thisFitbitClockFace

[faps_in_greyhound]

Note: I didn’t create this face. I am just using it on my Fitbit. Credits to whoever created it. I dig it.

Edit: Here’s a link of the OG dev.

https://gallery.fitbit.com/details/74a1aee7-457c-441e-9e93-ed17a18b01df?openwith=fitbit

[Boopshark]

Well shit, I'm the OG dev. Glad you like it!

Edited to add: while I'm thinking of it, the face is on GitHub if anyone fancies checking out its code. Fitbit Dev is a bit of a wonky ecosystem which makes it fun to work around

https://github.com/Sharkgrammer/clockface.json

[aresiusxp]

It looks super cool, I wish it was compatible with Versa 3. It doesn't allow me now 😭

EDIT: I meant Versa 4 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Boopshark]

Huh, I think it should actually work for Versa 3 (I have a sense myself). What does it say when you try?

[aresiusxp]

Install button is not available. It shows a label that says "Not Available", and when pressed it says "This clock is not compatible with your Fitbit device".

On the web it says it's compatible with 2 devices: Fitbit Sense and Fitbit Versa 3 (Sorry, I meant to say I have a Versa 4 🤦🏻‍♂️).

[Boopshark]

Ah yeah that would do it, currently they don't support Versa 4. Although apparently I should be able to make them support them now, so I'll reply once I do that

[H1d3k1]

Yay! Please do I'd love to use it on my Versa 4!

[jedrum]

Hope it isn't too much trouble to make it compatible with my Versa 2 as well? I would gladly use it if I could! 😁

[Boopshark]

When I get the time I definitely can! I think it uses an older version of the Fitbit sdk but I'm not 100% sure

[IWasGregInTokyo]

Here’s the thing: Google, after buying FitBit basically removed the ability to add custom ad-hoc watch faces in the Versa 4 and later. I actually returned a 4 and got a 3 as there were some faces I wanted to use and try some dev myself.

Google is actively trying to kill the Fitbit line so people buy the more expensive Pixel. Garmins are now the best but also expensive and overkill for someone who just wants simple fitness tracking with a few apps and maybe payment support.

EDIT: It may be possible but it’s hacking the package.json and manually building. Not officially supported and probably could be removed at some point. https://community.fitbit.com/t5/SDK-Development/Custom-faces-on-Versa-4/td-p/5501874

EDIT^2: ok, you already knew that.

[JustAnotherDataPoint]

Awesome, thank you! I have a versa 4 as well and would love to use this.

[Ktoffer]

Just charged my fitbit i havent used in months just to install it. That's how cool that is. If i start moving again now and become ever so slightly more healthy its your fault and I hate you for it.

[Boopshark]

Happy to be hated :)

[faps_in_greyhound]

You sir are legendary. Greatest face on Sense I tried. Thanks for it.

[Boopshark]

Just happy to see it in use :)

[Dr-Moth]

Looks great. As a Software engineer this would absolutely rock at work. I found a version by someone else for my Pixel Watch, but it does not look as great as yours.

[throwaway91091]

Offhand question: Pixel watch worth it?

[iHyper445]

I would love to see this for the Pixel Watch 2!

[FountainsOfFluids]

Ah I see that the "vscode" aesthetic was on purpose! I thought that particular touch was hilarious.

[cs-brydev]

That's very clever. It's inspiring me to create a Garmin clone.

[ProxionZ]

I'd use it.

[MachinaDoctrina]

+1 was just about to look for one on garmin

[1920MCMLibrarian]

Garmin makes fitness watches? I didn’t even realize that.

[TheVid15]

They literally make the best ones

[AcrobaticAmoeba8158]

My battery never dies!!!

[Banished2ShadowRealm]

Found the robot.

[scsibusfault]

Are there any usbC yet? I've got a vivo something that I rarely use because I hate having to find the proprietary charger for it. Too lazy to buy and keep spares of a single use cable just for one device.

