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At-a-glance dashboard for Raspberry Pi with a Waveshare ePaper 7.5 Inch HAT. Date/Time, Weather, Alerts, Google/Outlook Calendar
https://code.mendhak.com/raspberrypi-epaper-dashboard/
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Disable Time #60

Closed ypanle closed 1 year ago

ypanle commented 1 year ago

Hi

Is there a way to disable the time and set the screen to refresh less frequently? I can't figure out how I can do this without breaking things.

mendhak commented 1 year ago

It might be possible depending on why you want to disable the time. If this is related to having a colored epaper screen which has a slower refresh rate, have a look at the 4th layout here, it only has the hour on it:

https://github.com/mendhak/waveshare-epaper-display#pick-a-layout

Then you can set your crontab to go every 5 minutes for example instead of every minute. 

*/5 * * * * cd /home/pi/waveshare-epaper-display && bash run.sh > run.log 2>&1
ypanle commented 1 year ago

Thanks, it was just an aesthetics question rather than a refresh, not having need for a clock in the room it will be situated int. Great work though, it's the only script I've found that will pull in icloud calendar!

mendhak commented 1 year ago

I see, that should still be possible. You can edit the screen template SVG files and remove the TIME_NOW blocks from the SVG file. You will need to edit the SVG file locally, it shouldn't be too hard and you can always re-download the original if you mess up.

https://github.com/mendhak/waveshare-epaper-display/blob/master/screen-template.1.svg

Removing the time block will free up some space too so you can play around with the position of the other elements on the template like the day/date, and the weather/calendar items.