BJS2, drop in battery life since update

Ah, right. Sorry!

What clock face are you using out of interest? I'm kind of surprised the flashing taxes the battery so much.

Although looking at it, it's loading the icons, settings, and code off the external flash memory once a second, so it could just be that the flash memory is spending most of its time awake and so it causing a higher battery draw than normal.

If it becomes an issue, probably the best bet is to make a minimal messages widget that just flashes a single icon once a second, and the whole thing could run from RAM and would probably be an awful lot better for power consumption.

I originally tried to use the default Anton watch but had trouble getting the latest version running on 2v12 and the old version running on 2v24. Rather than fight errors I did a quick search and found Simple Clock which worked on both with no modifications.

Like I said though, it's probably not a big deal, no one else complaining, I acknowledge I'm weird for not checking my messages as they come; even without the flashing, the widget never really helped me. I'd look at it and go "yup, got a message, I'll get to it eventually".

I have issues with my battery right now as well. I'm not quite sure what's causing it. The only things I changed was switching the watch face from pebble to pebble++ and adding bthome.

But I uninstalled the mentioned message widget for now. We'll see.

Can compare it to another watch from tuesday on. My son had a bangle as a christmas wish and of course this is granted. :) And he does not really use a phone so far. He wanted it anyways as a watch first and foremost. And if everything works well he can use it to open the door via bthome as a bt beacon for our Nuki door. It works great on my one and it was the cause for installing bthome and switching to pebble++ in the first place

It's very cool to hear about BTHome being useful for you - I use it a lot here too.

What kind of battery life are you getting? You could definitely compare with a new Bangle running the same apps, but before you worry about hardware I'd do a backup and then a factory reset, and see if battery life improves, just to rule out software as that's the problem 99% of times.

Pebble++ shouldn't be much worse than Pebble - I use it here and get very good battery life, but you should be aware that some clockinfos can drain your battery a lot more than others... Displaying the date doesn't take any power, but if you display your altitude that's going to keep the barometer on, and same with heart rate to a certain extent, or if you have the clockinfo that displays seconds.

Also recently a few people noticed that if they're receiving notifications from a phone and they leave unread messages, the messages widget flashes every second and uses a lot more power (even if you can't see it because it's hidden until you swipe in Pebble++!).

but if you display your altitude that's going to keep the barometer on, and same with heart rate to a certain extent

I do use heart rate right now and I thought that this could be the culprit. There's not that much useful alternatives for the info boxes so I picked this. How bad is it? Is it holding the watch in active as well - that's what I guess.

What kind of battery life are you getting?

around 60 hours right now. :/

if they're receiving notifications from a phone and they leave unread messages, the messages widget flashes every second and uses a lot more power

Yeah, I read that, that's why I uninstalled the widget. :)

Would like to have a nice watchface with action buttons and without battery drain. Did not find one so far. Pebble++ is the closest

around 60 hours right now.

Ok, that sounds about right with HRM. By default it looks like when HRM is showing, the HRM is on.
But just go into Settings -> Apps -> Clock Info -> HRM and change it to 'Tap'

When that is set, when you first display the HRM view it turns the HRM on for 1 minute, and it turns it on when you tap on the HRM clockinfo too. Otherwise HRM is only on when it's turned on for the 'health' app - probably every 10 minutes - and it just shows you the last HRM value.

So with that you'll probably be back to much longer battery life.

Would like to have a nice watchface with action buttons and without battery drain

Pebble++ should be fine drain wise - it just gives you the flexibility to put things on that drain your battery too :)

There's not that much useful alternatives for the info boxes

You know you can install extras with https://banglejs.com/apps/?c=clkinfo

So you can have buttons for BTHome on there, sunrise/sunset, or a timer (which I often use).

If there's something specific you'd like though let me know - clockinfos are often pretty simple

If there's something specific you'd like though let me know - clockinfos are often pretty simple

Need to check this out. Perhaps I can do something myself. Want to get into it anyways.

Ok, that sounds about right with HRM.

Oh, okay. Will change the setting you are suggesting. Thanks! It was set to always of course. :D

Additionally, I found another "problem" where I have no real idea when it started. It's a bit funny, because it shows I'm not looking at my bangle that often right now. This is mostly because it's fall/winter and I wear longshirts and jackets - often with handwarming extensions - so I cannot read my watch anyway.

I do use Podcast Addict for listening to podcasts. It shows a notification box like spotify when running on the phone. For whatever reason this ends up on the bangle with media controls. This was not the case so far. This by itself is no problem but something is buggy here. The notification does not go away and is stuck in messages. When there's no newer notification to be shown on the watch, then the media info is shown with title scrolling left and right all the time even though I stopped listening to podcasts hours ago.
Something in the chain of applications and updates added this. Perhaps it was an update from you, perhaps it's podcast addict that's using another structure, perhaps it's android 15. dunno, see above. I deactivated media controls for now. Will see if this helps.

I'll take this opportunity to plug the Podcast Addict Remote watch app!