• I just set the date and time on my new watch. It was wicked hard to figure out how to move up and down in the menus. There should be a paragraph or two describing how it works. I think its brilliant for the small screen but I have never run into an interface that works this way. I kept trying to use what works on my phone. It just doesn't work that way.

    I think much of the confusion I encountered was because there are some terms used in this project that have different meaning in other systems I've worked on. This page about apps ( https://banglejs.com/apps/ ) did help me to realized that the "Launcher" (I think) loads the various menus and ultimately launches an "app" based on which selection you activated. Many of the terms in this project use the same words I'm used to but do not have the same meaning I thought they did.

    I didn't find https://banglejs.com/start2 useful because it talked about (I think) loading new apps onto the watch. What I want to do is learn what "apps" are on the watch and how to use them. (Am I wrong about that?) But the page it took me to, https://banglejs.com/apps/, seems to be a system to download and install new apps onto the watch. That would have been useful to have a paragraph about that. But I do not want to download any apps yet. Not until I can navigate around what is on the watch now.

    Thanks all. I think I'm catching on now.

  • I agree that the way the docs are structure are a bit idiosyncratic - Personally I am solving it with having a bookmark folder with all the bits I saved for later. Finding stuff 3 links deep is not easy otherwise. For a project with this little resources its quite quite good really. Stuff is documented even if you cannot find it right away :).

    Realistically compared with say the Pebble the UI is "horrible but serviceable". I can live with it but well I don't have to. its all just a bunch of Javascript files really they are super easy to modify. Hence why I would not worry whats "on the watch" out of the box.

    Most important are probably these 3 links for me:
    https://www.espruino.com/ide/# the IDE allows you to both test stuff really quick and more crucially explore whats on the watch currently. You can explore and download these apps and modify them directly.

    https://github.com/espruino/BangleApps contains all the apps source code in the apps directory. Look at how others did stuff.

    https://www.espruino.com/Reference#softw­are I use the API reference a lot. ctrl-f is your friend here.

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