The Clock display
A clock page for the muadzin and bilal in a separate room, to cue the adzan and iqamat calls — how to open it, what's on it, how it behaves at prayer time, and what its messages mean.
Quick answer
Open yourmosque.awqot.app/clock (your own subdomain, then /clock) in any browser — no sign-in. It shows an analogue clock with the time to the next prayer drawn as an arc, a digital clock, and today's prayer times. At each prayer it shows the same prayer card and iqamat countdown as your main display, using your iqamat offsets.
Who it's for, and how to open it
The main display is for the congregation. The Clock display is for the muadzin and bilal, on a screen of their own in a separate room or chamber, so they know when to call the adzan and when to start the iqamat. It can be a small screen, a spare tablet, or any device with a browser. It's built for a square screen and scales to the shorter side on any other shape.
Go to your mosque's own address followed by /clock, for example yourmosque.awqot.app/clock. There is nothing to install or sign in to. It follows the theme you chose on the Themes tab of Mosque Admin Dashboard, and picks up a theme change within about 30 seconds.
Until it has the exact time from Awqōt's servers it shows a Syncing time… screen. It always uses Singapore time from the servers, never the device's own clock, so a wrong device clock or timezone can't make it show the wrong time.
What's on it
- Analogue clock (the home screen) — the clock face, with a coloured arc running from the hour hand to where the next prayer falls on the dial. The seconds hand is hidden by default.
- Digital clock — the day and date (Gregorian and Hijri), the time to the second, and a card for the next prayer with its countdown. The Hijri date changes at Maghrib, as on your main display; a date marked (est.) is an estimate used only when MUIS's own date isn't available.
- Prayer times — today's Subuh, Syuruk, Zohor, Asar, Maghrib and Isyak, with the current prayer highlighted and the next prayer's countdown, plus the standing MUIS attribution.
- Settings — Rotation (Auto, 90° or 270°, for screens mounted on their side) and Full Screen, which hides the browser bars on the display.
Moving around
It always opens on the analogue clock. Swipe left or right (or use the arrow keys) to move between screens; Home on a keyboard jumps back to the clock. A row of dots at the bottom shows where you are — the house icon is the clock. The dots and the pointer fade away after a few seconds, and after 5 minutes without a touch it returns to the analogue clock by itself.
For a screen with no touch or keyboard, add options to the address: ?panel=digital, ?panel=table (prayer times) or ?panel=settings opens that screen first; ?rotate=90 or ?rotate=270 turns it; ?seconds=on shows the seconds hand. Rotation chosen in Settings is remembered on that device; one set in the address is not.
At prayer time
When a prayer is reached, the prayer card covers the whole screen, exactly as on your main display: the prayer name with Iqamat in and the countdown, then Iqamat for 2 minutes, then the prayer name and its adzan time for the length set under Prayer time overlay → Duration (minutes), and it fades out. If you've set an Alert background image there, it's used here too. The Side panel / Full screen choice doesn't apply — on the Clock display the card always covers the whole screen. Zohor on a Friday has no card.
The countdown uses your Iqamat offsets and any Day-specific iqamat override from the Display tab. An offset of 0 means the adzan-time card only, with no countdown — see Understanding your prayer time display for how offsets work. Settings are re-read about every 30 seconds and once more just before each prayer, so a change you save is picked up without refreshing.
It looks after itself
The Clock display reloads the prayer times each day and every few minutes, and checks for a new version of itself every 5 minutes, refreshing on its own when there is one. If it loses its internet connection it keeps running on the last timetable and settings it saved.
What its messages mean
- Syncing time… then Waiting for network… — it's waiting for the first exact time from Awqōt's servers. If it still says Waiting for network… after a minute, check the device's internet connection. It never shows the device's own clock in the meantime.
- Mosque not found — This subdomain isn't linked to an active Awqōt mosque yet. — the address doesn't match an active mosque. Check the spelling of your subdomain; a mosque that isn't active yet, or has been suspended, won't load either.
- Offline · using saved timetable and settings — it couldn't reach Awqōt just now and is using what it last saved. It recovers by itself when the connection returns.
- Checking mosque settings… or Mosque settings are unavailable. Retrying… — it can't load your mosque's settings and tries again every 30 seconds. Until it has them, a prayer shows the adzan-time card only, never a guessed countdown; once the settings load, the countdown appears if iqamat is still ahead. A device that has loaded your settings before keeps using the last ones it saw.
- Update unavailable · showing the last saved display data — a refresh of the timetable failed; the display carries on with the last data and tries again.
- Sideways or upside-down — open Settings and choose 90° or 270° under Rotation, or leave it on Auto for an upright screen.
Still stuck?
The Awqōt team is happy to help with the Clock display.