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clock.bh studio · Seeed reTerminal E1001

Make the clock yours.

Tell it where it is, pick its faces, put your own photos on it, choose how the seconds move, what the battery shows and how it chimes — then install it all over USB in one go. Your settings and your photos go from this page down the cable to the clock, and nowhere else.

Its Wi-Fi, your city, dark or light faces — then install it over USB, in about a minute. Your settings go from this page down the cable to the clock, and nowhere else.

Set it up here, then install it over USB in one go. Your settings go from this page down the cable to the clock, and nowhere else.

How do you want to set it up?

You can switch at any time, at the top of the page; nothing you have entered is lost.

Wi-Fi, city, dark or light faces. Everything else stays as the clock has it.

Every setting, in ten steps, then install.

01

Connect the clock

Plug the reTerminal E1001 into this computer with a USB-C cable and press Connect. The page reads what is on the clock; nothing is written until you choose to install.

While it is connected the clock pauses; Disconnect, or the end of an install, restarts it.

Already set up? Find my clock asks it for its address on your network, and changes nothing.

02

Wi-Fi and name

The network the clock joins. It goes online for a few seconds now and then, to fetch the next hours of its face and check the time.

A second network optional — another place, or a phone's hotspot

No Wi-Fi yet? Leave it empty: the clock opens its own hotspot, clockbh-XXXX, with a setup page at http://192.168.4.1.

On its setup card, and its address on your network: clockbh.local

03

Your city

Where the clock stands sets its time, and the Sun, Moon and prayer times its faces show.

Where the clock is
Manama Bahrain المنامة، البحرين
--:-- UTC+3

Its local time (summer time too) and the faces' Sun, Moon, sky and prayer times follow this place. The faces drawn for Bahrain alone — its map, its flights, the Taqweem Al-Hadi calendar — stay off the keys elsewhere.

04

Dark or light

Each face is a dark page or white paper, and a few are both: white by day, black after sunset. The keys go round every face, or only the kind that suits the room.

KEY1 and KEY2 go round them. To pick the faces one by one, .

KEY1 and KEY2 go round them. The next step picks them one by one; those of the other kind rest there, still ticked.

05

Faces

Tick the faces the keys go round — KEY1 next, KEY2 previous — and choose the one it starts on. The pictures are the faces as they are right now.

Loading the faces…

Changing face by itself
06

Photos

Up to fifteen of your own pictures become a face of the clock: its hands over your photo, in the panel's four greys. Frame each one, set its tones, write a line on it in any language, and put the dial where it sits best — what you see here is what the clock draws.

or drop them here · or paste one 0 of 15

    On the clock
    In

    On the Photos face, KEY0 brings the next photo at any time. The face is on the keys like the others (Faces, the step before).

    Your photos never leave this computer: they are prepared in this page and go down the USB cable to the clock when you install — nothing is uploaded, and nothing is kept here after you close the page.

    07

    Motion and picture

    How often the second hand moves. A digital face steps its seconds digits the same way; Minute means no second hand at all — the face changes once a minute, the quietest and longest-lasting.

    On USB power, the seconds move every
    On battery, every

    Resting
    Picture
    Fetching the face

    Each Wi-Fi visit brings this many minutes of the face, drawn ahead on clock.bh. Longer means fewer visits and a longer battery, but live data (weather, flights) gets older before the next visit. Faces with live data ask for less by themselves.

    08

    Battery

    The gauge sits below the hub, where a watch shows its power reserve (on some faces, in a clear spot of the page). Drawn here in the panel's own pixels. Beside it, firmware 1.3.0 and later draw a small Wi-Fi mark. From 1.3.2 it is the Wi-Fi logo while the clock is on Wi-Fi and reaching clock.bh, and otherwise how long since it last was, like 25m ago or 2h ago (offline before its first connection). On USB power with the web page on (the default) you see the logo whenever the Wi-Fi works: a lost Wi-Fi shows at the next minute, and the logo comes back a minute or two after the connection does (the clock asks its time server, clock.bh unless you set another, every 5 minutes; on a network that blocks that, at the next check-in). On battery, or with the web page set to on request, the radio sleeps between check-ins, so you mostly see the time since it last connected (with the web page always on, the radio stays on and so does the logo).

    The gauge
    The small line under it

    The room's temperature and humidity come from the clock's own sensor (an SHT40 inside); the preview shows an example.

    Temperature in
    mAh

    The E1001's own cell is 2000 mAh.

    How long a full charge lasts

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    This is the clock's own estimate model, worked out the same way it does: what each tick, redraw and Wi-Fi visit costs, hour by hour through its day. The costs start as estimates for this board; on battery the clock compares them with its battery's real fall and learns as it goes, so the number under its gauge gets truer with time.

    09

    Sound

    The clock has a small buzzer. Press ▶ to hear it here — the same square wave, pitch and pattern.

    On the hour

    The Casio chime is measured from a real F-91W: two ⅛-second beeps, ⅛ second apart.

    Pitch

    8192 Hz is the F-91W's real pitch — near the top of what some ears and laptop speakers manage.

    Volume
    Also
    10

    Access and updates

    The clock has a web page of its own: its status, these settings, and new firmware over Wi-Fi.

    Its web page is open

    With no Wi-Fi it opens its own hotspot for the page instead.

    Made up here for you. Write it down — this page does not keep it.

    New versions of the firmware
    Advanced time server, face server, update channel

    11

    Review and install

    What goes onto the clock, in one go, checked byte for byte (MD5) as it is written.

    Firmware…
    The clocknot connected

    Keep a copy

    This page remembers your choices in this browser — never the passwords.

    12

    Done

    Find my clock

    With the cable in, the page asks the clock for its address on your network — it is not restarted, and nothing is written.

    The clock's diary 
    
                
    
            
    

            
            
    
                
                
                
                
            
    
        
    
    
    

    
    
    
        
    
            
    
                
    Rather not build it yourself? · لا تريد تركيبها بنفسك؟
    
                
    Get the clock when it's ready
    
                
    أخبرني عندما تصبح الساعة جاهزة
    
                
    A reTerminal E1001 with clock.bh's faces on it, set up and ready to switch on. Leave your email and we write once, when it can be ordered. No payment now.
    
                
    ساعة reTerminal E1001 بوجوه clock.bh، مُعدّة وجاهزة للتشغيل. اترك بريدك الإلكتروني ونراسلك مرة واحدة عندما يمكن طلبها. لا دفع الآن.
    
            
    
            
    
                
    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                
    
                
                
    
                    
                    
    
                
    
                
    One email when it can be ordered, nothing else. Your address stays on this server.رسالة واحدة عندما يمكن طلبها، ولا شيء غير ذلك. يبقى بريدك على هذا الخادم.