@shiranissosexy it’s not even base 10. But my guess is an hour or more. 9 seconds times 6 digits, times 88 if the tens digit is base 7 is roughly 80 minutes. But it could change how it counts at any time.
@housepage916 the internal clock variable for the display appears to be ticking at normal time; ‘strftime: “111:03”’
So it was probably a 120 min deal, echoing what @stolicat derived
@placecm@reedmo It’s 10 seconds per second, then it goes down 5 seconds in 10 seconds. So it’s a minute per ten seconds? In any case, I’m going to sleep.
@sstaver the Venn diagram of cheap video doorbell and homekit video doorbell looks a lot like an elementary school drawing of boobs. The two circles don’t touch in most examples.
@sstaver I have this doorbell. I just added a SD card and have video saved locally to the camera. It gets the job done. Wish the audio was better, but for the price can’t complain.
This is like old times, the display bug in the timer when it exceeds 99m 59s. I think I remember that it shifts everything and drops the lowest digit, so 11:95 is really 119m 5x sec. That lowest number is changing every 10 seconds. It’s a 2 hour deal. It should fix itself when gets below 100 minutes.
I figured it out from one line of code in the javascript on the page:
$countdown.countdown(new Date(‘Fri Apr 01 2022 08:40:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)’))
Specs
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
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Warranty
1-Year Limited Warranty
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Apr 11 - Friday, Apr 15
11:95 random units of time on the clock… April Fool’s!
That is an interesting countdown.
I love April Fool’s. Anyone have a rough estimate of the actual time left?
@shiranissosexy it’s not even base 10. But my guess is an hour or more. 9 seconds times 6 digits, times 88 if the tens digit is base 7 is roughly 80 minutes. But it could change how it counts at any time.
Oops, I forgot it started at 95, and I count seconds slower than everyone else. Too late. Must sleep. This will give two hours to do so.
Go home Meh, you’re drunk…
Clock is broken! Great so now how will we know when the next item is up?… oh I get it! Great joke Meh!
Someone do the math already!
@housepage916 what if the ten second digit is base 7? You don’t know what it could be.
@djslack @housepage916 we’ll have a better idea of what MIGHT happen when we get to the 10 minute mark, depending on the seconds clock.
@djslack @shiranissosexy well I’m watching a countdown that I usually ignore so i am the fool here
@housepage916 the internal clock variable for the display appears to be ticking at normal time; ‘strftime: “111:03”’
So it was probably a 120 min deal, echoing what @stolicat derived
@mehty @stolicat is the real hero
/giphy wtf
Each second is taking so long. I am confuzzled
It’s about 10 seconds for 1 second to change… based off of my sleep deprived brain…
@reedmo That’s what i got by using my admittedly less-than-sharp internal clock.
@reedmo i believe it til i saw the clock drop by 5 seconds. No way this isn’t on purpose. But that’s irritating. I want sleep, not more doorbell!
@placecm @reedmo It’s 10 seconds per second, then it goes down 5 seconds in 10 seconds. So it’s a minute per ten seconds? In any case, I’m going to sleep.
@placecm @reedmo, Yeah, “I need more Cowbells!”
[Christopher Walken/SNL]
I would be interested in a cheap video doorbell, but it has it’s own proprietary cloud service, rather than just using HomeKit? Lame.
@sstaver the Venn diagram of cheap video doorbell and homekit video doorbell looks a lot like an elementary school drawing of boobs. The two circles don’t touch in most examples.
@sstaver I agree… but their cloud subscription actually seems really cheap.
@sstaver I have this doorbell. I just added a SD card and have video saved locally to the camera. It gets the job done. Wish the audio was better, but for the price can’t complain.
This is like old times, the display bug in the timer when it exceeds 99m 59s. I think I remember that it shifts everything and drops the lowest digit, so 11:95 is really 119m 5x sec. That lowest number is changing every 10 seconds. It’s a 2 hour deal. It should fix itself when gets below 100 minutes.
@stolicat
/giphy smarter than the average bear
@stolicat So it’s not actually a troll, it’s just the timer not being able to display enough digits.
That is so Meh.
@m2pt5 @stolicat
Most think it’s broken
But that’s just how it behaves
When you use it wrong
This is why I set timers on my phone. I get a better idea the time frame when this happens.
@jnicholson0619 well, my timers didnt help me that time.
This is so Meh.
Troll Timer
And now the seconds are counting down as seconds with 99 minutes to go. So it’s about an hour forty right now.
I figured it out from one line of code in the javascript on the page:
$countdown.countdown(new Date(‘Fri Apr 01 2022 08:40:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)’))
That turns out to be 4:40am eastern time.
@cengland0 Ding ding ding, looks like we have a winner! Unless they pull some more crazy crap in the meantime!
So am I correct in believing the clock will continue to reset until we buy this crap?
/giphy Meh timer
