Schowtime Kual extension, Show current time while reading

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Hanspeter

Hi,

added a new version to the first post where you can select if the time should be displayed in row 0 or row 1.

Also there is a action to copy the system log, that is used to find the page turns, into the showtime/bin directory. Start the extension on the touch, open a book, scroll some pages, got to the main menu with the wrong display, open kual as select the copy system log action. Then attach the messages.log here.

HaPe

It would be a nice thing for the newbies if the archive name did not have a space in it.

[poczynek]

I have a Kindle Oasis and mine only works after i go to Kual and use the Showtime Button and then it only works for that page i am reading and then goes after that. Anything else i need to do?

[Hanspeter]

Originally Posted by knc1

It would be a nice thing for the newbies if the archive name did not have a space in it.

ok, done

[Hanspeter]

Originally Posted by poczynek

I have a Kindle Oasis and mine only works after i go to Kual and use the Showtime Button and then it only works for that page i am reading and then goes after that. Anything else i need to do?

I do not one that model. Please do the following:
1) open Kual => Showtime, select the Showtime button
2) open a book and scroll some pages
2) open Kual => Showtime, select "Copy system log"
3) connect your Kindel to the coputer and open the x:/extensions/showtime/bin/ folder
4) attacht the both *.log filese here

HaPe

[poczynek]

Originally Posted by Hanspeter

I do not one that model. Please do the following:
1) open Kual => Showtime, select the Showtime button
2) open a book and scroll some pages
2) open Kual => Showtime, select "Copy system log"
3) connect your Kindel to the coputer and open the x:/extensions/showtime/bin/ folder
4) attacht the both *.log filese here

HaPe

Hi Hanspeter, ok so it seems to stop working i think when it changes time and moves a minute? Here are the two log files:

Message logs attached. Thank you.

[BiliBug]

Good stuff.

Would it be possible to add an option to display 12 (am/pm) instead of 24 hour/military time?

[Hanspeter]

Originally Posted by poczynek

Hi Hanspeter, ok so it seems to stop working i think when it changes time and moves a minute? Here are the two log files:

Message logs attached. Thank you.

Your device was not detected. I updated the code in the new version in the first post. Hope it works now.

Be sure to quit the background process from the menu before starting a new on. If it is still not working I need your logs again.

HaPe

[Hanspeter]

Originally Posted by BiliBug

Good stuff.

Would it be possible to add an option to display 12 (am/pm) instead of 24 hour/military time?

Hm, not as simple as it sounds without showing the seconds.
If someone knows how to tell the "date" command to output the time in local format 12/24 without seconds please give me a hint.

HaPe

[knc1]

Format character: %I hour (01..12)
Hint:
man date
In either a full Linux install or in a web search engine.

[poczynek]

Originally Posted by Hanspeter

Your device was not detected. I updated the code in the new version in the first post. Hope it works now.

Be sure to quit the background process from the menu before starting a new on. If it is still not working I need your logs again.

HaPe

Thanks so much - trying now.

[Hanspeter]

Originally Posted by knc1

Format character: %I hour (01..12)
Hint:
man date
In either a full Linux install or in a web search engine.

I read the man page ans in now the formatting commands and use Linux Ubuntu since 10 years as my main system and on servers..
There is a command that give the time in local (24 or 12AM/PM) format. But only with seconds.

The command that I reused to grep the right statements and display the data is highly complex from my point of view. I was not able until now to find a solution how to strip the seconds or use different formats in depends of the local settings

		# This next part says, "Clear Log" then 
		# "Push the new log, line by line, into awk" then 
		# "If a certain line is matched by awk get awk to run eips via the shell"	
		&> /var/log/messages && 2>/dev/null tail -F /var/log/messages | exec parselog | \
		awk '/.*PageTurnAction*./ || /.*JunoExecutionManager*./  {system("eips ${POS} ${ROW} `date +%H:%M`-`gasgauge-info -s`")}'
		exit 0

HaPe

[knc1]

Works for me:

 ~ $ date +'%I:%M'
03:37

Which is my local time, not UTC.

[Hanspeter]

Originally Posted by knc1

Works for me:

 ~ $ date +'%I:%M'
03:37

Which is my local time, not UTC.

Yep, it gives me the twelve hour time too. But what I need is a statement that gives on my Kindel (witch is set to 24Hour clock, not AM/PM) the 24 Hour time without seconds and on an other Kindle that is set to 12 AM/PM hour clock the 12 hour time including AM/PM.

From my point of view I have three possibilities:
1) I would need to find a way to tell the date statement to decide this on the fly
2) Add an If to the statement and use a different format string depending on the result
3) Add an If statement and duplicate all versions of the may statement with different format stings.

Version 3 would be the easiest, but I do not like that stile of coding to simply multiply all lines on the same call only with a small different template.

I think date +%X gives me what I need, but I would need some awk or sed command around it to remove the seconds:

~$ date +%X
19:32:13

I would expect that you would get '07:32:13 PM'

Hape

[Hanspeter]

I think I found the right command:

date +%X | sed 's@\(..\):\(..\):\(..\)@\1:\2@'

but now I have the problem to include the third part of hyphens in the big awk command. I searched the net an tried a lot of versions but where not able to solve it.

I need to replace

date +%H:%M

with

date +%X | sed 's@\(..\):\(..\):\(..\)@\1:\2@'

in this awk statment:

&> /var/log/messages && 2>/dev/null tail -f /var/log/messages | \
	        awk '/.*PageAction*./ || /.*acxmgrd*./ || /.*NextPage*./ || /.*Reader*./ {system("eips ${POS} ${ROW} \"`date +%H:%M` `gasgauge-info -s`\"")}'

Ideas welcome ...

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Hanspeter

Yep, it gives me the twelve hour time too. But what I need is a statement that gives on my Kindel (witch is set to 24Hour clock, not AM/PM) the 24 Hour time without seconds and on an other Kindle that is set to 12 AM/PM hour clock the 12 hour time including AM/PM.

From my point of view I have three possibilities:
1) I would need to find a way to tell the date statement to decide this on the fly
2) Add an If to the statement and use a different format string depending on the result
3) Add an If statement and duplicate all versions of the may statement with different format stings.

Version 3 would be the easiest, but I do not like that stile of coding to simply multiply all lines on the same call only with a small different template.

I think date +%X gives me what I need, but I would need some awk or sed command around it to remove the seconds:

~$ date +%X
19:32:13

I would expect that you would get '07:32:13 PM'

Hape

The date command does not work that way, it is reading a 64 bit number of microseconds.
Its output is not effected by how the GUI is displaying the time.

I have never programmed in Awk.

You could do it easy enough in Lua - It includes a system call with output formatting similar to the date command.
But being a full programming language, your not limited to the output format.

Lua is pre-installed on all touchscreen devices.