is there a way to get the workflow to check that print statements aren't in the published app to prevent unnecessary data in the build logs / workflow logs?

Hi there!

I'm really excited about this new community apps approach. Thanks for doing this.

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I'm wondering if it's possible to achieve the same thing that the existing NYC Subway departures app does with the location schema? I need a way to accept a user's location and then use that to generate a list of bus steps nearby so that the user can choose one for the app.

Context

I've built a NYC MTA Bus departures app and it's working great for me in my home setup today (currently I'm rendering it minutely in AWS Lambda 🤪).

I'd like to contribute it back to the community. I modeled it off of the built-in NYC MTA Subway departures app, but obviously since that's closed source, it's not quite the same.

In the app today, I've just hard-coded it to use a stop that I care about. In order to make the stop dynamic, I'd need to be able to access the user's location and then query the MTA API to provide stops nearby. This appears to be exactly what the existing Subway departures app does, but I can't quite figure out how to replicate that. It seems like it's not possible.

@matslina and team - thanks for merging my Costco gas app yesterday. I'm not seeing it available in my Tidbyt mobile app yet. Can you look into that?

What are your thoughts on adding a folder for gifs specifically designed for tidbyt? While apps like the Nyan cat look great, realistically a lot of similar animations don't need full fledged apps and could instead be stored in a folder of gifs for people to download and install via the images app. Obviously keep the iconic ones (like nyan cat) but an additional library to look through could make a great addition to the repo

Hi!

I saw the NYC bus app that I made was merged a while ago but I'm still not seeing it in the app to setup. I'm seeing some other apps merged around the same time though.

Is there an issue with the bus app preventing it from getting enabled?

Thanks!

The Strava applet is not displaying correctly on either my Android app or physical Tidbyt. I am able to select the Strava applet and connect my account but no preview is displayed within the application and once I save and add to Tidbyt it does not display on the actual Tidbyt device as expected in the applet rotation order (it simply skips over it). Is anyone else experiencing issues with the Strava applet integration? Or could this be Strava account security settings or something impacting the Tidbyt connection?

Hey everyone - my partner got me a Tidbyt for my birthday and I'm having a ton of fun! Now I want to make a "private" app that updates continuously, but the only thing I've been able to come up with is having a regular job that pushes my installation. Is there an ability to run a custom community or have Tidbyt pull sources from a different server?

@N-Brooks here is where the reddit app is erroring out, when you return rep.headers.get("Content-Type") it returns text/html.

I will update the app to fix this, but the real issue is that a long running animation (animation.AnimatedPositioned) will override the app switch timer

@laurenkopac nothing is really broken, but I don't always see the name and the number display on the tidbyt. I don't know if it is because the text is too long or if it is just getting pushed off screen. May be able to let it overlap the image instead if it helps, just shooting an idea out, but sometimes with the longer names you may not see both either.

I'd be happy to make a change if you'd like, but wanted to know what kind of display you would be okay with before. Additionally, there is now a random.star module that you could use if you'd like if you did not want to make an additional api call.

Let me know what you think!

The built-in Clock applet is not updating automatically (see attached picture showing difference between network clock and Tidbyt clock times). It is possible to force update the time using the below steps but doing so does not cause the clock to start updating automatically again:

1. Let clock get behind correct time
2. Update Clock applet settings (enable/disable Display Location, 24 hour clock, etc.)
3. Save Changes
4. Observe that Clock updates to display correct time when enabling the above changes but then does not update automatically again
   

To provide some level of personalization, a global configuration setting for "preferred color" could be used by app developers to customize the display of their apps. (e.g. setting the display to "yellow" would tint all apps supporting the global variable yellow).

Along with this, color helper functions (e.g. invert, hue-rotate, saturation-rotate, lightness-rotate; see Sass color functions as possible reference) would also be useful in making the app's display colors relative to a single variable.