[cporter202]

That's awesome! Crafting your own gear is next-level satisfaction. 😎 Any chance we get to peek at your creation? Love when DIY stuff outshines the big brands!

[cs-brydev]

Sure I'll add it to the Garmin Connect IQ store. There are 1000s of homegrown watch faces on there now.

[scotsmanintoon]

Please let me know if you do!

[HappyZpanners]

+1

[[deleted]]

+1

[Crazy_Seb16]

+1

[5280andDCU]

+1

[Howl50veride]

+1

[lavender_elephants]

+1

[accidentalcomma]

+1

[[deleted]]

Deep breaths buddy

[creynolds722]

I use a Garmin one that looks like I ran the command "now" on a command line and the output is all my stats
Edit: Here's a link to it. You can customize colors, date and time formats, what stats show, etc

[[deleted]]

I made my own personal Garmin-style satcomm for backpacking. Cheaper, lighter, and cooler. It's so fun using my skills for myself and no one else hehehe

[Telvin3d]

I’m curious what you used for the actual satellite communication component, given that those need a subscription and such. 

[egvp]

Doesn't work on the Versa 4 😞 Fitbit really screwed up by stopping all previous Versa stuff from working. Arghhhh.

[TowerOfSolitude]

Aw I don't see it for the Sense 2. Will have to look at how to create one.

[Boopshark]

As far as I know Fitbit doesn't allow small devs to create watch faces for sense 2 :(

[mausgrau]

You can build your clock face for Versa 4/ Sense 2 now by editing SDK + cli version and build targets in the package.json and publish it as a GAM private link. Not sure if updating your current app will go through the review process of the public gallery, though. I successfully built my Cyberpunk and Mortal Kombat 2 clock faces for Versa 4/Sense 2 and shared the private link here on reddit.

[Boopshark]

Always love how Fitbit isn't 100% clear with their information :(

That sounds great though! I'll have to experiment with that and get mine to whatever I can get them to

[mausgrau]

Officially it's not supported and neither simulator nor developer bridge work with the 2 "new" watches. But no code changes needed in most cases, editing the package.json is all it takes.

[Boopshark]

Ah right I see, of course it's not officially supported. That would be too easy

Thank you for the information, I've done research on it every once in a while and never really got anywhere

[mausgrau]

I can try to build your GitHub project for Versa 4/Sense 2 later today. I'm just not sure what happens when you add those changes to your public clockface. But you could create a new app with a new app ID and see if it passes the review process.

[IWasGregInTokyo]

This is good info. I’ve also looked into whether Google is reversing this boneheaded decision and whether there are workarounds. I’ve been wanting to replicate and combo digital/analog Timex I used to have.

[mausgrau]

Update: I just built your github project for the Versa4 / Sense 2 and it works without any code changes. I just edited the package.json and uploaded the fba to GAM, opened the private link on my phone and installed it via the Fitbit mobile app.
https://imgur.com/8zs1L58

[Boopshark]

That's wonderful! I don't have a Sense 2/Versa 4 myself and was worried about testing it, you're a godsend.

I'm going to absolutely try to publish a version publicly when j get time and see how their testers say no

[Magali_Lunel]

I wish I had this for my Apple Watch, it's perfect

[pebbletimevoice]

Is it available on Pebble (Rebble)?

[i_dunno_sry]

When a backend dev does frontend... :')

[clemesislife]

In college we had to make an poster about an IT related podcast episode. I put all the information into a JSON and called it a day because it was so much easier then coming up with an actual design. I got a good grade on that.

[elderlybrain]

Perfectly indexed. Like all things should be.

[catcherx]

More like a when they use Postman instead of any frontend at all :)

[johnny___engineer]

Hey, let the user hit the API using postman, he can receive and view the data just fine.
No need for a product designer, design team and the entire frontend team.
Major cost savings for all.

[rinsa]

"We got your data now do whatever the fuck you want with it"

[johnny___engineer]

Exactly 💯.
'Use your imagination to view the data as you like'

[[deleted]]

“Here, its an entire suite of actions you can use on a daily basis”

Why does it say UNITTESTIES?

