alarm_watch

A Luanti client-side mod implementing a vintage alarm watch mutated into a smartwatch.

Examples of Head-Up Display, showing watch, GPS, altimeter and compass instruments, with backlit on the second screenshot:

Features

• Watch
  • displays the time in 12 or 24h format
• Programmable alarm
  • with vintage ring sound and custom message
• Chronometer
  • in game time or real world time
• Light sensor
  • with message and crowing rooster sound at sunrise (05:45)
  • with message and hooting owl sound at sunset (19:30)
• GPS
  • displays location in geographical (latitude/longitude) or Cartesian coordinates (x/z), though the geographical system has been losing momentum since we discovered that the world is flat and not spherical!
• Altimeter
  • y-coordinate (for ores and jewels mining)
• Compass
  • with cardinal direction faced and angle in degrees
• Discreet head-up display in the lower-left corner of the screen
  • with ability to disable watch, GPS, altimeter and/or compass (only keep what you really need)
  • and backlit lighting (for dark areas)
• Fully configurable
  • with Luanti User Interface
  • or through local chat commands

Installation

1. Manually download the latest release of this mod (as client-side mods download is not handled yet through Luanti's User Interface)

2. Follow general instructions on client-side mods installation:

   • Put the following line in luanti/minetest.conf to enable client-side mods (if not already done):

     enable_client_modding = true
     

   • Unpack the mod archive in luanti/clientmods

   • Rename the mod directory to luanti/clientmods/alarm_watch

   • Put the following line in luanti/clientmods/mods.conf:

     load_mod_alarm_watch = true
     

3. Copy the luanti/clientmods/alarm_watch/sounds folder into luanti

Note: If you haven't upgraded yet to luanti 5.10.0 or newer, your luanti directory will be called minetest...

Configuration

• Before launching a game, configure the mod options through Luanti's User Interface:

• While playing, use the following commands for live (but non-persistent) configuration:

  • For enabling or disabling instruments (only specify one):

    .alarm_use watch|light_sensor|gps|altimeter|compass
    

  • For flipping the instruments configuration (only specify one):

    .alarm_mode watch|gps|chrono
    

Usage

For setting the alarm at a given hour:minute and with a specified message (which may be a whole sentence) do:

.alarm_set H:M TEXT

For example:

.alarm_set 17:30 Time to go home before nightfall!

For disabling the previously setted alarm, use one of the following commands:

.alarm_unset
.alarm_reset

To start or stop the chronometer (stopwatch) do:

.alarm_chrono

To enable/disable the backlit lighting do:

.alarm_light

To obtain in game command help do:

.help

or one among:

.help alarm_use
.help alarm_mode
.help alarm_set
.help alarm_unset
.help alarm_reset
.help alarm_chrono
.help alarm_light

Caveats

There are still a few issues with this mod:

• Despite providing translations, they are unused (I believe client-side mods don't use translations at all),
• The chronometer results will be incorrect if players go to bed for sleeping, or if time is changed by an admin,
• local chat commands are uselessly echoed by the game.

Credits

Debugging

• Compass debugging by Blockhead

Music credits

I have bundled these "Free for use" sounds from Pixabay:

• alarm beep electronic by reecord2 of freesound_community
• Rooster by Stefan_Grace
• Owlhooting left to right by TanwerAman

Possible future directions

The mod is already pretty complete as-is, but drilling down the "smartwatch" concept, there are lots of other possible evolutions:

• Configuration:
  • configurable colors
• GPS improvement:
  • points or areas of interest management (with another HUD)
  • guidance to those waypoints (on this mod's HUD)
• New pedometer instrument for counting steps and elevation per day
• More stats...

Other possible things that would probably better be kept separated from this mod:

• Music player to be used with music records you carry (with another HUD)
• Death tracker:
  • I have another (not yet published) client-side mod for tracking death locations (that could be integrated with the waypoint system), but that I want to keep separated as it's working with a server-side complementary mod.

Go to Discussions if you want to suggest other things...