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Tides & Surf running on a 32×32 LED panel
32×32 · Livereal render
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Tides & Surf

Tide curve with a now marker and next high/low, plus wave height, period and direction.

At a glance

OutputLiveRendered by the engine and streamed over Bluetooth as its data changes (about 5–9 frames a second).
Settings7every one editable live in the studio, or by an agent with update_app_settings
Sourcetides.pysrc/deskdot/apps/tides.py

Settings

Settings
SettingTypeDefaultOptions / range
General
LayoutlayoutchoiceTide curve
Tide curveSurfBoth (alternate)
Hours before now on the curvehours_backwhole number60 – 12
Hours after now on the curvehours_aheadwhole number186 – 36
Seconds per page (both)page_secondswhole number83 – 60
24-hour timeshour24on/offOnon / off
Coast
Coast latitudecoast_lat0/0 = your location.number0.0-90 – 90
Coast longitudecoast_lonnumber0.0-180 – 180

Try it

render a frame to PNG (no panel needed)
$ uv run deskdot preview tides --settings '{"layout":"surf"}' --out tides.png
show it on your panel (engine running)
$ curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8765/api/apps/tides/activate

Or ask your agent: “Show Tides & Surf on my panel”. It calls show_app with "tides". New here? Set up DeskDot first.

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