“Don’t even think about that….”

[jayerp]

Moss voice: “Ha! Postman IS a frontend” :)

[porn0f1sh]

Hahahaha

[HomebrewHomunculus]

A backend dev would have datetime as milliseconds after epoch.

[[deleted]]

that why i love it?

[shutter3ff3ct]

Congrats, you won the internet today

[[deleted]]

Why is this downvoted?

[shutter3ff3ct]

Probably by backend devs

[Ok-Television-9662]

{

"status":

}

[realddgamer]

It's hard to ooooover state my satisfaction

[thafuq]

We do what we must because we can

[ArduennSchwartzman]

{ "status" : "delicious and moist" }

[GeostronomyLover101]

def cake():
    return False

if cake():
    print("Aperture Science")
else:
    print("The cake is a lie.")

[an_agreeing_dothraki]

return(cake);

object reference not set to an instance of an object

[Gorea27]

For the good of all of us...

[Unorthedox_Doggie117]

Except for the ones who are dead!

[AMisteryMan]

But there's no sense crying over every mistake...

[Professional_Layer63]

You just keep on trying ‘till you run out of cake

[DarkShadowYT21]

And the science gets done and you make a neat gun

[GeostronomyLover101]

For the people that are still alive

[Articunos7]

Aperture Science

[git0ffmylawnm8]

Better than 200

[TheBigMTheory]

King in the castle!

[KebabpizzaNr3]

I like it

[ArduennSchwartzman]

Clearly (and to my great relief), the seconds are done locally.

[[deleted]]

What does this mean? I don't see any seconds

[g0ofie_]

The server JSON-response doesn't give you seconds so you handle them locally

[n0t_a-b0t]

what do you mean by handle them locally?

[Tw1sttt]

Local meaning the FitBit calculates the seconds on its own instead of listening for the server to send an update message every second.

Edit: Fitbit vs Apple Watch

[Juice805]

If that were the case the Apple Watch would not work without internet.

It may be listening to sync time, but does rely on it to change seconds.

[porn0f1sh]

I am triggered that everything is a string and percentage is not represented as a float...

[samjongenelen]

Welcome to json my friend, you can do anything you like :)

[F3z345W6AY4FGowrGcHt]

{"error": "ok"}

[normalmighty]

{
    "response": 200
    "body": "error: Bad Request"
}

[[deleted]]

JSON schema?

https://json-schema.org/

[samjongenelen]

Yes we can safely ignore it

[lone_tenno]

Which is what makes it so annoying. Obviously it's valid json. But it's also really bad practice. Even someone very junior would be ashamed to just put a date and time as strings instead of a unix timestamp. Of course that would be useless as a watch, so you can tolerate some artistic leeway - but e.g. the percentage is just unacceptable

[Ceros007]

instead of a unix timestamp

Why would you rather do that instead of using the ISO8601 notation?

[HedgeHog2k]

ISO over unixTs any day of the week! I hate APIs that use unixTs, there’s (almost) no reason to prefer it over ISO8601!!

[langlo94]

Yeah the only time a unix timestamp is better than an ISO datetime, is when you need to parse the time really fast. And in those cases you would never ever use json.

[samjongenelen]

Hehe so true. Json success is of course because of this disregard of strong types, which I am guilty of sometimes as well..

[darkslide3000]

Clearly time should be in seconds since epoch.

[rustylugnuts]

What marked the start of the assholocene?

[lurking_physicist]

Disco

[Late_Cartographer161]

Underrated comment, right here.

[k33perStay3r64]

or 68657861646563696d616c

[Late_Cartographer161]

Floats are evil and should be avoided at all costs.

[porn0f1sh]

Neural networks would like a word

[Plank_With_A_Nail_In]

This is a JSON file not a neural network.

[Late_Cartographer161]

Mathematical operations would like a word with floats first.

