News
- [ 3 Dec 21]
- Version 5.0 of bnClock is now available. Notable changes are:
- Clock background colors can be created
- A photograph can be used as a clock background
- An album of photographs can be used as clock background slide show
- An option was added to display only the current temperature rather than a full forecast
- [26 Aug 21]
- bnClock version 4.3 was released today. Changes include:
- The OpenWeatherMap api key is shared via iCloud to all devices using bnClock 4.3 or later
- Using iCloud, clock face colors are shared between all devices running bnClock 4.3 or later
- Four built-in alarm sounds were added
- What's new? can now be accessed via About
- A few minor bugs were fixed
- [21 Jul 21]
- Version 4.2 of bnClock, released today, supports custom clock face colors.
- [ 1 Jul 21]
- Just released, the weather display is back in bnClock version 4.1.
- The forecast is now provided by
Note that the weather updates twice per day (compared to 3 or 4 for the previous service). There are instructions available to change this to updating every 10 minutes.
- A What's New? feature was also added. It will appear once for each new version of bnClock. What's New? can also be view from Help.
- [10 Jun 21]
- Yahoo! has retired their free weather API and has no plans for a replacement. As a result bnClock cannot display the weather. It also disables the sunset to sunrise dimming of the clock. We are searching for a replacement, but it make take some time to find a free replacement. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Version 4.0.3, released today, temporarily disables the weather display and explains the reason.
- [ 8 Feb 21]
- bnClock 4.0 was released today. Changes include
- Multiple alarms; each alarm has a wakeup sound and snooze time
- Additional built-in alarm sounds and clock face colors
- Expanded help
- Bug fixes, including some issues related to dimming the clock between dusk and dawn
- [ 8 Dec 20]
- Version 3.3 was released today. A new clock face, a seven segment display, was added. A few layout glitches were also fixed.
- [ 4 Oct 20]
- bnClock 3.2 was released today. Changes include:
- New alternate seconds indicators in addition to blinking the colon — no indicator, a line or a circle indicator
- Snooze touch has priority now resets the alarm as soon as a long press has exceeded 2.5 seconds rather than making you guess when 2.5 seconds has elapsed
- Some minor layout issues were corrected
- [ 4 Sep 20]
- Version 3.1 of bnClock was released today. This version adds a new Snooze touch has priority mode. When enabled and the alarm is playing, any touch on the screen is interpreted as a snooze request. Use a long press of more that 2.5 seconds to reset the alarm for tomorrow.
- [10 Aug 20]
- bnClock 3.0.1 was released today. This is a bug fix release.
- [29 Mar 20]
- bnClock 3.0 was released today. New features include:
- An new clock display format: 5x7 LED matrix
- Additional color choices for your clock: blue, green, red, violet, and yellow
- [28 Jan 20]
- bnClock 2.5.2 was released today. Bug fixes include:
- sometimes the alarm did not reset to the next day
- in some cases, the low temperature forecast did not display correctly
- [13 Aug 19]
- bnClock 2.5.1 is a bug fix release. Fixes include:
- a bug that could in rare cases cause a crash
- a bug that caused the "Always use system brightness" in the Appearance Settings to not work correctly
- [24 Mar 19]
- bnClock 2.5 was released today.
- In the appearance settings, the clock style choice is now a miniature version of the clock rather than text.
- Bug fixes
- [16 Feb 19]
- bnClock 2.4.1 was released. Changes include:
- The weather display is once again working
- Minor bug fixes
- [22 Oct 18]
- bnClock 2.4 was released. Changes include:
- By request, a Cancel was added to all of the preferences
- Also by request, additional reminders of the device not being plugged in were added