Fix Marquee desync bug; add time/temp footer with progress bar at full width

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# subwave-nowplaying
Tronbyt/Tidbyt app showing the current track on a [SUB/WAVE](https://github.com/perminder-klair/subwave)
internet radio station: album art, track title, artist, the current show
and host, and a progress bar for the track pinned to the bottom, with
title/artist/show scrolling if they don't fit. Color scheme (cyan
title/artist, gray label, white show name, magenta host/progress bar) is
internet radio station: album art, track title/artist (scrolling), a thin
separator, the current show and host, and a full-width footer with
time/temperature and a track progress bar pinned to the bottom edge. Color
scheme (cyan title/artist, white show name, magenta host/progress bar) is
loosely modeled on SUB/WAVE's own web now-playing display.
Not tied to any specific station — set your own station's base URL in the
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instead of stale track info.
- If a track has no `subsonic_id`, or the cover fetch fails, falls back to a
full-width layout with no art rather than a broken image.
- Shows a "-- Show --" label, the current show name
(`context.activeShow.name`), and host name (`dj.name`) below the artist,
and a track progress bar pinned to the very bottom.
- Shows the current show name (`context.activeShow.name`) and host name
(`dj.name`) below the artist, separated by a thin divider line.
- Shows the local time and temperature (`context.clock`/`context.weather`)
and the track progress bar as a full-width (64px) footer overlaid on the
bottom of the layout — not confined to the 32px-wide text column, which
gives roughly 2x the character budget for the time/temp line (at the cost
of covering the bottom ~9px of the album art with a translucent bar).
**Why show/host/time-temp are plain Text, not Marquee:** pixlet's Marquee
runs its own internal scroll-cycle animation regardless of whether the text
actually needs to scroll, and combining multiple Marquees with very
different cycle lengths in one Root desyncs them — confirmed via an
isolated repro where a short Marquee'd line intermittently collapsed to a
single character on frames where the long title/artist marquees were
mid-cycle. Only title/artist (which actually benefit from scrolling for
long names) use Marquee; the shorter supplementary fields use plain
Text/Row and just clip if too wide, which is an acceptable tradeoff.
**Progress bar caveat:** the now-playing API reports track `duration` but
not elapsed/remaining time, so the app tracks playback position itself —
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