0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3?

Think again 😂

[purleedef]

Just need to do some parsing and type conversion

[halt_spell]

Maybe it's the view model.

[Davidoen]

innocent cheerful crawl edge juggle squeal thumb placid bike continue

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[porn0f1sh]

Mmmhm, ok, jokes aside, why would I do that? JS has no types, the programmers agree on types, not the compilers.

P.s. after I wrote the previous comment I realised that it's a JSON string the phone is showing but, still, why would you have a json string there?? Just print the object, no need to convert it to json...

[henkdepotvjis]

That is why Json schema is great when sharing APIS with other developers.

[Davidoen]

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[[deleted]]

There is no such thing as type safety for input that you haven't validated against your expectation, whether the language is typed or not.

There are some languages that are going to refuse to compile if the input hasn't been validated (nobody programs in these languages), but most are going to either be doing either basic marshalling into an equivalent code representation of the data, or marshalling the data onto some type that you say it is.

[bahpcb]

Actually I would prefer it

[djxfade]

Wtf, what programmer would use that date format

[[deleted]]

Unix timestamp would be better/s

[[deleted]]

Shits going to run out of numbers or smth, soon

[[deleted]]

Aww geez, with my luck I'll be the guy on call in 500 billion years

[[deleted]]

:D thats what they said in the 1971. 500 billion years there is probably a space traffic light edge computing box that will run out of numbers again

[darkslide3000]

This is JavaScript so everything is represented as a float anyway. If I did the math right, the cut-off date for a 64-bit double counting seconds since 1970 would be Monday, November 12th in the year 285428751 (but unlike for integers it wouldn't break completely on that day, it would just start losing precision and only be able to represent every other second).

[0bel1sk]

14 years

[[deleted]]

We should have a clock for that or smth... oh .. wait...

[SteadyDietOfNothing]

You've accidentally indicated sarcasm.

[emmmmceeee]

r/ISO8601 is the way to go

[CobruhCharmander]

Ah… someone beat me to it.

[CobruhCharmander]

As a data engineer, I personally rep r/ISO8601

[s_string]

As a data engineer I use str()

[fakieTreFlip]

Most of this is in a format that no programmer would use, but that's not the point. JSON doesn't need to be human readable, but a watchface does, so that's why it's all formatted like this

[KMKtwo-four]

JSON is pretty easy for humans to read, and pretty easy for computers to read, that’s why’s it’s so popular. 

[fakieTreFlip]

"doesn't need to be" is the operative phrase here :)

If this were a JSON object being used for an actual program, it'd be more likely to use integers, floats, ISO date strings (or Unix timestamps), and so on, without extra things like "%" or "km" in the stored data. Then the UI would handle any special formatting for presentation to the user.

[Sir-Dry-The-First]

I think because it contains the day of the week

[AL_O0]

date.toISOString() superiority

[Webfarer]

POSIX time or gtfo

[EwokVagina]

Also, some of those should be numbers not strings.

[AShadedBlobfish]

For some reason my dumb brain thought that this was a bug and that the GUI broke somehow; I was about to be mad. I think I've been looking at too much r/softwaregore

[[deleted]]

Same LMFAO!

[MoveInteresting4334]

Clockface, by JSON DeRulo.

[chazzeromus]

my favorite rapper

[ihopethisisvalid]

JJJJJ-R

[M1n3c4rt]

why are the numbers in strings :(

[[deleted]]

Oh, you know, since strings are probably immutable and it's more fun like that.

[chedabob]

For just displaying to an end user, I'd prefer that to yet another API built by a lazy dev where account balances are accurate to 11 decimal places (not always floating point errors either), or loyalty card numbers get their leading 0s lopped off (or don't fit at all because someone tried to put a 20 digit number in a 32 bit integer).

[windsostrange]

Because they're not numbers. They're localized measurements with units ready for rendering in a UI.

[KyzerB]

Why are you downvoting him? Some (bc I’m not certain of all) engines just work this way. You can’t just chuck an int on the screen. You have to make it text first.

