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4 Jan 2014

From the Just-Showing-Off Department:

 

I'm just about as blind as a bat without my glasses.  I had a thought that I could use an old LCD monitor to act as clock in the bedroom and could also show various statuses.  In thinking more about it, I decided that it would need to two primary requirements:

 

  1. That I could see the time without feeling around in the dark for my glasses
  2. That it would meet the minimum spouse-acceptance rating (or at least not violate it)

 

In experimenting over a weekend, I came up with this:

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It's actually four separate frames, running in the Midori browser, which is set to display in full-screen mode.  Frame #1 is a simple Javascript clock.  Frame #2 contains the free weather status/forecast from Forecast.io and updates every 15 minutes.  It looks nicer live because the graphics are animated.  Frame #3 contains the status of various virtual machines running on my lab's ESXi box.  Frame #4 reports the song currently playing on the Jukebox VM.

 

As is usual, I'm still tweaking the backend to this.  I'm not sure that I like the colored status as it looked vary nice as just a 2-color page.  I'm also in the process of learning a bit of Ajax and CSS, to improve the page.  Currently the weather forecast disappears for a few seconds every time it updates (every 15 minutes).

 

Anyone have thoughts on how this can be improved?

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