I'm trying to create an applet that displays detailed Destiny 2 information from Bungie's API (beyond what the current Destiny Status applet shows). Bungie's OAuth documentation specifically states the following:

Do not include the scope parameter. Bungie.net does not define a syntax for this parameter and will reject requests that specify a scope.

However, trying to render an applet with pixlet that does not specify scopes results in the following error:

Error in OAuth2: unpacking arguments for OAuth2: OAuth2: missing argument for scopes

Specifying the scopes field with an empty list results in this different error:

failed to load applet: parsing schema for destiny_2_companion.star: Key: 'Schema.Fields[0].Scopes' Error:Field validation for 'Scopes' failed on the 'required_for' tag

Can the requirement for scopes for an oauth request be removed?

See above image. The current Week 13 stats show this for the AFC South. Houston should be at the bottom.

I am currently trying to make an app that utilizes different characters than the standard latin set. I know that we are limited to the fonts. If I create a font that sticks to constraints of the tidbyt, is there a place I can submit it to be added? And are there any additional things I need to make sure to include if I were to create a custom font?

It would be nice to have a toggle on the isitchristmas app (#380) setting page to only show the widget during the month of December through Christmas day. This would allow the user to 'set and forget' until the appropriate holiday season.

My most favorite applet, the SF Next Muni is totally broken. I think that the API changed out from underneath it?

If you check the API's list of "agencies", "sfmuni" is no longer present. There is an entry called "sfmuni-sandbox" here but it doesn't appear to have any valid predictions when you check for a specific location example

It seems like this applet needs to migrate to a new API. Potentially we can use the data directly from the 511 government agency? https://511.org/open-data/transit

@juniormonkey @dja852, curious if you have any ideas or considered using the 511 API in the initial implementation of the app. I am happy to work on the migration but would prefer not to chasing loose ends if you know more context behind this breakage.

I'd like to submit my bouncing DVD logo app to this repo. Before I do, I'd like to ensure that my code generates a sufficient number of frames so as to prevent the animation from ever looping - it ruins the effect. Right now, I'm generating 300 frames with 100 milliseconds of delay per frame, for a total of 30 seconds of animation. That matches what the life example app uses (see here, here), but is that enough? What's the maximum number of frames (or seconds) per app? Does that limit change if the user only has one app configured? What about if the user sets a custom app cycle speed?

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I don't see a number option in the schema docs. It would be nice to have a number schema (perhaps with min/max limits) for user settings; I believe the current solution would be to either use a text field or a dropdown.

Example: I was considering adding an option to BigClock for "lightness" (effectively "brightness"; using the same color functions added here), so that lightness could be user configurable. Currently, there is a color value coded for "Dark Red", and I was thinking that it would be best to remove that value, and allow the user to select "lightness" independent of the color. (An even better option would be a more robust color picker schema, but a number schema could still be useful!)

PS I copied this ticket from tidbyt/pixlet#223. I'm not sure which repo schema update requests belong in, but this repo seems to be tracking a few.

Some app developers may want to provide a different theme/content at night. Currently app developers must utilize an API to determine daytime/nighttime based on sunset/sunrise times; however it seems that Tidbyt must already be determining this globally for the "dim at sunset" configuration.

Current approach:

resp = http.get("https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json?lat=%f&lng=%f" % (loc.get("lat"), loc.get("lng")))
data = resp.body()
json_data = json.decode(data)
current_time=time.parse_time(now.format('3:04:05 PM'), format="3:04:05 PM", location=timezone)
sunrise=time.parse_time(json_data['results']['sunrise'], format="3:04:05 PM")
sunset=time.parse_time(json_data['results']['sunset'], format="3:04:05 PM")
color = color_nighttime
if current_time > sunrise and current_time < sunset:
    color = color_daytime

Exposing a "magic variable" (similar to $tz for timezone) could simplify this significantly and reduce API requests.

Suggested approach:

color = color_nighttime
if $is_daytime:
    color = color_daytime

@austinrfnd Nice job on the movie quote app. Any chance you could have the title scroll though as long titles get cutoff.

