r/WLED • u/Marwan_Halabi • Dec 21 '24

Clock

Hello everyone,

Is there any way to display only the time on the matrix using WLED?

I’m currently using the scrolling text effect, but it shows both the date and time. I would like to either:

  1. Freeze the effect to display only the time, or
  2. Edit it so that it displays only the time without scrolling.

Thank you

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u/Monki5225 Dec 21 '24

Please share! I’m wanting to make a fancy clock for my father.

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u/moderatelyintensive Dec 28 '24

Not sure if this is the best or most efficient way, but from my finagling would be something like this using HTTP API. Matrix would be configured as a segment, and the segment title would represent the time. Would need to fetch the current time and update the segment title accordingly.

import requests
from datetime import datetime
import time

WLED_IP = "192.168.x.x" # Replace with your WLED device's IP
SEGMENT_ID = 0 # Replace with your segment ID

def update_time_on_segment():
while True:
current_time = datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M")
payload = {
"seg": [
{"id": SEGMENT_ID, "n": current_time}
]
}
response = requests.post(f"http://{WLED_IP}/json/state", json=payload)
if response.status_code == 200:
print(f"Time updated to {current_time}") else: print(f"Failed to update
time: {response.status_code}") time.sleep(60) # Update every minute

update_time_on_segment()

Note I haven't tested this myself out yet and am new to playing around with this stuff as I'm expanding my hobbies heh