So it’s gone midnight, I’m trying to get fuel prices on my dashboard, and the app I’ve installed turns out to be Dutch only. Fair enough, these things happen, but whilst I was poking around the App Store I thought, where’s the Christmas countdown? There wasn’t one, so I built it 
Christmas Countdown puts the number of sleeps until Christmas right on your Homey Pro dashboard, updating by itself every night, so the whole family can watch the number shrink.
There are eight designs to choose from:
- Midnight Snow: falling snow over a winter night sky
- Santa in the Snow: a little Santa figure trudging through sparkling snow
- Fairy Lights: a string of twinkling bulbs
- Santa Mouse: a cheeky mouse in a Santa suit, bobbing away in the snow
- Advent Calendar: 24 doors that open as December goes on, with a gold star for the big day
- Fireside: a cream fireplace & a beautifully decorated tree
- Cabin Fireside: a cosy stone fireplace with a flickering firelight glow
- Snowy Cabin: a log cabin in the mountains, smoke from the chimney & light snow falling
Every widget lets you pick the colour of the countdown, and all of them apart from the Advent Calendar come in square or half height, depending on how much room you’ve got on your dashboard.
Of course it wouldn’t be Homey without flow cards! You get triggers for each new countdown day, when the countdown reaches a set number of days, when an advent door opens & on Christmas Day itself, plus conditions for “is it Advent?” and “is it Christmas Day?”. There’s also a “Days until Christmas” tag, so you can have your speakers announce “12 sleeps to go!” over breakfast, or start the Christmas playlist on the 1st of December?
And because the widgets get taken down in January and forgotten about, the app sends you a Homey notification each year (1st November by default, you can change it in the app settings) to remind you to put it back on the dashboard.
You can find it here: [Christmas Countdown]
If there’s a design you’d love to see for next year, shout and I’ll see what I can do.
