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I know that Xiaomi phones have pretty aggressive battery saver settings, or at least mine does anyway.

Have you set the GB app on your phone to have no restrictions set on the battery settings?

Oh nice! I'll definitely check that out when it's up. I do wonder what other stuff people may have developed with their Bangles that exists outside of the apps within the App Loader

Yeah, I think you are right. Wake/unlocked are interchangeable in that settings menu so I think it doesn't matter. I suppose what I meant to say in that statement was that if unlocking/waking the screen is only enabled via BTN1 for someone, then it may not be advisable to use a single press to act as a shortcut to anything.

That's a great suggestion and a very valid point about the button wear and tear. I still would prefer to activate somethings via hardware buttons but, if it improves the lifespan of the device then maybe that's something I need to accept and start to prioritise the touch screen.

That's a great watchface! I think I need to experiment with creating watchfaces and perhaps make my own that does something similar to yours. Shame it's not been released into the wild, I bet a lot of people would be interested in using something like that!

I was thinking about how I used to like having physical button shortcuts to some applications on my Pebble and how that could possibly be added to the Bangle JS 2.

One thought I had was to potentially add the ability to press BTN1 x number of times to launch a particular application. E.g. press 2 x for Messages, 3 x for Quiet Mode App etc.

This would likely only make sense while on the Clock screen as other apps may require presses of BTN1 for certain functions. Also, the first press of BTN1 would likely be reserved for unlocking the device (unless screen is always unlocked I guess).

I know the Pattern Launcher exists and it really is brilliant but sometimes it is more convenient to launch apps from a physical button than having to unlock first and then do a pattern.

I was mucking around in the web IDE and created a simple click counter detector for BTN1 using setTimeout functions but I wasn't sure how to apply it to the rest of the watch so that awareness of the initial unlock with a single press was respected and that when inside other apps it was ignored. Likely something for someone else to look at until I have a better grasp on the system as a whole.

I reckon you have hit the nail on the head!

Just had a thought regarding the month number being incorrect. I have a feeling that Javascript dates work from a 0 index for the month field when you use something like date.getMonth() (i.e. January = 0, February = 1 etc.) that might be why December is being displayed as 11 instead of 12

With regards to the inflated step count values, this is something I came across too when using the Gadgetbridge app on the Bangle 2. If you switch to using the Android Integration app then instead of the GB app then it should report more accurately

Edit: Link to my post http://forum.espruino.com/conversations/370644/

Ah cool, glad to hear it's not just me! I'll try the Android app and see how I get on. Cheers.

My Bangle 2 reports that I have done 6k~ steps but in the GB app it states that I have done more than 30million steps! Not sure why these values are so wildly different. Any ideas?

That sounds excellent @Gordon. I was beginning to experiment with creating a menu system utilising the Launcher style of display to try and make more "user friendly" menus. Just need some time to mess around with it that I hope I will find soon. But either way I imagine whatever you implement will be far superior than what I end up making ha!

That's awesome, thanks @Gordon! I'll give that code a try

Thanks @Gordon, I could disable vibrate but won't that disable it for notifications as well? I might be misunderstanding that setting. Ideally I would like haptic feedback off but notification vibration on

I may be missing something obvious, but is there a way to turn off the haptic vibration that occurs when navigating through the menus?

I've dug around the settings and cannot seem to find an option. Would be nice to have a toggle and even nicer if it were to respect the "Quiet Time" setting

Thanks for the reply and clearing that up for me @Gordon. I just noticed yesterday that the FS notifications app comes with GB, should of realised that before!

I'll keep an eye out for any future updates and when the Android and Messages apps are in full use and for now I'll keep using the FS ones. Thank you!

Thanks @HughB, I've checked that page and I have installed the Wave and s7clk clocks and neither have helped. The battery status is being reported by GadgetBridge but I cannot seem to get notifications to work without the full screen app being installed.

I weirdly did get some notifications to appear on the Messages app but they were very infrequent and the controls barely responded.

Is it a requirement on Bangle 2 to install full screen notifications app? If not, how do you have yours set up to allow for the notifications and, for example, getting the music controls to work?

Got my Bangle JS 2 a couple of days ago and am very happy! Thank you for creating such a great and exciting product :)

There is one thing that I am struggling to understand at the moment though. I do appreciate that this area of functionality is very much in the beta stages but how do I actually configure notifications to come through onto my bangle?

I have tried a few combinations of the apps available on https://banglejs.com/apps but I am struggling.

I'm using GadgetBridge so I have that app installed on my bangle (I'm guessing this is essential). That app alone does not seem to trigger notifications to appear on the bangle so I have tried some of the other notification apps to get it to work.

The only app that I have found to make notifications appear on my bangle is the "Fullscreen Notifications" app. Without that, no notifications come through to my bangle.

I have also tried the "Android Integration" and "Messages" apps

Am I doing something wrong/silly? How have you guys got notifications to work?

Thanks.