2025-05-17 (Sa) QuarterRoundWS2812BArray Programming finished

The last critical task I wanted to tackle was programming the two outermost rings. I wanted the rings to act as two circles. I created three functions. The first function would clear the rings. The second and third accepted a variable to set a ring to that color. I tested the three by assigning them to act periodically. I activated the clearing function every few seconds, and the rest of the time, I turned one ring or the other to pseudo-random colors. There was some minor debugging, and they worked. I programmed the four existing modes to exhibit different bezel behavior. I renamed them "Bezel," which made more sense than "Mode." The four options were no bezel activity, flash every hour, flash every minute, and toggle the rings every second, which I captured in the picture below.

I cleaned up old code that I had stopped using and some that exceeded FastLED's parameters. I revised the webpage to show more accurate buttons and added one to adjust the time zone. I made the bezel and time zone variables non-volatile, so cutting the power does not erase them.

Bezel oscillates at the same speed as a grandmother clock

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