Clock

The Clock screensaver displays the current time using either format HH:MM or HH:MM:SS. If animated parameter was set to True then the clock will change its position after interval defined in parameter update.period.

Here is the default appearance of the Clock screensaver

Configuration Parameters

Clock screensaver has the following configuration parameters in file screensaver-config.txt:

[Plugin Configuration]
type = font
update.period = 5
military.time.format = True
animated = True
clock.size = 30
font.name = FiraSans.ttf
image.folder = Tube-Orange
show.seconds = False
multi.color = False
color = 255, 190, 120

[colors]
hour.1 = 255, 8, 84
hour.2 = 255, 200, 100
hour.separator = 255, 255, 100
minute.1 = 100, 255, 100
minute.2 = 150, 150, 255
minute.separator = 100, 100, 255
second.1 = 255, 100, 255
second.2 = 255, 161, 145

• type - defines the screensaver type: font or image.
• update.period - defines in seconds time interval for clock position updates if clock is animated.
• military.time.format - this property can be used to specify military time format (e.g. 23:00).
• animated - this property defines if clock should be static or animated.
• clock.size - this property defines the clock width as a percentage of the screen width.
• font.name - it defines the font name in case of clock type Font. The default value is FiraSans.ttf.
• image.folder - defines the image folder name in case of clock type Image. The default value is Tube-Orange.
• show.seconds - True enables displaying seconds, False disables displaying seconds.
• multi.color - True enables displaying clock digits in multiple colors, False enables displaying monochrome digits.
• color - defines the monochrome color for all clock digits.
• hour.1 - defines the color of the first hour digit in multi-color mode.
• hour.2 - defines the color of the second hour digit in multi-color mode.
• hour.separator - defines the color of the separator between hours and minutes in multi-color mode.
• minute.1 - defines the color of the first minute digit in multi-color mode.
• minute.2 - defines the color of the second minute digit in multi-color mode.
• minute.separator - defines the color of the separator between minutes and seconds in multi-color mode if seconds enabled.
• second.1 - defines the color of the first seconds digit in multi-color mode.
• second.2 - defines the color of the second seconds digit in multi-color mode.

The same parameters can be changed in the Web Configuration UI:

Here are the examples of using different configuration parameters with different screen resolutions (480x320, 1280x400):

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