12mo ago

Fitbit Clock Face

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I unironically love this and would use it as my watch face just to get a reaction from my coworkers. Link?
- Heres the link to it https://gallery.fitbit.com/details/74a1aee7-457c-441e-9e93-ed17a18b01df?openwith=fitbit
  Repo: https://github.com/Sharkgrammer/clockface.json
- Yep. I switched. Doubt anyone will notice tho

My god it’s all strings.

This is a pinetime it looks like.
You should get one, open source and $30.
- Does it support the watch command?
  user@watch:~ $ watch now
  Otherwise, who knows when "now" was...
  /s
- Watches should be round IMO. I'm happy with my Samsung Watch 4 Classic.
  
  Yeah, but square screens are way cheaper to procure and to program for, and every little helps in an open source project aiming for $30.
  
  honestly just depends on what kind of watchface you want, square is cheaper and in some ways more convenient so if you don't want an analog clockface there's no reason to bother
- Thanks for posting! I was looking at the pinephone esrlier but this would be an even better tinker device for me atm!
  
  The pinephone is not really usable now. The pinetime is awesome though.
  
  I tinker more with my pinephone than my pinetime, which is basically "waiting for an update and then applying it". Out of the 2 the Pinetime is the one I use, the Pinephone is currently substituting as a pihole because I broke the Odroid C1.
  There's a lot more to do and play with on the phone compared to the watch, but the watch is reliable to use daily.
- Gave a quick check, and it costs more than twice the price to buy it in EU, everything from Pine64, for some reason, odd, will look at this in more detail later at some point in case i missed something because the idea of an open, not locked, not tracking your every move smartwatch is appealing, but that doubling the price thing is a minus.
  
  Yeah I had a similar experience getting mine shipped to Canada, $30 but another $30ish for shipping. I hope one day they are available easier and everywhere.
- The stopwatch is only working while it's on the screen and the screen is active. Notifications stay there until you manually discard them. The heart rate sensor is a complete toy since you can only manually trigger it, and it took 2 years for the infinitime devs to read the sensor docs and realise their algorithm is bad. The step counter can only automatically sync, so when it fails to do so for half a day you need to walk around and shake your wrist while keeping you phone and watch screens active. And the list of fails continues beyond that.
  On top of that it costs 65€ ($75) when ordering from the European warehouse, and they don't allow you to order from the main one because it would end up cheaper. Don't waste your money unless you need a reason to practice cpp.
  
  The stopwatch does only work with the screen on, but it also keeps the screen on so it doesn't stop working.
  Notifications don't stay there... You can see the last 5 notifications if you swipe down on the main screen.
  You can enable the HR monitor and exit the HR app. It will show on the watch face if it supports it. The HR sensor only works if the screen is on so it doesn't drain the battery otherwise. It's not great and takes a while to display the rate.
  Idk about the step counter. It's the most useless feature on any smartwatch so I never use it. What does it count as a step? What's the use of counting the steps? You know how you did or didn't walk..
  I don't have many other fails. The alarm works great, the flashlight gets daily use and I use it to control the music app on my phone. It does everything I need for an open source device, which is the primary reason I have it.
- Ayy this is exactly what I'm wearing
- I bought one and wqs quite happy with it until it just randomly got stuck in a bootloop and no amount of resetting or letting it drain helped
  
  If it's been in the drawer for all this time, charge it again, it will ptobably boot. I had a similar issue, but didn't let the thing shut down conpletely (by making sure the battery is completely drained).
- u sold me if it has hearthrate and stuff (idk what tracks sleep)
  
  I would not say that any of the features work well enough to consider them as actual features. The only thing that is truly reliable is telling time.
  My battery life is about 3 days. The notifications are ugly and bare minimum. It does not store more than 5 at a time.
  
  It does not track sleep as that would require too much info to be sent to a third party. The battery is insane on it as well I get 5 plus days on mine.
- What is a good OS for a dummy?
  
  IIRC it comes with a firmware called InfiniTime preinstalled. So I guess that one.
- What Android software could you use for managing it? Gadgetbridge seems to not have fully-developed support for it, even with their preferred firmware.
  I'm using Gadgetbridge with a hacked Amazfit Bip and I'm pretty happy. I like the multicolor TFT LCD w/no default backlight on the Bip, which is very readable in bright light and only requires a quick button press to get the backlight on in the dark, or you can waste more battery life and have it turn on when you turn it towards yourself. It's also got built-in GPS/workout tracking (you have to manually flash the A-GPS data occasionally...), the ability to load little open source apps, sleep tracking, heart rate tracking, notifications, custom watchfaces, etc which I'm sure the Pinetime has most of. The battery also lasts ages since it uses such a low-power LCD.
  I'm not saying the Pinetime isn't good, but decent alternatives exist. I would love a truly open-source smart watch, but maybe when the project is slightly more mature. I guess I could always get one and contribute to it... $30 is really not much. I'll definitely try it if my Bip breaks.
  
