WiFi Clock

I signed up to AliExpress not so long ago using email/password. I never use third parties to authorisation.

Checking now, on "Register" I get asked for "email or phone number" and then underneath "continue with" Facebook, Google, Xitter or Apple.

I've signed up to Ali Express with an email address.

Ditto, if they had insisted on using someone else's service to sign-up, I would have not bothered.

Using Google etc is an advantage in that you do not need extra passwords, i.e. you can manage without a password manager.

Given that I do have a password manager, there's no disadvantage.

Just to update everybody. If you already have an account you can sign on with email/password, if you don't there is no option to sign up apart from Google/Facebook etc. I went through the "lost password" process and revived my old account from some years ago.

Now that's out the way anybody got any recommendations for a WiFi clock please :-)

I still think you're wrong, just went into firefox private mode, and the registration screen will accept an email addr, or phone number as well as "continue with facebook/google/twitter/apple">

when it's idle it shows a full-screen clock, e.g.

I also use it to stream radio, dim smart lamps and occasionally as an alarm, it can tell you the weather but I've got a window for that ...

Bit early for panto season, but, "oh yes there is!"

I just opened a private window and went to the register page. Immediately prompted to enter an email address or phone number. Below that section was "Or Continue with" followed by a list of OAuth providers (faceache, google, twatter, and apple).

Use of the latter was clearly optional and not the expected primary route through:

When you say wifi clock, do you just mean one that will synch time with an internet based time server?

OOI what is the project that needs an atomic clock, are you planning on launching a rival to the Global Positioning System? :-)

Sounds like a fun a fairly trivial project for a microcontroller driving a display of some kind (you can even get some with small OLED screens on one side of the PCB.

I have just that - a Raspbery Pi Pico W (ie the one with WiFi, about £6), a 1" OLED I2C display (about £5) and -in my case- a BME280 temperature/pressure sensor. A simple MicroPython app connects to my home wifi, gets the time and date via NTP, and logs timestamped temperature and pressure every 5 minutes to a CSV file.

I don't know, "oh no there isn't" :-)

You can sign in on that page if you have an account but if you don't and want to set one up then it's Google/Facebook etc.

I entered a bogus email address and it said it had sent an authentication code to that email, so it seems like it will accept an email-based registration.

(they are terrible for 'we detected an anomaly, please do our captcha / go away', possibly because I adblock and so don't run their tracking scripts. Occasionally the website just refuses to work at all)

Theo

Wow, I can read that without my glasses, where can I get one please :-)

Main reason I bought one

Mine's a gen1, but v.similar to gen2, got it cheap as old model

or

Their slidy-block-thing to prove I'm human often hates me.

What happens when you type in your unregistered email address into that box?

It asks for a password.

The killer for me is Captcha with traffic lights, I think it's because I used to be a cyclist :-)

It tells you it has sent a code to that address for you to enter in the boxes below.

I didn't go any further than that!

nib