Features

A few of mauveine’s key features are:

  • Analogue or digital clock
  • Unlimited alarms (when used with a sound device connected to a speaker)
  • Full support for daylight saving time and timezones
  • Available in multiple (possibly poorly translated) languages (English, French, German, Polish)
  • Extremely configurable
    • clock design, fonts, colours, and the type and position of displayed info are all configurable from within mauveine
    • Colours can be sent by reference to the same value as other colours such as a palette or the colour of a different user interface element
    • Comes with a number of pre-built themes and support for custom theme creation
  • Configure networking from within the application
  • Designed with security in mind
    • runs from its own user account which only has the privileges it needs to provide the software functions
    • sensitive operations are protected by a PIN
    • privileged account name and password are randomised by default
  • Complexity of configuration can be toggled to suit the user
  • Supports a wide variety of Raspberry Pi hardware (and will also run under X11 or Wayland (using Wayland’s X11 emulation) on Linux or WSL)
  • Installable as a Debian package with support for automatic updates
  • Includes a 3d printable SCAD model for a case that can be adapted to your own projects
  • No web analytics, subscriptions, smart assistants, AI, phoning home or trying to sell you anything - it’s your device