From: Josh Grosse Subject: Re: New port: sysutils/termdown - an ASCII art countdown timer for the terminal To: Thomas Frohwein Cc: ports@openbsd.org Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:36:51 -0400 On Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 02:29:46PM -0700, Thomas Frohwein wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:18:40 -0400 > Josh Grosse wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 01:10:37PM -0700, Thomas Frohwein wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Please find attached the port of sysutils/termdown. Termdown is a > > > countdown timer (or alternatively a stopwatch) that shows up > > > prominently in the terminal. It takes a variety of time durations > > > and absolute time designations to count down to [1]. The email > > > includes the dependency graphics/py-art which is a python library > > > for terminal ASCII art in different styles [2]. > > > > > > Proposing this now as a countdown timer can be useful for scheduled > > > live streams, like for example with obs-studio [3]. After announcing > > > the stream, the countdown timer can help with signaling the audience > > > that may have tuned in early that the stream will start at a > > > particular time. > > > > > > ok to import? > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/trehn/termdown > > > [2] https://pypi.org/project/art/ > > > [3] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=178377397524447&w=2 > > > > Tested on amd64, working well! One minor issue: I have espeak > > installed and can't seem to get audio out when I use -v with any > > configured espeak voice. Not that I have a use for it. :) > > Yes, I couldn't get that to work either, but that's fairly gimmicky so > I would still advocate that we could import this even without that > functionality. Agreed!