request: few ideas for future versions

[kpek]

Hello,

First of all thank you for this amazing project, its working great and iam using it daily in my custom audio mixer since i found it.

I just had few ideas for future versions which could nicely expand the use case of the project, and though id share them:

• it would be neat to have a date and time display together with the VU meters, eg. above them in the upper center of the screen
• add a "peak" red indicator of some sort to the VU meters, when the signal needle reaches the red red zone, eg. flashing red dot in the corner, or maybe whole screen flashing with red overlay
• possibility to use animated GIFs for background, eg. to add that vintage light bulb "glow"
• possibility to add custom image indicators on screen - configurable to be displayed or hidden based on some true/false output from externally called python scripts, eg. plugged in USB stick would show an image of USB in the corner

Thanks, Adam

[project-owner]

Hi Adam,

Thank you those good ideas. Some of them are doable, some not. I don't promise anything but whenever I have time I'll try to implement those which are doable.

• Usually I don't use the PeppyMeter as a stand-alone app. I use it as a screensaver in the Peppy Player. There is a separate Clock screensaver in the player which is dedicated to displaying time: https://github.com/project-owner/Peppy.doc/wiki/Clock But it should be possible to add a clock to the PeppyMeter as well. More likely that would require some font handling which I tried to avoid so far.
• Some time ago I was asked already about peak indicator: https://github.com/project-owner/PeppyMeter/issues/5 I think that should be doable.
• Unfortunately the UI library (PyGame) which I use for the app doesn't support animated Gifs.
• Calling external scripts for custom functionality should be also doable (that's implemented in the Peppy Player) but I'm not sure if there are many use cases for that functionality in case of the PeppyMeter.

Best regards

[kpek]

thank you very much for the explanation and keeping my fingers crossed !

BR, Adam