Feature request - display remaining time on DGT clock

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The DGT board provides the feature to display the remaining time on a connected DGT clock. For example, the Acid Ape Chess App or Lucas Chess make use of this feature.

When playing on chess.com, a connected DGT clock does not show the remaining time. It would be of great value if this feature would also be supported for playing on chess.com.

Hyper-Dragon

I'm not sure that it is possible with the current implementation.

The site is using the DGT Live Chess software which is really meant for broadcasting games. I could be wrong, but I can't find a way to set the clocks programatically using this (as opposed to the Rabbit Plugin).

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Thanks for your interest in this topic. The DGT LiveChess allows chess.com (and other apps) to speak with the board. I am just declaring my interest here to have the game time on the clock. As DGT creates these products and sending messages to the clocks is possible (as seen with Acid Ape Chess) this is possible. DGT LiveChess allows to broadcast games and also to speak with the board. These are just different uses.

I understand this forum here as to speak experiences with the board, like nice to have and need to have. Such a feature is nice to have. I welcome other users opinions for that will give DGT some idea of what the users would like.

And well, before I forget. I am asking to display the clock time on a digital device, oops, that is not a lot. A long text for such a simple feature. This is not rocket science.

Another idea a user had was to provide a mobile app, showing the clock. That would also be great, but much more complicated.

Chiller80

It is a Must to be able to see the clock times and the last move in capital letters  on the dgt 3000 clock. If not then you have to look at the computer screen all the time and then the OTB feeling goes out the window. Also it should be possible to have the speech set to only anounce the opponents moves. and if you are uncertain if the speech said Ne3 or Nd3 then you can take a quick peek at the clock display. this is my opinion thank you and merry christmas.

Hyper-Dragon

Not a DGT 3000 but functionally similar...

It is still a work in progress but for anyone who wants to give it a go the project is here: https://hyper-dragon.github.io/DgtAngel/

As well as the game clocks displayed on a phone the screen will also show the difference between chess.com and the physical board so you know you are always in sync.

BaronVonChickenpants
Hyper-Dragon wrote:

Not a DGT 3000 but functionally similar...

 

It is still a work in progress but for anyone who wants to give it a go the project is here: https://hyper-dragon.github.io/DgtAngel/

As well as the game clocks displayed on a phone the screen will also show the difference between chess.com and the physical board so you know you are always in sync.

 

That looks very useful, I'll give it a try!

 

Hyper-Dragon
BaronVonChickenpants wrote:

That looks very useful, I'll give it a try!

 

How did you get on?

BaronVonChickenpants
Hyper-Dragon wrote:
BaronVonChickenpants wrote:

That looks very useful, I'll give it a try!

 

How did you get on?

This is still on my to-do list , thanks for the reminder

BaronVonChickenpants
Hyper-Dragon wrote:
BaronVonChickenpants wrote:

That looks very useful, I'll give it a try!

 

How did you get on?

This works pretty well! I've raised a couple of items on the issue tracker

Hyper-Dragon

'This works pretty well!'  The exclamation mark makes you sound surprised wink.png.,

I've added comments over on git hub and should be able to get to them/make another release later this week. 

Not sure what to do with it next though.  Will the new Pegasus board mean we get in-app support for regular DGT boards as well?  If so then it probably isn't needed.  The other question is when does the 'live' board get switched off?  There is plugin code mostly written for the 'play' board already but I was holding off until the switch to release it in case of any in-page HTML changes (which they may have to make if they want the existing voice plugin to work in focus mode).

BaronVonChickenpants

I was more surprised by how polished it was, I was expecting a great deal of rough edges for a personal project. It looks great and works great.

 

How are you generating the voices? I sometimes find computer generated voices hard to pick out the different between e, g and d when announcing file names 

Hyper-Dragon

That's very kind of you happy.png

Erm, not sure were the last 16 days went (that time of year I guess) but for the untimely answer...

I also find computer generated voices hard to pick out.  I blame the invention of the Walkman and many subsequent years of headphone use.

The speech is pre-generated from scripts (here) using default Microsoft 'Neural' voices.  You can have a play with them here.  I have a separate custom system tray app that will read the clipboard and optionaly save the output as a wav.  The wav's have a little processing with ffmpeg to trim any silence and are then bundled up into the exe.

Hyper-Dragon

@BaronVonChickenpants Finally got the fixes (+ a bunch of other stuff done).  It is up on the MS Store although you may need to uninstall the previous version to get windows to pick up the change.  Link here.