  I have found nothing that worked, was not spying on you, was not some hipster pipedream, and has lots of people working on it. Oh and gadgetbridge seems to work good, what do you mean not supported?
- Thanks for the heads up!
- First I've heard of it, is it a worthy successor to the Pebble?
  
  If you want a successor to the Pebble, also consider Bangle.js 2. It's a little more expensive compared with the PineTime but I got one and I'm very happy!
  
  Never owned a Pebble, But I think as they still make the pinetime it bodes well.
- Or a Bangle.JS 2 if you like GPS :-)
  
  But the pinetime uses the phones navigation/gps. I am not sure what that would do?

Awful lot of strings that should have been integers. It is JavaScript, though, so I guess that tracks.

That’s something I think I’d like to use, but I don’t know if could get over the fact that neither the date nor the time are in ISO 8601 format.
- They should put it as Unix epoch instead!
  
  I once worked in a software shop where all release packages had the Unix epoch timestamp in the filename. Yes, these sorted brilliantly making it trivial to find the last one. But good luck finding a build from a specific date/time.
- Lol I came here to say this
- The date format isn't even human readable (at least in American). It should be Sun, Jan 14th
  
  Considering it uses day then month, 24hr clock, and distance in km, I'm guessing the reason why it's not "human readable in American" is because it's intended to be "human readable for pretty much everybody else"
  The date format isn't incorrect at all
  
  I still think YYYY-MM-DD should be more apt for an international release.

I prefer YAML please
- Please, dont joke with things like this. Someone might take you seriously...
  
  XML it is!
- here you dropped your whitespace 🤏
- yaml sucks. I'd like a toml one
  
  I exclusively use YATL: Yet Another TomL.
- Sexpr master race!

Everything's a string 😢
- Everythings an object 😰
  
  lua tables all the way down

Datestamp horror.

Finally. A human readable format. And pretty too.
- Jesus I hope this is a joke. I hate json 🙄
  
  yeah for real, let's see an xml one instead
  
  Would you prefer Yaml?

Hopefully that's not a resting heart rate.
- They’re just excited about posting this image online.
  
  If this is a photo for a bug report, it might have made his week.
- I'm sure it isn't.. but you'd be surprised how much resting hr goes up with age.

Clocky McClockface
Use datatypes

I've seen too many android devices with corrupt memory showing something like that to want it as a my watchface...

If only fitness apis were actually that easy

Here's one for Wear OS / Pixel Watch.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.watchfacestudio.az261jsoncodewatchface
EDIT: And a terminal one.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.watchfacestudio.awfterminal

You can connect to a vscode server on a Galaxy Watch, just sayin'

You've got the hour hand and the minute hand… they're right there. What's wrong? /s

It's perfect 🥹

what does the last 4 mean under stats?
- distance: how far you've traveled if you put all the steps in a line (may also be gps tracked too)
  azm: active zone minutes or how many minutes you've spent with your heart rate in the "active zone" where you burn more calories
  floors: how many flights of stairs you've climbed
  calories: estimate of how many calories you've burnt based on all the other stats
  
  nice, thx

im confused as to why it doesn't use variables? this is pretty interesting to see though
- Guess this is a printout for humans, not to feed to the watch.
- In JSON the value on the left would be the variable name the value in the right of the pair is the value.

This is great

Duude this is so cool. Is there a watch like this for galaxy watch?
- Quick search came up with this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.watchfacestudio.az261jsoncodewatchface

But a json file is used for storing settings and the like, not for providing real-time data, yeah?
- API calls often return json. It's just a data format.
- I think:
  that's the joke
  this is just a watchface template, not an actual file being updated constantly
- /sys/: am I some kind of joke to you?
  To be fair you won't find Jason there. But plenty of files that provide real time information about the system!
- No it's used for all types of data transfer and real time data as well.
- I mean, I've never used JSONs before but I imagine you could still write to them in realtime at least, as inefficient as that sounds lol. So you could probably get the same results on an actual text editor if you could modify it to update the text automatically when it detects a change instead of prompting the user

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