On Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:18:40 -0400
Josh Grosse <[email protected]> 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.

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