Advansity (UPDATED 16-OCT-2024)

The Advansity Suite is featured by Chris Titus on his Youtube channel:

https://youtu.be/WROzWPK3iw8?t=643

FEATURES:

✔ TIME & WEATHER & AIR QUALITY & ASTRONOMY & WORLD CLOCK

TIME & DATE 
- over 30 variants:

ASTRO WEATHER MultiLingual (not included)  - Download ASTRO Weather  Here  
- 10 variants.

WINDOWS AIR QUALITY (not included)  - Download Windows Air Quality  Here
ASTRONOMY (not included)  - Download Astronomy  Here
- Day & Night World Map/Globe
- Moon Phases
- Earth & Sun Animations
WINDOWS MASTER CLOCK (not included)  - Download Windows Master Clock  Here
- World Clock
WINDOWS UV RADIATION (not included)  - Download Windows UV Radiation  Here
- UV Index

✔ MUSIC PLAYER

- 2 variants

Advansity Deluxe Player : 

Supported players :

SPOTIFY DESKTOP PLAYER - Tested with  Spotify 1.1.40

Instructions :

1.Download and install Spotify Desktop Player (not the Windows Store version):

www.spotify.com/us/download/wi…

2.Open Windows PowerShell and enter the five commands from the instructions below :

-Follow the spicetify-cli installation instructions here: spicetify.app/docs/getting-sta…

Copy ONLY the first command and enter it in PowerShell.

-Then enter the following four commands in PowerShell, one by one, and press the "Enter" key:

spicetify

spicetify config extensions webnowplaying.js

spicetify config inject_css 0 replace_colors 0

spicetify backup apply

After the last command Spotify should restart and it should work instantly. .

3. Select "Spotify+WebMusic" in the skin settings menu

WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER – Tested

WINAMP - Tested with Winamp 5.8

iTUNES - Tested with iTunes 12.10.8.5

AIMP - Tested with AIMP 4.70

MEDIAMONKEY - Tested with MediaMonkey 4.1.29

FOOBAR2000 - Tested with foobar2000 1.5.5

The foo_cad plugin needs to be installed in foobar2000\components  foo_cad plugin (download)

MUSICBEE - Tested with MusicBee 3.3

You must  enable "CD Art Display" plugin in MusicBee>Edit>EditPreferences>Plugins

Supported sites :

YOUTUBE – Tested
YOUTUBE MUSIC – Tested
APPLE MUSIC – Tested
SPOTIFY – Tested
SOUNDCLOUD – Tested

You will need one of the browser extensions for this to work:      Chrome             Firefox  

Then choose "Spotify+WebMusic" in the skin settings menu.

Notes: 
-When playing the song, you can click on the progress bar to jump to a certain position.
-Deluxe Player: Click on the volume icons to adjust the volume.

✔ VISUALIZER

- 7 variants :

- Bar Visualizer
- Wave Visualizer
- Line Visualizer  
- Sphere Visualizer  
- Spiro Visualizer  

- Star Visualizer  

NEW: Deluxe Visualizer

Instructions Deluxe Visualizer:
Use the context menu to access the skin settings (right click on the skin and choose "Custom skin actions")
To change skin size go with the Mouse over the skin, then move the Mouse Wheel "UP" (to increase skin size) or "DOWN" (to decrease skin size).
Click the middle mouse button to return to the default skin size.

✔ CALENDAR

- 2 variants
Based on Lua Calendar by Smurfier.

Place the cursor over the calendar to display the scroll buttons.
Click the arrow buttons to display the previous month or next month.
Click the dot button to return to the current month.

✔ DOCK

- Horizontal & Vertical
- 3 icons variants  
Up to 20 icons
Color & White

✔ RECYCLE BIN

Dynamic icon change ( 5 variants ):

- empty

- up to 256 MB

- 256 MB - 512 MB
- 512 MB - 768 MB

- over 768 MB

Left click on the icon to open the bin.

Right click on the icon to empties the bin after confirmation.

Place the cursor over the icon to see the size.

✔ SYSTEM

- 3 variants : BAR & CIRCLE & CHARTS

CPU CLOCK  (Requires CoreTemp)
CPU USAGE

CPU TEMPERATURE (Requires CoreTemp)

GPU USAGE (Requires MSI Afterburner))
GPU TEMPERATURE  (Requires MSI Afterburner)
GPU CLOCK  (Requires MSI Afterburner)
VRAM USAGE  (Requires MSI Afterburner)
RAM USAGE

DRIVE USAGE/FREE (up to 6 drives)
SYSTEM INFO

✔ NETWORK

NETWORK TRAFFIC: DOWNLOAD/UPLOAD

NETWORK TRAFFIC LIGHTS:

- Green (Traffic ON)

- Yellow (No Internet connection)

- Red (No Network connection)

✔ TOP  PROCESSES

The Top Processes  monitor the CPU, GPU and RAM utilization of the top 5 processes on your computer.

✔ RSS FEED - News

- 2 sources: GOOGLE & BBC

- Click on each news item for details.

