Turn your Ubuntu Touch device into a retro clock with a large collection of cold war era display technologies.
The images and an installable click file will be released once there is an official way of getting a click reviewed that does not require installing a program to then join a social group to ask for review.
The code in this repository is under the Simplified BSD license
All of the custom artwork will be in a separate repository under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license
The code is based on Night Clock by Michal Predotka.
All reference photos used to make the displays are used under fair use and are highly transformed from the originals. I have spent countless hours dissecting the images into individual parts, scaling, tweaking the colors and deforming them to produce perfectly aligned configurable images. Many of the displays are based on a single image as they are rare or even one of one. None of the reference pictures are used in their original form.
Reference photos were found on these wonderful collectors sites and forums:
- SwissNixie
- DecadeCounter
- IndustrialAlchemy
- TubeClockDB
- TubeTester
- Spark-Tube
- Jogis-Roehrenbude
- Nixies.us
- TubeTime
If you think I have used your reference photos during the creation of my work, and I have not included your site, please open an issue and let me know, so I can add it. Some reference photos were found on social media posts without reference to their origin.
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Possible future changes
- Make analog clock and date/alarms display side by side in landscape.
- Backgrounds and overlays to complete the look of real world clocks.
- Slot machine and shuffle transitions like used on real nixie clocks.
- Display date in numerical format using smaller versions of the display chosen.
- Hue/Saturation wheel or panel instead of Hue and Saturation sliders for custom colors.
- Use as lock screen.
- Use on/as wallpaper.
- Timer and stopwatch mode.
- Option to force landscape mode while the phone is in portrait. (Does not look to be possible with a setting, only in the .desktop file)
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It was tested on two devices during development
- Oneplus 6T ( 64bit )
- Oneplus One ( 32bit )
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The program could be optimized and cleaned up, but I have very little experience with declarative or object-oriented programming, and before this program I had never used Qml, QT or Java. I have left all redundant code and even added to it.
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The presets are saved in a C type array and the colors are all saved in individual variables with get and set functions, since I did not know how to do it in QML and the colors could not be used after being re-saved in the C type array.
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The program is much larger than Night-Clock due to the 432 custom png images included. I have tried to keep it as small as possible by reducing the png resolution without sacrificing quality on a phone.
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All of the displays below are based on real world display technology from the cold war era, except the colon tubes which are fictional and generally do not exist in the real world.
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Most of the L.E.D. displays are from the very early days of L.E.Ds and are not the most useful, but none the less interesting.
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The decade counter clocks are for the tube clock lovers among you, not because they are good clocks.
There are 8 fully customizable presets that can have all their parameters changed individually, except the time/date formats and fullscreen which are global.
- Select Display type
- Adjust Hue of "Tube Clocks"
- Set Background Color (HSV or RGB)
- Set Foreground Color of Text, Analog Clocks and L.E.D. displays (HSV or RGB)
- Custom Preset names
- HSV or RGB color selection
- Show Seconds
- Blink colons (with show seconds)
- Show Date
- Show Alarms
- ScreenSaver Mode (Moves digital clock every minute)
- Hide Oscilloscope background to show just the face and hands
- Time Format
- 12hr with leading zero
- 12hr without leading zero
- 24hr with leading zero
- 24hr without leading zero
- Date Format
- 9 standard formats
- Fullscreen or Windowed
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Tube Clocks
- 10 types of Nixie tubes and Neon panel displays. (Adjustable Hue)
- 1 type of Electroluminescent segmented cyrillic font display panel. (Adjustable Hue)
- 3 types of Vacuum Fluorescent segmented displays. (Adjustable Hue)
- 1 type of Cathode Ray Tube display. (+1 variation) (Adjustable Hue)
- 1 type of Thyratron segmented display. (Adjustable Hue)
- 2 types of Decade counters. (+1 variation) (Adjustable Hue)
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L.E.D. & Flip Clocks
- 5 types of segmented and dot matrix L.E.D. displays. (Color matches Text color)
- 2 colors of Flip clock.
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Analog Clocks
- 2 types of Vacuum Fluorescent Analog clocks. (Color matches Text color)
- 5 types of Oscilloscope clock faces. (Color matches Text color)
- 5 types of clocks. (same faces as oscilloscope) (Color matches Text color)
All pictures show the colors of the actual real life displays.
The colors are customizable in the settings menu.
.png "Vertical orientation nixie tube clock without seconds displayed")
Install Clickable
Download or clone the Retro-Clock repo
See the #Release section for information on the release of the images.
Download the img
folder and place it in the root of Retro-Clock along side the qml and po folders.
Open a terminal at the root of Retro-Clock and run clickable or clickable desktop or clickable build
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