v1.5.5

Changes:

• Added a gradient in the center of the scoreboard to keep the background of the data clear.
• Aligned all the logos for 64x32 to show the better part of each of them.
• You can now create a logo layout file specific to the size of your board. simply create a copy of the original config/layout/logos.json and name it logos_{width}x{height}.json. so for a 128x64 panel you would name it logos_128x64.json (Thanks to @joshkay)

Fixes:

• Fixed issues related to standings not showing
• Fixed issues related to a broken link to the logos API. (Thanks to @joshkay)
• Fix for when the screensaver does have a previous board name set and also fixes for if the dimmer is not used and brightness not set on command line (this removes the fade in and fade out) (Thanks to @falkyre )
• Fix for the RGB Validator in nhl_setup app (Thanks to @falkyre )

v1.5.4

New Features:

• Goal Animation test flag: You can now run the goal animation on loop. the new flag is --test-goal-animation="true".

Changes:

• Standings: The standings have changed this year. You can only use the Division type and the new names are "north", "west", "east" and "central". You can still set to show all of them, or only your preferred division.

Fixes:

• nhl API: fix the issue caused by the changes in the standings and also in the Playoff. the data module now handles the playoff properly.

v1.5.3

Bugfix for the NHL Setup app:
Added a first-run feature so the nhl_setup does not try and validate against a non-existent config.json and quit out on a very first run. Created a new default directory under the config to store config.json.sample and the config.schema.json as fallbacks in case the original files are deleted or moved.

v1.5.2

New Feature.

@falkyre Added a command line parameter, --ghtoken to put in a GitHUb API Token if you have one for doing the updatecheck. Normally not required as the updatecheck only runs every day at 3AM but if you are testing, you might run into a rate limit error without a token.

Bug fixes:

Some fixes to OWM for handling if there is a bad api key or if the key has not been activated yet. Some typos in the NWS alerts. Some fixes for EC forecasts where the full observation data packet is not returned so instead of crashing, things get set to N/A. Added command line option (--ghtoken) to use an github API token for the update checker. This only impacts if you are doing lots of testing and using the updatechecker on the commandline. Normal updatechecks happen once a day at 3AM so only developers might need this option.

nhl_setup will always validate the config.json once it starts,

Dimmer was not setting to night time if a set time was used in the config.
Changed the clock.py to show : instead of a blank when the flash_seconds is set to false in the config

v1.5.1

Bug fix:

• Commented out the division_abbreviation in the nhl_api module. This was the source of the sudden board crash caused by the NHL changing the divisions due too covid restrictions, the some info NHL API.

V1.5.0

NEW

• You can now show off the Stanley cup champions as a standard board. Simply select "stanley_cup_champions" in the board options for any state you want. (off_day for now since there is no NHL right now :( )

from @mrenigma03

• Thanks to this kind folk we now have a Christmas board showing how many days are left until Santa drops in your chimney, eat cookies, drink milk and drop some gift. To use is, just select "christmas" in the board option for any state you want

from @falkyre (Thank you for all the work m8)

• Add weather forecast board (wxforecast) - up to 3 days out anything more is silly
• Weather forecast summary is shortened down to be able to display on matrix. eg "Clearing early this morning. Wind north 30 km/h. High 12. UV index 5 or moderate." will be shortened to "Clear" This is based on the icon_code returned by the forecast provider.
• If you see an N/A in your forecast when using Environment Canada, it means an icon_code is not handled. Look in the logs for what the icon_code is and open an issue. I'll add it to the csv file that's used for lookups
• Add screen saver functionality to turn off screen (brightness =0) @ a time and turn back on at a time. If you have a motion sensor, fade screen on on motion and fade screen off when no motion
• You can use a gif animation for your screen saver. Put in assets/animations/screensaver. If nothing is in there, screensaver will just fade to black
• Screensaver won't be turned on if a game is live
• Screensaver is a blocking board, so anything not running in it's own thread will be blocked (currently this will affect the data refresh of the NHL api and covid api). To block dimmer, weather (current obs, alerts and forecast), set the data_updates = false item in the screensaver section of the config.json.
• While screensaver is active, every 90 seconds a message will be logged stating it's active (so you will know why the board is blanked)
• NOTE!!!!!!! If you set the screensaver times to be active when your teams have a game scheduled, when the screensaver is active it will not stop when the game starts. So choose your start and stop times to be reasonable as you can
• If screensaver is interrupted by the pushbutton, it will show the board for the pushbutton and then restart screensaver after the board the pushbutton launches is complete
• Clock color selection - based on first preferred team colors or by RGB values for clock and date info. If rgb values are invalid, they will fall back to original clock colors. If a team has black as one of their colors, that will be changed to white

