About Settings
Main Menu
Due to the large number of settings available in the app, each set has its own own submenu.
Calendar Settings
Your device can be configured with a variety of calendars. You can either choose to allow the app to use all of the available calendars on the device, or select a Master Calendar account (enter the calendar email address).
The app will check the calendar account(s) every 10s by default; you can slow this down to reduce the amount of Internet data the app uses.
When an event is used as an alarm, you can choose to allow the app to overwrite the description in the event when the alarm is acknowledged to indicate when the acknowledgment occurred.
The last option allows the user to long press the bottom of the screen (the third event panel) to access the default calendar app on the device.
Application Settings
The user can restrict the number of days and number of events shown on the display.
By default the time of the event is displayed; this can be disabled.
Enabling the alarm notification highlights the next event with a red background during the notification period. If the panel is touched by the user the highlight will be removed, or acknowledged (see Calendar Settings).
During the warning period of the event, the time is removed from the event and replaced with "soon". This can be set to a fixed period of time or set according to the reminder period, identified in the event itself.
The app can be used as a HOME app, i.e. by default the device will try to display the app over any other application or screen.
The user can enable speech such that when the screen is touched, or new events become active, the information displayed is spoken by the device. The voice and language can be selected in Advanced Settings.
<<New>> A set of options to backup and restore the application settings on the device are now available.
Set the backup filename, Save application settings to the filename, load the application settings from the backup file and delete the backup file.
By setting the backup file to "", the load function will display a list of available files.
Display Settings
The display format configures the default screen to display either digital text only, an analogue clock or a photo. The manual layout settings below can be used to configure all three of these modes simultaneously.
Selecting photos will request access to the device external storage.
A variety of display configuration options are available: 12/24 hour, uppercase texts, an option to remove the year from the date or configure the date format specifically.
For all-day events and banner text a marquee mode can be enabled to scroll large messages across the screen.
Text can be limited to a single line or multiple lines.
The default text for no events can be overridden and the soon option on alarms can be turned off.
There is an option to remove the word "tomorrow" from any event text and provide a visual indicator separating today's events from future events.
12:00 can be replaced with midday or midnight as text if needed.
The text on the top line can be left and right justified to force the two texts apart. There is an option to autosize (best attempt) the text in each of the fields.
The app occupies the full device screen by default. This can be overridden to ensure the navigation bar of the device is always displayed. When in full screen mode, the navigation bar or status bar can be revealed by swiping up from the bottom, or down from the top.
The app is designed to run "always on". The user can choose to display a warning should the power supply fail.
<<New>> a new option to override the -s option (only show the event at the time) on a device so it can be used on one device and ignored on another.
Manual Layout Settings (New in V6.0)
When Manual Settings is selected, the user can fully configure the display content and colours of the screen.
A full colour palette including eight fully user definable colours can be created and used.
The background colour of the screen can be set to any of the palette colours.
Each of the following information labels can be removed or positioned and sized using percentage of screen height and width parameters: Current Time, Today's Date, Day of the Week, Time of Day, All Day Events, Next Event, Second Event and Third Event.
The font type, alignment and size of the above labels can be selected along with the colour of the background and text.
The Image (Photo) can be configured with an optional label to display the filename.
The Clock can be displayed on the screen at the same time as a Photo.
These settings can be reset to the initial defaults.
Time of Day Settings
Allows the user to define five periods of the day (Early Morning, Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Night).
For each period, the user can configure the start hour, the text displayed, the brightness of the screen and the amount of information (All, Time only, Events only, Nothing) displayed.
When moving through midnight the Extend the Night Period option keeps the screen displaying the previous day's day and date until the next time period is reached.
Day of the Week Settings
Allows the user to modify the text displayed for any day of the week. For example, change "Monday" to "It is Monday".
Photo Drive Settings
These settings will be accessible once an image has been displayed on the screen (either manually or through the Photos mode in Display Options).
[Requires access to Storage permissions on the device]
Select a local file to be displayed
The user can choose to display the file part-screen (top right), full-screen or anywhere on the screen using the Manual Layout option.
The filename for an image/photo can be displayed. If the filename is touched the image will move to the next picture in the folder where the current image resides. A slideshow option forces this to occur at a user defined Slideshow Rate.
Detailed information on the files used can be found at the bottom of the menu.
Call Settings
Once Skype or Zoom or WhatsApp have been installed on the device, the app can be configured to display a small icon in the bottom right corner of the screen that will launch the selected app when touched.
In Skype only, the app will try to call the identified Skype Contact automatically.
Please Note: When the call finishes the app may not close automatically and therefore the screen will not return to the application until closed manually.
It would appear that the facility to auto answer has been removed on Skype and is no longer available, this is as a result of the OS and app updates.
Advanced Settings
The locale (language and voice) of the app can be changed by entering a supported string. A full list of strings can be found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7973023/what-is-the-list-of-supported-languages-locales-on-android
The user can modify the font sizes, types and screen colours of the default screen if required. These options are now deprecated, replaced with the manual layout feature described above.
The cache size of the app is identified here.
Be careful changing any of these settings as they can require you to reinstall the app.