bnClock Help
Help: Appearance Settings
You can adjust the appearance of bnClock. The Appearance Settings screen is show below. Exit and save changes at any time by swiping right or left†, or tapping the Done button.
bnClock Appearance settings
Clock display
bnClock has five ways to display the clock: two 7-segment options, Nixie, 5x7 dot matrix, and text.
Clock style selection
Choosing a clock color
You can choose the color your clock digits. The colors were selected to mimic some traditional clock radio colors. Simply tap on the color of your choice. Scroll horizontally to see all of the choices.
Choosing a clock digit color
Clock brightness
The clock display may be too bright at night for you. bnClock provides some options for controlling the display brightness.
Always use the system defined brightness. Depending upon how you have configured your device, your display may automatically dim when the ambient light decreases.
Brightness setting
Turn off Always use the system defined brightness to use the bnClock brightness whenever bnClock is displayed.
Turn on Use brightness 30 minutes before sunset to 30 minutes after sunrise to use the bnClock brightness from just before sunset to just after sunrise. Otherwise the system brightness will be used.
Brightness setting
If you have turned off Always use the system defined brightness, you can also adjust the brightness when viewing the clock by dragging up and down on the clock. If you have enabled Use brightness 30 minutes... display brightness will return to the system defined brightness after a few seconds if the time is not between sunset and sunrise.
bnClock will restore your device's brightness to the system setting when you switch to another app.
Show weather
bnClock will display a weather forecast for your current, or a selected, location. This display can be disabled if desired. Use the Weather Settings to set a location for the weather forecast.
Enabling or disabling the weather display
Show date
When enabled, the day of the week, date, month and year are displayed below the clock.
Show seconds
Normally bnClock displays seconds with the time. Some clocks do not have a seconds display and this setting causes bnClock to remove the seconds from the display. This has a side effect of making the digits larger.
When seconds are hidden, the default is to blink the colon between the hours and minutes. There are other options available:
- No indicator
- The clock shows no indication that seconds are changing
- Blink colon
- The default, which blinks the colon every second
- Line indicator
- Show a line below the hours and minutes that indicates seconds passing.
Line indicator for seconds
- Circle indicator
- Display a small circle which indicates how many seconds have passed in the minute.
Circle indicator for seconds
Snooze touch has priority
By default, bnClock accepts a tap gesture to indicate a snooze request. And by default, a swipe or pan gesture is used to request reseting the alarm for tomorrow. For some, this may be to fine a distinction when trying to wake up.
By enabling Snooze touch has priority any touch on the screen will request a snooze. To reset the alarm for tomorrow, tap and hold for 2.5 seconds or longer.
Enable/disable Snooze touch has priority
Not plugged in warning
You can turn off the warning that occurs when you start using bnClock and your device is not plugged in. However, this is not recommended because bnClock prevents your device from turning itself off while it is running. If you device is not plugged it, your battery could completely run down while you are sleeping.
Turning off the not plugged in warning