UPDATES

• On first weather page, the feels like temperature will now change color based on the temperature. Blue is lower than actual, Red is higher and Green is the same.

• Allow nws alert time to be expire time or effective time

• Dimmer now can be set to use specific time for night and day, if times are set in config, it will override the sunrise/sunset found by your location

• Dimmer can add offset in minutes to sunset and sunrise time. A positive value adds to the sunrise/sunset time. A negative value subtracts from the sunset/sunrise time

• Location can now be (or rather always was) lat/lon: eg "location": "49.8844,-97.147" or even use your home address

• Moved all weather workers (forecast, alerts and current obs) as well as dimmer to be managed by scheduler. Allows for handling errors and not crashing a thread so don't lose any weather data

• Move debug.py to use python logging module and in memory logs (and color in logs if run from command line). New setting "loglevel" can be DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR or CRITICAL

  • NOTE!!!! Be careful with using "debug" = true or "loglevel" = "DEBUG" in config. It logs EVERYTHING that the scoreboard code uses (all modules). Only use this if asked to for troubleshooting. So leave "debug": false in the config unless otherwise asked to set to true. You've been warned.

• Added check to see if the scoreboard was launched at command line so running the Terminal Mode and the new colored logging will only run that way

• Updated the src/renderer/matrix.py draw_text_layout function to allow for a fillColor to be passed. If a fillColor is passed, it will override the layout.json color. If nothing passed, the layout.json color is used

• Updated the submodule to use latest rgb matrix library as of September 17, 2020

• nhl_setup: Added in new sections for screensaver board and additions to the weather, wxalerts and dimmer board.

• nhl_setup: Can now select individual sections to update instead of doing the whole config. The config.json is broken into the following sections: general, preferences, states, boards and sbio. General is the first 3 items in the config.

• nhl_setup: The states, boards and sbio sections all can be configured in their respective individual sections as well. Example: Under boards, you will be asked which boards you want to update and only those ones will be offered to be changed.

• nhl_setup: Updated the underlying questionary library to fix some of the prompt colors.

BUG FIXES

• In the wxAlert.py board, move the statements for shortening Alert Titles out of the warning only and have for all types of alerts
• fixed up the assets/animations/goal directories that were missing. Added .gitignore files in those directories so they are created but are empty of animations
• Remove timezone in the datestring returned from EC for alerts. Normally this wouldn't affect you unless you are testing a location in different timezone from your raspberry pi
• updatecheck argument changed to action=store_true. Now if it's missing on command line, it's set to false. If on command line --updatecheck, it's true. The old command line argument --updatecheck=True is not used now

v1.4.1

Bug Fix:

• Fixed issue caused by scoreboard config.

v1.4.0

Feature

• Added the Stanley cup champions board

v1.3.2

BUG FIX:

• Fixed issues where the wxAlert board would not show on screen

v1.3.1

CHANGES

• Now everytime a team score a goal, the Goal indicator is triggered and the goal details are displayed on the next data refresh
• The Assist board is now a goal detail board showing the scorers and their season total.

Bug Fix

• Fixed issue #130 where the board would crash if an API request from the scoreboard object failed. Now the request failures are handles as usual.
• Fixed Issue where the seriesticker would make the board crash due to failed game overview request from the API while trying to pick up each game info for a single series.