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Pleased to report that I have got 37 days of continuous use of a Bangle 2 from a single charge.

18 sep 100%
21 oct 19%
25 oct 9%

I decided to end the test today and put it on charge as I have not been checking it that often.

The watch was left in a draw for that time. I think if it had been on my wrist, using the step counter, back light and it would not has lasted so long.

My configuration for the test was the Lato clock, all the clock_info's , with the sunset one selected.

I normally get about 2 weeks from my general use now. I quickly consume the battery if I flash apps multiple times.

When you power on the GPS there is a tag argument that registers your app wanting the gps to stay on. At that point only your app can turn off the gps.

I thought I noticed something odd when trying tu use the Alarm app.

When you create a new timer and click on the minutes field you get the spin control (arrow at bottom and top of a number). I have been setting a value and then touching the back button expecting the value to change. But this is not the case. Back and BTN seem to be acting like a cancel. To take the new value you have to tap the centre of the screen to accept the new value.

Not noticed this before.

ah - v0.02 out now. Found a bug on the last rule, mean't you could get more than 8 wins, it was taking an already played in corner so it looked like you got an extra move.

its very annoying if you make a mistake and go back to 0.

I have tried in the emulator. Much bigger now easier to see. I have not been very sucessful at solving even on a very easy one setting. Not sure what OPEN/MUS means on the display ? The touch areas's are quite narrow. You have to be very careful to ensure you are always at the edge to make sure the selected movement occurs. Very ingenious game. Is the design yours or is this a copy of a classic game ?

:)

I have bulit a naughts and crosses app that starts off dumb and slowly applies more logic over 8 games.

You can try it out at:
https://hughbarney.github.io/BangleApps/?id=oxofocus

Its actually harder than you think as you have to know all routes to win to get the last 2 rules in play. Dont cheat by looking at the code.

Have fun ! If you can get to 9 wins you have descovered a flaw in my playing logic.

Hugh

I had a look at the code. Is that C code really running ?

I think there is maybe a problem with the logic for the state machine
for the movement / centre button. In the Emulator I can go up, up. left, left. Then Right or bottom wil rotate the tile. So it gets a bit confusing.

Great video. Very helpful. Also intresting to hear about the journey that the game has made between platforms. It is probably easier to play in the emulator, but on the watch it is quite hard to touch the right regions and to see what is actually selected. I think for the Bangle keeping the text and gane play seperate would be better but I understand this would mean a rewrite and you have ported from other code.

I look forward to your next games. Is this your Rubido game ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syi4r6Wytgs

I have thought that Othello might make a useful game on the Bangle.

Hi @joyrider3774

Thank you for all your work in Waternet. Its a fantastic effort.
https://espruino.github.io/BangleApps/?id=waternet

I gave it a spin and really struggling to play it though. I am finding the size of the puzzle area really small and wondering if a better user experience could be gained by:

• Using the whole of the screen, hide widgets, no point in having them on when in a game.
  
• move all the settings and options out to a settings app that can be called via the Bangle 2 menu.
  
• maybe a little video to show how to play each game using the different controls.
  
  

Hope this helps.

I have noticed that pull requests now get reviewed by various people.
I think this is a good thing - hopefully it will lead to higher quality code, better consistancy.

Who are the reviewers, can anyone review ?

Did I miss some announcements ?

Do we have a check list of things ? For example I feel screenshots should be mandatory. I hate having to install an app in order to see what it looks like, only to decide I dont like it and delete it, when I could have decided that from a screenshot. For example the Orloj clock looked intresting, but I could not understand what it would be like from the description. The screenshot below would have told me what I needed to know at a glance.

I have some dumb questions with regards to github that I am hoping someone can straighten me out on.

PROBLEM #1

When I started developing on Bangle, I understood basic git commands but could
not find out how to update a fork of the master Bangle repo through the github website GUI. I looked in the docs but could not find out how once you had created a fork you could update it through the github website.

Everytime I made changes I had to create a new branch on github add my change so that I had a repo that was up to date and do a pull request. After a while I realised I could work as follows.

I cloned the BangleApps (call it upstream) repo to my github user account (my fork)

I then cloned my fork onto my ChromeBook linux setup using git clone https://github.com/hughbarney/BangleApps.git. This is now my local repository.

I update the Chromebook/BangleApps (local) using git fetch upstream where upstream
is setup using
git remote add upstream https://github.com/espruino/BangleApps.git

I merge in any changes using git merge upstream/master

I make my changes and get my app working
when done I push it to my github account (the fork) using git psh origin master
This allows me to test the app will install through my own loader.
I then manually request a pull request through the github website to BangleApp

Now all this is because I could not figure out what the github website GUI actions are to update a fork after ot has got out of date.

So there must be a better way. Can anyone show me where the 'Update' button is on a github repo.
If you could speak in screenshots and I could not find a useful decription of how this is done.

PROBLEM 2

After doing a pull request - there seems to be a review process and someone else
changes your pull request (Change#1) and and then asks you to make some more changes.
Where does the changed code for (change #1) now live. Is it in my forked repository ?

See this question in the wiki:
https://github.com/espruino/BangleApps/wiki

There is also a power monitoring app that will show you how much power is being used and writes to a log. But the answer in the wiki covers most of the big power drainers.