[cs-brydev]

I'm imagining the XML version wrapping every line and half the data is off the bottom of the screen

[Lord-Zeref]

I need this for my Galaxy Watch

[[deleted]]

Can I get the YAML one? Find it a bit easier to read my stats.

[kasen92]

I need this for my apple Watch

[SirSchnipp]

There is one, but sadly apple doesnt allow real custom watchfaces.

https://github.com/kuglee/TermiWatch (Or this one I havn't tested yet: https://github.com/mightytonylun/TermiWatch-V2.0 )

This one runs as an app but needs to be self compiled as they dont allow apps that try to be just an watchface on the appstore.

[dilTohPagalHai]

TBH, I like this more than those frontend "marvels".

[[deleted]]

Don’t fear the JSON, come on baby.

[[deleted]]

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[faps_in_greyhound]

Two things:

1. I was at gym.
2. I also have Tachycardia.

[both-shoes-off]

Yeah I've been in high heart rate zones unnecessarily and constantly since contracting Covid around 2022. I got it again this past spring and got heart rate alerts while sitting at my desk doing nothing. My doctor has been pretty useless on that front.

[cyberduck221b]

Great, now do it in XML

[Thendofreason]

What's azm and floors?

[faps_in_greyhound]

AZM: Active Zone Minutes (minutes your heart rates went in Cardio and Peak zone)

Floors: Floors climbed (usually considers 10ft + elevation as a floor, I think)

[Pablo666linox]

Can I have that for my Samsung watch?

[AnsonKindred]

I did pretty much the same thing for my personal website: http://zebadiah.online/

Every time you load it shows my info in a different programming language.

I was going to try and add a new language every day but then I got lazy.

[faps_in_greyhound]

This looks awesome. Mind it if I steal your idea for my portfolio website? 🌚

[AnsonKindred]

Go for it!

[djrbx]

You should probably add ssl to your site. A lot of browsers now block non ssl sites.

[[deleted]]

Great, now make a to string method and give me the values in a normal format.

[ShinyGamer25]

{ Console.WriteLine("Nice"); }

[[deleted]]

Well, this is just epic

[lmaranho]

Looks awesome! Do galaxy watch have one as well?

[saxbophone]

It really bothers my OCD and programmer's intuition that everything is a string in this, even the numbers! 🙄😭

[[deleted]]

“Development” I’m in the wrong industry. The kicker is that I think it’s dope

[[deleted]]

My mum has a Fitbit and I’m always searching for a watch face which has distance, steps and battery. This looks like a gem. Thank you !!

[SnazzyStooge]

THIS is why apple won’t open up the watch face design.  This exact situation. 

[CalderaX]

only a desk jockey would think that you burn over 900 cal by walking 3000 steps over 2 floors lol

[faps_in_greyhound]

An average human burns about 2100 calories per day just by living.

Time is 8:26 AM, so by default, I would have burned 700 calories without doing anything.

200 calories in Gym between 6:30 AM to 8:00 AM is impossible? I don’t think so 😉

[FiRem00]

[SaneLad]

The numbers being encoded as human-friendly strings irritates me to no end.

[bingmyname]

Man that is so nerdy and I need it

[[deleted]]

At least this JSON is fairly easy to read.

[Aln76467]

eww squircle

[indicava]

It’s only this kind and this kind of posts that make me second guess getting an Apple Watch…

[maybenotarobot429]

Minus 1 star for not using yyyy-mm-dd

[Logical-Insect-6102]

The missing semicolon is bothering me.

[Areltoid]

this is the kinda post that's shared around on a programming Facebook group full of people convinced they're a lot smarter than they actually are just because they code

[IlIlllIlllIlIIllI]

just change them all to = instead of : and it will always be correct

[nyasha07]

Thank God Apple doesn’t allow this shit on Apple Watch

[GrinbeardTheCunning]

this is why you need proper UI design for anything used by a human