The studio wall clock

Packet Studio Clock

Clock is a wall clock and status screen for the studio, on any screen from a TV to a small Raspberry Pi panel. It follows Packet Studio over the network and only reads from it.

A broadcast clock

On the studio's own time: the seconds go round a ring of dots, with the date, and the time in words underneath ("twenty minutes to one").

ON AIR and MIC LIVE

Lights the whole room can read, so everyone knows the state of the studio at a glance.

Your station

Your station's name and logo, with an optional line of text such as the studio phone number.

Set up from your phone

Log in to the clock's web page with a code shown on the screen. Settings sit in tabs with one Save, changed items are marked, and Undo all steps back. The manager address hides after two minutes.

Silence warning

A big red pulsing band at the bottom of the screen: "On air and silent for 0:14". It comes from the studio's own silence alarm, so it needs a Packet Studio that sends silence warnings.

Your own tallies

Add up to four of your own, such as DOOR or FIRE, each with its text, one of 24 colours, and solid, pulsing or flashing. On a Raspberry Pi, a switch or relay contact on a GPIO pin can light one.

Settings on the card

On a Raspberry Pi, put a packetstudio-clock.txt file on the card's boot drive to set the station name, studio, time zone and reports level before the first start.

Finds your studio

Clocks look for studios on the network by themselves. Pick one from the list, with no address to type.

Meters

Left and right meters, peak or VU, with the amber and red levels set to your own.

Light, dark or follow the sun

A light theme, or light by day and dark at night. It can also dim at night.

Weather line

An optional line with your place, an icon and the conditions, in °C or °F. A long line wraps onto two.

Logo size

Choose how large your station logo appears.

Raspberry Pi ready

Flash the card image and plug it in. With no network, it starts its own set-up Wi-Fi and shows a QR code to scan. A network change is undone after two minutes unless you confirm it.

Or any PC

It also runs on a PC with a browser. GPIO inputs and network set-up are for the Raspberry Pi only.

Install reports

The clock sends a short install report, at the level you choose at first set-up or later: None, Essential or Full. It also tells the studio its name and version, so the studio can list it.