Bangle 2 JS Apps

I finally got around to looking a bit closer at my Bangle 2 JS today. I had some other things on my to do list so I've only loaded a few new clock faces today and looked at some apps. But so far, I'm happy with it.

I've had the thing nearly a month, and haven't had to charge it since initially charging it. I charged the Bangle and my Watchy in unison to compare them. I really thought the Watchy would win, but that died a few days ago and my Bangle still had about a third of it's battery left - that said, I am only using it for the time and step counting, I've turned the heart rate monitor and Bluetooth off. Still, for doing the same tasks as the Watchy, in terms of battery it would seem as though the Bangle 2 JS was an upgrade for battery life.

I adjusted the flags on Chromium to allow Web Bluetooth and added a few new watch faces. Namely a Pebble style watch face, and the same analogue face I was using on the Watchy (it was my favourite face). I had set up the Watchy to scroll through modes: analogue, digital with date, and a step counter. The Pebble watch face I went with (a non-customisable one) actually shows that's date and steps, so the two birds with one stone (or should I say one pebble?). I looked at a multi watch face that I might be able to use to scroll between the two faces without opening up the settings menu - I had used the same method on the Watchy, using someones multi face code, someone elses analogue face, and a few faces I made myself for the remaining modes. For now I've uninstalled the multi face app as it comes with a load of faces that I didn't really want.

I think next I will explore the Espruino environment and see if I can make the adjustments I want, and explore a bit of the watches inner workings. I'm hoping I can set up a travel mode, that will adjust the time based on a user provided time offset for different timezones, which I had planned to add to my Watchy as a fourth mode before one of it's buttons broke. Watchy will live in a drawer for now, in case something goes wrong with my Bangle, at which point I will try to adjust the firmware so that it can run on the 3 remaining buttons without issue.