Display current date and time inside of theme.

Lolonois

The batocera "fork" of emulationstation does implement a display time feature. It is hardwired to be displayed in the lower right corner if enabled.

However, I am not aware of previous pro/cons discussions of implementing it in the retropie's emulationstation.

celly

@pythonli the pi doesn’t have a RTC unless you add one anyway, makes me wonder though if implementing that could happen eventually.

IanDaemon

An RTC (real time clock) would require a persistent Internet connection on the Pi which doesn't work with many setups.

mitu

@iandaemon said in Display current date and time inside of theme.:

An RTC (real time clock) would require a persistent Internet connection

Not really, just like a PC, you can add a dedicated RTC to the GPIO header, one like this.

IanDaemon

@mitu You're right. If you add an RTC to your Pi you could get away without a persistent Internet connection. I guess my post was confusing. (Without an RTC would require an Internet connection each time the Pi is turned on.) I apologize for confusing the issue.

celly

@iandaemon I’m guessing getting it to work within EmulationStation would be the hardest part.

h2805270

Why don't you just use the "X GAMES AVAILABLE" text instead (as a workaround if you want to make it for the ES so badly)?

I think Pegasus is currently the only theme where the date can be shown (as evidenced in SwitchOS):

If you want to make a 2nd edition for Pegasus, that would also be cool.

h2805270

I just found out the Batocera fork of EmulationStation has a built-in clock (bottom-right):

Knock yourself out:

https://github.com/batocera-linux/batocera-emulationstation

Lolonois

@h2805270 welcome to this thread. FWIW I noted this 10+ days before.

Nice display, thanks anyway.

h2805270

@iandaemon
I just found out someone posted an Alimentation Schematic/PCIB plan for it online for a USB version of it, but nobody bothered to make one yet for some reason:

https://easyeda.com/rodyne/USB_RTC-dfce249ec7af4d7380d69c51a7e2cfec