Alarm Clock Python Project

 

  Alarm Clock Python Project

Being a beginner it’s critical to work in the right direction. To master a programming language, you should work on projects. In this article, we will develop a basic python project – Alarm clock

It is no doubt that an alarm clock is always handy to alert us whenever we sleep, take a short nap, or to remind us about the work, we always get oblivious about.

Our ancestors have been using an alarm clock, going back to its 2,000 years long history but over time, the new advancements in technologies allow us to keep an alarm clock without it containing a dial, gear trains, etc. How? Let’s find out further.

Alarm Clock About the Python Project

The objective of our project is to implement an alarm clock using Python. Python consists of some very innovative libraries such as datetime and tkinter which help us to build the project using the current date and time as well as to provide a user interface to set the alarm according to the requirement in 24-hour format.

Prerequisites

This project requires good knowledge of Python and GUI (Graphic User Interface). Python when combined with Tkinter provides a fast and easy way to create GUI applications. Tkinter provides a powerful object-oriented interface to the Tk GUI toolkit. All the modules used need not be downloaded beforehand like the other libraries like NumPy, thus this project will be user friendly and accessible in any virtual environment used for python programming.

Project File Structure

First, let’s check the steps to build an Alarm Clock program in Python:

• Importing all the libraries and modules required
• Putting forward a while loop which takes the argument of the time, the user wants to set the alarm on and automatically breaks when the time is up, with sound
• Create a display window for user input.

Source Code:

#Importing all the necessary libraries to form the alarm clock:

from tkinter import *

import datetime

import time

import winsound

def alarm(set_alarm_timer):

    while True:

        time.sleep(1)

        current_time = datetime.datetime.now()

        now = current_time.strftime("%H:%M:%S")

        date = current_time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

        print("The Set Date is:",date)

        print(now)

        if now == set_alarm_timer:

            print("Time to Wake up")

            winsound.PlaySound("sound.wav",winsound.SND_ASYNC)

            break

def actual_time():

    set_alarm_timer = f"{hour.get()}:{min.get()}:{sec.get()}"

    alarm(set_alarm_timer)

clock = Tk()

clock.title("DataFlair Alarm Clock")

clock.iconbitmap(r"dataflair-logo.ico")

clock.geometry("400x200")

time_format=Label(clock, text= "Enter time in 24 hour format!", fg="red",bg="black",font="Arial").place(x=60,y=120)

addTime = Label(clock,text = "Hour  Min   Sec",font=60).place(x = 110)

setYourAlarm = Label(clock,text = "When to wake you up",fg="blue",relief = "solid",font=("Helevetica",7,"bold")).place(x=0, y=29)

# The Variables we require to set the alarm(initialization):

hour = StringVar()

min = StringVar()

sec = StringVar()

#Time required to set the alarm clock:

hourTime= Entry(clock,textvariable = hour,bg = "pink",width = 15).place(x=110,y=30)

minTime= Entry(clock,textvariable = min,bg = "pink",width = 15).place(x=150,y=30)

secTime = Entry(clock,textvariable = sec,bg = "pink",width = 15).place(x=200,y=30)

#To take the time input by user:

submit = Button(clock,text = "Set Alarm",fg="red",width = 10,command = actual_time).place(x =110,y=70)

clock.mainloop()

#Execution of the window.