/acum

Modular rolling news screensaver built around Electron

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Acum - Modular rolling news screensaver built around Electron

Acum (Romanian for Now) is a screensaver-like app built around Electron which displays news, consisting of various text and/or image macros, in a rolling manner akin to news channel breakfillers.

It is modular and sports for now 7 modules:

  • agerpres - Romanian news headlines via AGERPRES
  • bitcoin - Bitcoin exchange rate
  • brasovLive - live video from the Romanian city of Brașov (via 3rd party)
  • iasiLive - live video from 3 different places the Romanian city of Iași (via 3rd party)
  • currentTime - current date and time
  • iss - live video from International Space Station (via NASA)
  • meteo_anm - live weather info for Romania from ANM

Screen capture

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Installation

npm install should be enough.

Licence

Public domain, no warranties.