ThomasVikström

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• bangle.js 2 firmware install failure

  in Bangle.js • 4 days, 9 hours

  

  Thx, I'll give it a try when I need to upgrade the other watches. Did not know about this app, but then I've not been following the app development that closely either.

• bangle.js 2 firmware install failure

  in Bangle.js • 4 days, 10 hours

  

  @Gordon
  What's the fastest and easiest way to upgrade the firmware from Windows?
  The Web IDE says it can't perform upgrades at the moment, so I finally did it through nrfToolbox, not easy for me and my "fat fingers" to fiddle with my phone, and in addition I needed to do as mentioned above, press Reply 100 times to get it through, 1% at a time.
  Now, it's one thing to do it once, and for one watch only, but as I have 11 watches (for a workshop in February) I'm simple not going to do it this way for all of them, in worst case several times per year, so that's why I'm looking for a quicker and easier way.

• My battery last 5 days top

  in Bangle.js • 2 weeks, 4 days

  

  An anecdotal observation:
  The battery in one of my Bangle 2 lasted 27 days until I charged it. It still had 9% left then so might have survived still a day. Pretty much default settings and apps. Bluetooth was on, wake on twitch on, BUT ~90-95% of the time it was lying idle on a table. Rest of the time I used it for gesture related activities and uploading/downloading data, relatively exhaustively. If I’d used it on my wrist all the time, the battery would most probably not have lasted that long.

• HID Keyboard: How to send a TAB character/keypress?

  in Bangle.js • 3 weeks, 2 days

  

  Ok... found out how to use the first skeleton code, maybe it's of some help to others. So, just needed to add ["\t"], and then MODIFY.SHIFT as per below
  kb.tap(kb.KEY["\t"], kb.MODIFY.SHIFT);

• HID Keyboard: How to send a TAB character/keypress?

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• HID Keyboard: How to send a TAB character/keypress?

  in Bangle.js • 3 weeks, 2 days

  

  Ok, partially answering myself.
  Using the code from https://github.com/espruino/BangleApps/b­lob/master/apps/hidkbd/hid-keyboard.js and changing to 0x2b in next = function (cb) { sendHid(0x2b, cb); }; I'm able to simulate TAB by a gesture I've recorded.
  But how to simulate SHIFT+TAB?

• HID Keyboard: How to send a TAB character/keypress?

  in Bangle.js • 3 weeks, 2 days

  

  With the below skeleton code I'm trying to send a TAB character (or should it be keypress?) instead of the letter A's. The intention is to control a program which is using the TAB-key to navigate forward, and SHIFT-TAB backward.

  If I intepreted the reference at https://www.espruino.com/modules/ble_hid­_keyboard.js correctly, "\t" might be TAB, but have not succeeded in replacing the ..KEY.A.. with ..KEY."\t".. or with some other variations.
  Can this be done, if so, how?

  var kb = require("ble_hid_keyboard");
  NRF.setServices(undefined, { hid : kb.report });
  
  function btnPressed() {
    // Send 'a'
    kb.tap(kb.KEY.A, 0, function() {
      // Followed by capital 'A'
      kb.tap(kb.KEY.A, kb.MODIFY.SHIFT);
    });
  }
  
  // trigger btnPressed whenever the button is pressed
  setWatch(btnPressed, BTN, {edge:"rising",repeat:true,debounce:50})­;
  

• Accelerometer Based Gesture Detection for Puck.js v2?

  in Puck.js, Pixl.js and MDBT42 • 4 weeks, 1 day

  

  So, I have 3 Puck.js (through Kickstarter, so I guess V2) lying around unused. Does anyone have the above mentioned firmware built? I know it's possible to build it myself, but using a Win10 computer it seems it isn't straightforward, and it also seems time consuming, so if anyone one has a ready made firmware I'd be happy to receive it : )

• Messages handling JS2

  in Bangle.js • 1 month, 1 week

  

  Yeah, using machine learning for this seems overkill to me as well (I wrote the tutorial referred to above ).

• Thickness of Menu Items in Bangle 2

  in Bangle.js • 3 months, 2 weeks

  

  Well, ask 10 persons and you'll get 20 answers :-)
  To me the easiest to read is the one with 2nd biggest one and bolded. Now, this is said without having a clue how small the text will be on the watch display itself. As a side note, on Bangle v1 the date with the default watch face is completely unreadable for me, even with reading glasses, only a magnifying glass can help me read the date.
  I'd also appreciate if the text would not be "touching" the frame, is it possible to add a couple of pixels margin?