""" 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 = 2020 EVENT_MONTH = 9 EVENT_DAY = 9 EVENT_HOUR = 0 EVENT_MINUTE = 0 # 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+"/circuitpython_day_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 = (8, 207) hours_position = (110, 207) minutes_position = (220, 207) text_color = 0xFFFFFF text_areas = [] for pos in (days_position, hours_position, minutes_position): textarea = Label(big_font) 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)