I used to only get 3 days as I was constantly flashing new versions of code onto the watch. But I have eased off developing so much and most often get 2 weeks. This drops to about 1 week to 10 days if I start using the heart rate monitor with a setting of 3 mins. I definitely would say set heart rate to every 10 minutes or off. If you use a clock that supports clock_info you can always tap the heart rate clock_info to get a refresh.

I think I get about 20+ days on my 2nd Bangle2 which has HRM off and just stays mostly in a drawer.

Success ! Thanks everyone for your help.

    // image converter https://www.espruino.com/Image+Converter ; settings to get a fillable image
    // 1 bit bw, transparency? Y, transparent bg, white heart (must be white for color fill)
    g.drawImage(atob("FBSBAAAAAAAAAAAB+fg//8f//n//5//+f//n//5//+P//D//wf/4D/8Af+AB+AAPAABgAAAA"), 1+this.x, 1+this.y);

Thanks @Gordon - So just to check.

Select '1 bit Black/White' for 1 bpp
Make sure image is white (select inverted if black)
Make sure background is transparent when you download the image.

What do you select for 'transparency ? setting - Tick or Not Tick ?
What do you select for 'transparent to colour' setting - Tick or Not Tick ?

Thanks for the reply. I will try your example. I'm not sure compression should make any difference.

I will try 1 bpp. Though I dont understand how 1bpp could accept different 3 bit colours.

(full white is #FFF full black is #000)

Yes I set to Green and Blue to ensure I could see the other colours whilst switching themes and check the code is working. This is temporary.

It is definitely possible to do this as the existing code / image works with different colours. Also widgps also does this, using grey, orange, green. I'm just trying to change the image to a fuller one that is easier to see.

i struggle sometimes with the transparency stuff as well with the convertor

Somtimes it seems to work without issue and other times it just seems to be a major session of trial and error.

I'm trying to upgrade widhrt with a better icon.

I'm using the imageconverter at:
https://espruino.github.io/EspruinoWebTools/examples/imageconverter.html

I wanted to use a full RED heart when the HRM is on, and then White or Black when Off depending on background. The existing image works fine except it uses grey when off and the image is quite delicate and hard to see, my original choice - not so good.

So I have downloaded a new image of a full red heart on a transparent background.
https://icons8.com/icons/set/heart

I am just struggling to get the color fill to work. No matter what options I seem to choose from the
imageconverter I either just get a RED heart or a white heart on a black background.

File below
and code below.
What am I doing wrong ?

(function(){
  if (!Bangle.isHRMOn) return; // old firmware
  var hp = Bangle.setHRMPower;
  Bangle.setHRMPower = () => {
    hp.apply(Bangle, arguments);
    WIDGETS.widhrt.draw();
  };

  WIDGETS.widhrt={area:"tr",width:24,draw:function() {
    g.reset();
    if (Bangle.isHRMOn()) {
      g.setColor('#f00');     // on = red
    } else {
      g.setColor(g.theme.dark ? '#0f0' : '#00f'); // off
    }

    // 3 bit rgb, no options, just red heart on black all the time
    g.drawImage(atob("FBQDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEgAAEgAAAkkkgEkkkAEkkkkkkkkgEkkkkkkkkgEkkkkkkkkgEkkkkkkkkgEkkkkkkkkgEkkkkkkkkgAkkkkkkkkAAEkkkkkkgAAAkkkkkkAAAAEkkkkgAAAAAkkkkAAAAAAEkkgAAAAAAAkkAAAAAAAAEgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"), 1+this.x, 1+this.y);
    
    // 3 bit rgb, transparency:Y, background follows theme, but wont fill with color
    //g.drawImage(atob("FBSDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABJJAAJJAAAJJJIBJJJAAJJJJJJJJABJJJJJJJJIBJJJJJJJJIAJJJJJJJJAAJJJJJJJJAABJJJJJJIAAAJJJJJJAAAABJJJJIAAAAAJJJJAAAAAABJJIAAAAAAAJJAAAAAAAABIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=="), 1+this.x, 1+this.y);

    // 3 bit rgb, transparency:Y, transpareny to color Y, just shows white all the time
    //g.drawImage(atob("FBSDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB//wAP/wAAP//+B///wAP///////wB////////+B////////+AP///////wAP///////wAB//////+AAAP/////wAAAB////+AAAAAP///wAAAAAB//+AAAAAAAP/wAAAAAAAB+AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=="), 1+this.x, 1+this.y);

    // 3 bit rgb, transpareny to color Y, black background, white heart
    //g.drawImage(atob("FBQDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH//AA//AAA///4H///AA////////AH////////4H////////4A////////AA////////AAH//////4AAA//////AAAAH////4AAAAA////AAAAAAH//4AAAAAAA//AAAAAAAAH4AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"), 1+this.x, 1+this.y);
    
  }};
})();

@bkumanchik - would you be able do support for the dark theme in Invader. It only seems to suport light them.

Its looks to me like 3 buttons is a popular ask. I have to say I much prefer the 1 button design that changes on context eg launcher, back, reset

I'm not convinced inner peace is possible even when your kids are grown up there still worries :)

Was thinking Breakout would be a good game for the BJ2. I'm not thinking of doing it but thought I would put it out there.

Proper engineering stuff, impressive.

This looks very nice and very different.
Can you post a link to your app loader so we can try it out?

This looks very nice and very different.
Can you post a link to your app loader so we can try it out?