NightClock Plus
by McConnell (community developer)popularity rank: 112
description: 24 hour Clock. Show headlines from your favorite RSS feed. Touch top half of screen for a quick night light, touch bottom half of screen to return to night mode. Also shows month and date.
preview of 'NightClock Plus' app
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Comments
N3WWN
– March 30 2010
Sorry for the double post.. my placeholders in greater than and less than signs were stripped. What is the proper format of the Yahoo Pipes URL for NightClock Plus? I cannot get past the "undefined" error. I've tried: http://pipes.yahoo.com/[username]/[unique ID] http://pipes.yahoo.com/[username]/[unique ID]?_render=rss and http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=[unique ID] Thanks!
N3WWN
– March 30 2010
What is the proper format of the Yahoo Pipes URL for NightClock Plus? I cannot get past the "undefined" error. I've tried: http://pipes.yahoo.com/ / http://pipes.yahoo.com/ / ?_render=rss and http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id= Thanks!
rluble
– March 02 2010
It seems to me that the TTL annotation is not respected.....
Mithos
– February 23 2010
Anyone managed to get lines from fefe? [http://blog.fefe.de/rss.xml]
oelfredi
– January 10 2010
Addenum I: RSS 2.0 [http://www.tagesschau.de/xml/rss2] and RDF [http://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker.rdf] is working. ATOM [http://www.tagesschau.de/xml/atom] is *NOT* working.
oelfredi
– January 10 2010
At first - I´m not a nerd in these webpage-format things. But what I found out is, that this widget is now working - after several tries. I found some different formats (RSS 2.0, RDF, ATOM - see as an example http://www.tagesschau.de/rss-feeds/ ). RSS is working with "http://www.tagesschau.de/xml/rss2", without an ?format=... and so on. So give it a try - it´s a great widget, I like the combination of clock and calendar togehter with a scrolling newsline. For German users : Of course the "Umlaut - Problem" (ÄÖÜ) is still here.
Shasta McNasty
– January 04 2010
In my previous comment below, I tried to indicate the HTML "break" tag, i.e. "left bracket br right bracket" but that got stripped out...
Shasta McNasty
– January 04 2010
This widget is great, I use it all the time. A couple of things would make it even better: 1. I'd like a mode where it can show the "now playing" music metadata (available through a Chumby API call) instead of an RSS feed. 2. Since it only shows the RSS item title and not the description, how about allocating the space more like 2/3 clock, 1/3 RSS and/or using a larger font on the RSS part? 3. This seems like a bug, but if you have line breaks (not but actual line breaks) in the RSS item title text, the RSS is displayed double-spaced, i.e. like if you did in HTML. I actually like that you do something with the line breaks (I use that feature in a custom RSS feed that I made just for this widget) but can you make it single space? Now that I think of it, I bet I have Windows-style CRLF in my RSS feed, maybe that's why I'm seeing double-spaced output? Will check that out tonight and follow up.
nicpottier
– December 19 2009
Love the look and idea but doesn't seem to work in RSS mode for me for the top NPR stories.. any ideas? http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?id=1001
mpilgrim
– March 15 2009
One small feature that would be nice is the ability to set the number of seconds between rotating to the next RSS item. As described in my previous post, I use it to display weather, with quite a bit of info in each RSS item since I combine the RSS title and description, and trying to digest all the weather elements in 4-5 seconds is a bit tough. Other than that one small thing, I love and use this widget a lot! Thanks!
mpilgrim
– March 15 2009
I use it for weather, although I'm using Yahoo pipes, which requires some hacking. Since this reader only displays the title, and not the description (and all the useful info is in the description) Yahoo Pipes is needed to manipulate the RSS output to either replace or combine the title with the description. Pretty much every weather site has an RSS feed interface to their weather, although many of the big ones like weather.com, accuweather.com, and weather.yahoo.com, tend to put a lot of HTML in their feeds, which is a pain to remove. However, some places like wunderground.com, weatherbug.com, and rssweather.com have text-only outputs that are easier to deal with.
Bug1010
– March 06 2009
do you know if there is any way to get the local weather on this? I like the idea but I would love to have the local weather to look at for the first thing in the morning or local news. Thanks for a great widget!!!
mpilgrim
– March 04 2009
For people who can't get RSS feeds to work using Yahoo Pipes (getting "undefined"), try changing the "yahoo.com" part of the address to "yahooapis.com", which doesn't doesn't have a crossdomain.xml restriction.
McConnell
– January 26 2009
mmmd, it's just not you :) ... Unfortunately, you'll need to run your RSS through something like yahoo pipes or feedburner in order to get passed the undefined message. It's likely a crossdomain issue (check out the chumby forum for lots more on that).
mmmd
– January 26 2009
OK, I am web-inorant - what do I do to get the rss feed to work? I copied it from the browser and pasted in to the customize window, starts with http.// and still comes up "undefined". I would love for this widget to work, don't need anything else as a default! thanks!
adrian.bloomer
– January 09 2009
On virtual chumbys the white turns blue.
ZeroOblivion
– January 08 2009
cant shake the UNDEFINED trying this feed http://honolulu.craigslist.org/mau/jjj/index.rss
TSReese
– January 04 2009
Any way to make it as dark as the built in night mode? As is it is still a little too bright for sleeping next to. Thanks.
smarsh1966
– January 02 2009
the xml feed seemed to work fine.... i will try the xml feed from the pipe i made
McConnell
– January 02 2009
smarsh, this is very odd, it doesn't seem to be working through pipes, but I can get it through feed burner. I'll work towards a fix, but in the mean time, try this link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SignonsandiegocomMetro?format=xml
smarsh1966
– January 02 2009
further... the original rss fedd is from a single source and does not seem to be x-domain.
smarsh1966
– January 02 2009
i tried creating a pipe via Yahoo Pipes..here is the published URL: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=QqKiiivZ3RGlv4Gj6icw5g still getting the same issue.
McConnell
– January 02 2009
Smarsh1966, I think it's a crossdomain issue with the RSS you are trying. You could try running it through yahoo pipes or feed burner. Let me know if you are still having problems.
adrian.bloomer
– January 02 2009
Photos, Stock Quotes, What alarm will go off next, controls for music (http://wiki.chumby.com/mediawiki/index.php/Controlling_BTplay), maybe it could show multiple RSS feeds and show newest headlines first. really, all the chumby widgets just compacted into that bottom part.
McConnell
– January 02 2009
Okay, I'm having the same problem today. I hope to have a fix up later tonight. Thanks!
smarsh1966
– January 02 2009
here is an example of on of a few i have tried: http://www3.signonsandiego.com/rss/headlines/metro/
McConnell
– January 02 2009
smarsh, be sure you are using http:// at the start of the url (not feed://). let me know if the problem persists.
smarsh1966
– January 02 2009
no matter what rss i have tried...it always comes back with 'undefined'
McConnell
– January 02 2009
adrian, what do you have in mind?
TSReese
– January 01 2009
Cool stuff. I could see where a lot of different widgets in night mode would be extremely handy for those of us who wake up a little bit in the night...
adrian.bloomer
– December 31 2008
it should also automatically be white in the day and black in the night. People could set the times.
adrian.bloomer
– December 31 2008
I would like it if you could show other stuff besides RSS feeds in the bottom half.
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