Originally posted by Gogs
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Mine does the following:
- Continuously rotating date, time, outside temperature, and a message-of-the-day (more on that in a minute)
- Breaking news when it happens (text of the news from CNN)
- Caller ID on any incoming calls (name and number displayed on the sign)
- Periodic reminders of either of the garage door being open
- Hourly display of the CNN headlines
- Twice daily display of the weather forecast (morning for the current day, evening for the following day)
- For any upcoming important dates in the next seven days (birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, etc.), it displays throughout the day what the event is and how many days away.
- If there are no upcoming important dates, the Word-of-the-day from Yahoo is displayed, along with its definition.
Most of the things I listed that my sign does are performed by the scripts I included in the "Extras" with Snevl_bb, including instructions. I don't think I put the word-of-the-day in there, and I don't remember if I included the weather forecast stuff (it uses Blades weather.com plug-in).
I've thought of rotating other stuff periodically. For someone using Jon00's email, I would guess it would be easy to display how many pending emails you have to read. I've also thought that it would be easy to trigger events via a stick-a-switch to display useful stuff out of device text that Homeseer already tracks. This could be things like new NetFlix releases, status of alarm systems, etc.
Steve
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