# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Limor Fried for Adafruit Industries # # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT """ This example will figure out the current local time using the internet, and then draw out a count-up clock since an event occurred! 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 = 1972 EVENT_MONTH = 12 EVENT_DAY = 7 EVENT_HOUR = 5 EVENT_MINUTE = 55 # 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+"/countup_background.bmp") big_font = bitmap_font.load_font(cwd+"/fonts/Helvetica-Bold-24.bdf") big_font.load_glyphs(b'0123456789') # pre-load glyphs for fast printing years_position = (126, 15) days_position = (13, 41) hours_position = (118, 41) minutes_position = (25, 68) text_color = 0xFF0000 text_areas = [] for pos in (years_position, days_position, hours_position, minutes_position): textarea = Label(big_font, text=' ') 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) # We're going to do a little cheat here, since circuitpython can't # track huge amounts of time, we'll calculate the delta years here if now[0] > (EVENT_YEAR+1): # we add one year to avoid half-years years_since = now[0] - (EVENT_YEAR+1) # and then set the event_time to not include the year delta event_time = time.struct_time((EVENT_YEAR+years_since, 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 else: years_since = 0 print(event_time) since = time.mktime(now) - time.mktime(event_time) print("Time since not including years (in sec):", since) sec_since = since % 60 since //= 60 mins_since = since % 60 since //= 60 hours_since = since % 24 since //= 24 days_since = since % 365 since //= 365 years_since += since print("%d years, %d days, %d hours, %d minutes and %s seconds" % (years_since, days_since, hours_since, mins_since, sec_since)) text_areas[0].text = '{}'.format(years_since) # set days textarea text_areas[1].text = '{}'.format(days_since) # set days textarea text_areas[2].text = '{}'.format(hours_since) # set hours textarea text_areas[3].text = '{}'.format(mins_since) # set minutes textarea # update every 10 seconds time.sleep(10)