✔ UPTIME

- 2 variants: UpTime & UpTime+Record ("Best UpTime")

✔ WORLDWIDE EARTHQUAKES

- Highlighting earthquakes with magnitude 4+
- Highlighting earthquakes with magnitude 6+

CoreTemp
To display  CPU Clock and CPU temperature, Core Temp needs to be installed and running in the background.

MSI Afterburner
To display GPU Usage, GPU Clock, VRAM and GPU temperature, MSI Afterburner needs to be installed and running in the background.


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To open the settings menu right click on each skin and choose Advansity-Settings_Menu-Settings.ini
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Skin size change:

To change skin size go with the Mouse over the skin, then move the Mouse Wheel "UP" (to increase skin size) or "DOWN" (to decrease skin size)

CREDIT:

Windows folders icons - original author  NhatPG (www.deviantart.com/nhatpg/art/…)
Recycle Bin icon - original author chrfb (www.deviantart.com/chrfb/art/e…) with some modifications made by me
Line Visualize - original code author HipHopium
Sphere & Spiro & Star & Deluxe Visualizers - original code author Eclectic-Tech
Wave Visualizer - original code author Eldog-02

Updates:

• 16.10.2024 - Replaced UsageMonitor plugin with MSI Afterburner for GPU usage (more accuracy)

- Rewritten CPU measure to use UsageMonitor with the utility performance counters (more accuracy).
     • 12.08.2023 - Added GPU temperature, GPU Clock and VRAM using MSI Afterburner.
                                Added scrolling text for music players.
     • 18.05.2023 - Updated the WebNowPlaying plugin to version 1.2.0
     • 22.04.2023 - Added Worldwide Earthquakes

     • 10.04.2023 - Added Bar visualizer and Wave visualizer
                                NEW design for Time18.
                                NEW design for  Network.
                                NEW design for System Circle

     • 09.02.2022 - Added vertical variant for Dock

     • 06.02.2022 - NEW design for Time&Date - over 30 variants
                                Added Analog Clock Animated
                                Added RSS Feed
                                Added Uptime

                                NEW design for Deluxe player

                                Now use the Mouse Wheel to change the skin size

                               (exceptions: Line Visualizer & RSS Feed)

     • 27.10.2021 - Added Advansity System Info variant

                                Added in the settings menu the option to choose the color of the charts
                                Added in the settings menu the option to choose the color of the current day/month 
                                in the calendar
     • 26.10.2021 - Added Advansity System Charts variant
     • 21.10.2021 - Added in the settings menu the option to choose the color of the recycle bin
                                 Added some improvements to the settings menu
                                 Fixed some errors in the  Premium System code
     • 05.10.2021 - Added Advansity System Premium variant
     • 03.10.2021 - Updated the Free Drives System variants
     • 12.05.2021 - Added version 6 for Time and Current Week Calendar
     • 10.05.2021 - Updated the WebNowPlaying plugin to version 0.5.0.0
     • 18.04.2021 - Added Advansity Deluxe Visualizer
     • 06.04.2021 - Added the option to choose two new fonts for Time4
     • 30.03.2021 - Added the option to choose white icons for Dock

     • 19.03.2021 - Added for System the option to choose the thickness of the bar
     • 14.03.2021 - Fixed recycle bin icon is not displayed correctly
     • 28.02.2021 - Added CPU Clock Speed and CPU model name
     • 24.02.2021 - Added Circle variant for System
     • 23.02.2021 - Added variant 5 for Time
     • 21.02.2021 - Added  variant 4 for Time
     • 20.02.2021 - New look for Time-variant 1
     • 19.02.2021 - New version for Network
     • 17.02.2021 - Replaced SpeedFan with CoreTemp
     • 15.02.2021 - Added a new version for System that displays free memory and free disk space
     • 14.02.2021 - Added three new visualizers
     • 12.01.2021 - Added option to use Astronomy
     • 28.12.2020 - Updated Dock
     • 24.12.2020 - New look for Advansity Player
     • 26.10.2020 - New look for Advansity Deluxe Player
     • 27.09.2020 - Added album cover for Advansity Player
     • 25.09.2020 - New look for Advansity Deluxe Player
     • 21.09.2020 - Added deluxe variant for Music Player
     • 20.09.2020 - Fixed incorrect display for song with long name
     • 19.09.2020 - Added Calendar
     • 17.09.2020 - Now Spotify is fully supported
                                 Added Top 5 Processes
                                 Made some code improvements
     • 10.09.2020 - Added variant 3 for Time 
     • 09.09.2020 - Added option to use Windows 10 Air Quality
     • 05.09.2020 - Added Visualizer
     • 02.09.2020 - Added Music Player
     • 29.08.2020 - Added variant 2 for Time 
     • 25.08.2020 - Added option to use AstroWeather. Remove Yahoo weather.
     • 10.08.2020 - Added option to display a single drive
     • 13.07.2020 - Added Recycle Bin
     • 14.07.2020 - New design for Time & Date                   







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