds
time.sleep(10)