You should just need to wrap the render.Text in the line below with render.Marquee. I am happy to make the quick change myself if you'd like as well.

For apps which allow colors to be customized, it would be helpful if there was a color picker option available within schema. Right now, it appears that the best option is to utilize a list of predefined values with a dropdown schema.

  colors = [
    {"text": "White", "value": "#fff"},
    {"text": "Red", "value": "#f00"},
    {"text": "Green", "value": "#0f0"},
    {"text": "Blue", "value": "#00f"},
    {"text": "Yellow", "value": "#ff0"},
    {"text": "Cyan", "value": "#0ff"},
    {"text": "Magenta", "value": "#f0f"},
  ]
…
    {
      "type": "dropdown",
      "id": "color",
      "icon": "palette",
      "name": "Color",
      "description": "The color to display.",
      "options": colors,
      "default": DEFAULT_COLOR,
    },

My ideal state would be to have the Tidbyt controlled via HomeKit, and use HomeKit to set the color of the display. As long as the app accepts a single color variable, I believe this should be possible.

I noticed the .gitignore file excludes .gif files.

This was weird to me since the authoring instructions include a step to generate a screenshot with a README. However, the .gitignore prevents the screenshot from getting committed unless it is saved as a different file format type.

I would either remove from the .gitignore, or update the authoring instructions if there is a specific reason it was decided to ignore .gifs

I had opened a ticket in the pixlet repo (tidbyt/pixlet#92), but it's been closed and that didn't seem like the right place for it anyhow. Based on the comments in that ticket, I know this isn't a high priority—however, I figured it should be documented in the appropriate repo (this seems like a better place for it).

It would be neat if the app manifest would allow an option for apps to control their own timing before the display progresses to the next app. It would be nice if users could override this value as well (perhaps via an app schema value).

Suggested behavior:

• A global variable exists which controls "default app cycle speed" (this already exists, but it should be displayed in seconds for clarity).
• A global (or app specific) checkbox exists for "Allow app(s) to set their own cycle speed"; setting this checkbox to true, allows each app to control the amount of time they are displayed before cycling (based on manifest value). If this is not set, the default global app cycle speed would be used.

IMO, if there is only one app installed, the display should not "rotate" until an update is pushed. The display currently "rotates" even with only one app installed, which prevents longer animations from executing completely.

@austinrfnd today (dec 26) the app is showing -1 days until Christmas with "display days left" enabled.

There's not a ton of value in having the cents portion of a bitcoin price when the price itself is already five figures. Would be nice to have a toggle (or just truncate by default over 10k, honestly) to disable the scrolling.

Would it be possible to add support for SVG images with render.Image?

What are your thoughts on using Git submodules within this repo? That is, rather than copying source code from my repo into this one, I just git submodule add my repo within apps/. That way, I'd only have to keep one version of the source code up-to-date instead of two. It definitely complicates governance - I'd own the code, not Tidbyt, and thus I'd be responsible for handling PRs - but you'd have complete control over the pointer, and could update/remove it at your discretion.

Alternatively, I could just delete my copy of the code, but that's less appealing to me. I like showing off my projects on my GitHub.

Heads up @ethanfuerst it looks like the app is not displaying correct prices.

Seems like its frozen in time... currently stuck on BTC at $21,214 -0.43% but as of this morning BTC is trading around $17k.

The MLB standings app has been showing the athletics in first for their division even though they're actually last. I saw this for the pirates as well in their division.

It would be great if the incident list was filtered to teams the user belongs to. This can easily be found in the /users/me endpoint to return a teams array: https://developer.pagerduty.com/api-reference/4555ca1c983d0-get-the-current-user

You could then dump that list of IDs into the incidents list using the team_ids[] array: https://developer.pagerduty.com/api-reference/9d0b4b12e36f9-list-incidents

I can't see a reason to not just do this by default, but maybe a toggle in Schema for "show incidents for all teams" would be a good idea to override that default.

@possan love the app.

