fix(odds-ticker): stop the glibc-only date format crashing the ticker

[ChuckBuilds]

The crash

_create_game_display formatted the kick-off date as:

date_text = local_time.strftime("%-m/%d")

%-m is a glibc extension. On Windows and on musl, strftime raises:

ValueError: Invalid format string

The exception escapes the per-game render, so it is not one bad card — the whole ticker falls back to "No odds data". That is exactly what I hit trying to render this plugin's screenshots, and it is why the plugin cannot be worked on off a Pi.

It now builds the same 9/13 text portably; output is byte-identical on glibc.

Ten other plugins call %-m, %-d or %-I — mostly inside the copied sports.py lineage, where CLAUDE.md requires a fix to be ported across all siblings in one PR. That is a deliberate separate sweep, filed as #414. I fixed only the two in this plugin's own files, because without them there is nothing to screenshot.

Bitmap fonts

Same pattern as #388 and #394: a .bdf exists at exactly one pixel size, and the loader caught FreeType's refusal and quietly substituted PressStart2P — so the font menu appeared to work while ignoring the choice. It now retries at the face's declared PIXEL_SIZE.

cozette.bdf is dropped from all three font menus; the core ships no file of that name (#387).

The configuration section described paths that are rejected

It documented 8 settings as top-level keys:

display_duration, scroll_speed, scroll_delay, show_favorite_teams_only,
games_per_favorite_team, max_games_per_league, show_odds_only, future_fetch_days

Every one is nested — under display_options, filtering or data_settings. The schema sets additionalProperties: false, so a config written the way the README described is rejected, not merely ignored.

Two of the eight also had the wrong default: scroll_speed is 1.0 (not 2) and scroll_delay is 0.02 (not 0.05).

All 47 settings are now documented at their real paths, including the broadcast-logo ratios, the duration block and every per-league entry. I checked each against both the plugin and the core: nothing here is dead — every setting is read somewhere.

Images

A game card, show_channel_logos on and off, and four panel sizes. Games are seeded onto the plugin; last_update has to be seeded too, or display() re-fetches and clears them — that is recorded in the shots file.

Team records read (N/A) in these renders: they come from a live per-team ESPN lookup during update(), which the renders skip. The caption says so rather than implying the field is broken.

Checks

• check_plugin.py: 8/8 pass
• render_docs_assets.py --check: all three images reproduce
• config-token audit: nothing dropped

1.3.3 → 1.4.0.

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