Any chance you could add configs so a user can set start and end times for their day progress bar.

The percentage value may be over 100% which would be fun to see too.

I could also make the edit myself too if necessary, but would like to get your feedback.

Are apps published to the community server refreshed automatically? As in, is the .star file re-executed at a regular interval and the resulting webp pushed to devices where the app is installed?

If they are auto-refreshed, what is the frequency? If not auto-refreshed, how do apps like clock, weather, and symbol tickers update?

I couldn't find the answer in the documentation.

Did something change in the API?

@cmarkham20

The SF Next Muni app but it doesn’t recognize bus stops. When I type my address or a nearby bus stop’s address, the app doesn’t offer any options. It keeps the default stop (Castro Inbound).

went to do a PR for a new app this morning and I'm seeing errors in build & test when it's trying to do a build of what looks like the SF Muni app

I see someone else's PR from this morning having the same issue.

Anyone else seeing this?

Hello, just getting started with my first Tidbyt app. Running into trouble with the "getting started" steps.

$ make app
go: tidbyt.dev/[email protected] requires
	github.com/ericpauley/[email protected]: missing go.sum entry; to add it:
	go mod download github.com/ericpauley/go-quantize
make: *** [app] Error 1

I have a fix (doing what go is telling me to do), will submit that as a PR.

I wanted to make some changes to it/fork it, but it doesn't seem to be included here (unless I missed it).

Would be really helpful and useful to have a number schema field. 😅🙃

cc @drudge
Thanks for such a useful applet.

The functionality to show Oncall status may not work as expected if there are more than 25 on-call schedules on your PagerDuty account.

The /oncall endpoint, when no limit param is specified is paginated to just 25 results. And your shift may be detailed in later results.

The max limit you can specify is 100, which may not be sufficient on PD accounts with more on-call schedules than that.

For the purpose of determining if the current user is on-call, could we either:

• specify user_ids[]=profile['id'] to only list the current user's on-call schedules? (This is still limited to 25, which may cater for the majority of PD users, unless they are part of a NOC).
• paginate to following pages if more: true? (could impact performance)

could be just me - but whenever there is only 1 match in MLSScores & I render - the app just before it gets cut off / skipped. Trying to determine if this is a quirk when Render delay is set to 15000 or similar. I have moved the apps around and it's always the app just before this one.

Is anyone else seeing the issue?

I also forked the code, changed the sport/league to be English Premier League ( soccer / eng.1 ) and doing manual push via pixlet and I see it much more there (because the number of games in a day).

@aschechter88 I received my first alert and for a few seconds each time it loads it’s a bit funky and jumbled before fixing itself.

It would be nice if it were possible to collect only date or only time using the DateTime control. Also, the selected year is not obvious and it's a bit of a pain to scroll to a date years in the past, like for a birthday.

When I run the file locally it seems to work fine, but once I populate my API key it get a little clock waiting/loading icon and it never shows up on my TidBit.

animation.AnimatedPositioned has an attribute hold that prevents the application switch timer from doing it's job. Not sure if this is purposeful, but it seems as if the application switch timer should have priority over the app. animation.AnimatedPositioned also has a duration that I haven't tested which may also have priority over the app. Close if this is the expected behavior.

Apps are failing the automatic build and test, usually with the following error:

FAIL
make: *** [Makefile:18: test] Error 1
Error: Process completed with exit code 2.

See: PR #758

The API that was powering the PATH Train Schedule app seems to be working once again. The app was disabled back in October due to API issues. I didn't see any other issues for it besides that. Can the app be re-enabled for use?

@Jason-J-Hunt - is there anyway you can remove all the print statements from the NJ Transit app - since they are really just debugging? when other folks push their PRs & a build / test apps - the logs are unusually long and filled with NJ Transit print statements. if you go here: https://github.com/tidbyt/community/actions/runs/3772317485/jobs/6413177415 and open the Test - you'll see what I mean. Makes it a little harder to find the error related to the app being pushed.