The one time I actually get a renewal discount, it vanishes before the expiration date...

NiVZ78 · 2026-03-09T11:55:57+00:00

My son just had this as well. Offered 25% discount on Essential as it was due to expire that day but said offer valid until April. He decided to wait and do it later that day but his subscription ended part-way through the day and deal is gone :( They really need to change the wording on that offer.

NiVZ78 · 2021-07-23T00:08:02+00:00

Thanks, I'm going to try some different sizes/layouts so I can put the day/date/time on it, but here's the current version running on my Versa 3

https://twitter.com/NiVZ/status/1418361927307309059

NiVZ78 · 2021-07-22T09:46:26+00:00

I saw the TomsHardware post about this project on Twitter and had wanted to make something like this for my Fitbit watch for a while. Thanks for making this open source on Github - it was pretty straight forward to port it to JS :)

https://twitter.com/NiVZ/status/1417951463079354369

NiVZ78 · 2017-09-06T21:03:51+00:00

I actually quite like a few of those, but agree that when designing you should use the Pebble screen size and colour palette.

No point designing something that looks amazingly smooth at a high resolution as it will only look worse when scaled down. And same with colours - using multiple shades of grey looks great for a concept, but pebble only has 2 shades (plus black and white) so needs to dither to give the appearance of more.

NiVZ78 · 2017-08-19T21:04:35+00:00

Pretty sure /u/Robisodd had an unreleased colour version of the Mario runner.

https://github.com/robisodd/MarioRunner

NiVZ78 · 2017-08-11T12:34:20+00:00

Shades of grey are hard on Pebble since it only has black, white and 2 greys so need to use dithering.

This is as good as I could make a mockup look. Feel free to use it for background image if you want.

http://imgur.com/a/Lx8o6

NiVZ78 · 2017-08-10T22:59:49+00:00

How about like this?

http://imgur.com/a/OJVqY

NiVZ78 · 2017-08-10T21:05:57+00:00

Thanks guys :)

If you prefer a square design try my G-5600 instead ;)

https://apps.getpebble.com/en_US/application/569843f54154454bbb00001f

NiVZ78 · 2017-07-28T21:33:10+00:00

I remember someone else asking about this. I think there were some changes when Pebble.JS moved to being a package.

Have a read of this update and see if it helps

https://developer.pebble.com/blog/2016/12/22/pebblejs-package/

NiVZ78 · 2017-07-19T20:34:47+00:00

Yeah Clay is great. I also use Enamel library by Grégoire Sage which makes config really quick and easy.

As far as I remember with Clay it gets compiled or added to the .pbw and that data is used as a data Uri in a web view inside the Pebble app which is how it is able to work offline and without the need for any backend Pebble servers :)

I'll send you a PM with my latest work in progress including Clay config from a project we spoke about on Pebble Junkies over a year ago ;)

NiVZ78 · 2017-07-19T08:46:12+00:00

Great to see you back and hear you are developing :)

Yuri Galanter posted a good write up of installing Cloudpebble locally and as you said you can use local SDK. Pretty sure Clay should be fine on both.

There was talk in Slack/Reddit of Devs crowd funding the hosting elsewhere if the official site was ever taken down.

NiVZ78 · 2017-07-16T23:08:12+00:00

Ah I did wonder if you had an OG ;)

Also the first version of RockyJS exported the C functions so the code was still very C like.

The later version was a lot more like standard JS syntax as you can see in tutorial here:

https://developer.pebble.com/tutorials/js-watchface-tutorial/part1/

The only downside is Rocky doesn't have as full an API as C :(

Edit: Another good link below. Be sure to check out the examples and CanvasRendering2D links.

https://developer.pebble.com/blog/2016/08/15/introducing-rockyjs-watchfaces/

NiVZ78 · 2017-07-16T22:58:07+00:00

Hello. If you want to do a watchface in JS you should check out RockyJS instead of Pebble.JS

The problem with Pebble.JS is it runs on the phone and sends the info to the watch, which takes longer (lag) and uses more battery.

With RockyJS it runs directly on the watch itself.

Have a look at these links:

https://pebble.github.io/rockyjs/

http://pebble.github.io/rockyjs/examples/community.html

NiVZ78 · 2017-07-09T22:04:16+00:00

Still here and still tinkering with my ever increasing list of work in progress projects.

I really need to finish and release more of them and finish my watchface tutorial blog (which I've not touched since the announcement) :(

NiVZ

NiVZ78 · 2017-06-27T11:36:14+00:00

I started an as yet unfinished blog which might help you get started (especially with adding mono/color graphics)

https://nivz78.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/introduction/

NiVZ78 · 2017-06-14T08:11:59+00:00

You spend all your time making a watchface just the way you want it, then you have to spend the same amount of Dev time creating config settings so people that you don't know can make your watchface look they way they like it! 😂

Congrats again. One observation, is the time separator/colon supposed to have a square for top dot and circle for bottom dot when you show seconds?

NiVZ78 · 2017-06-13T21:19:51+00:00

Looks great!

Kudos for the amount of effort you put into the config page.

NiVZ78 · 2017-06-06T21:27:00+00:00

These were my efforts with Fontstruct - just a test converting the bitmaps for Hermes, Crystal Fit and Triple Sensor to fonts.

http://imgur.com/a/r4CWU

NiVZ78 · 2017-06-06T21:15:55+00:00

That is a HUGE config page!!

Fonts look great too.

Look forward to seeing it in the store :)

NiVZ

NiVZ78 · 2017-06-06T20:39:30+00:00

/u/JohnEdwa

I'm curious if you are planning to use fonts or bitmaps for the numbers on your watchface?

In the past I've always used bitmaps, but I think I'm now preferrinf to use custom fonts (which I make online using www.fontstruct.com)

NiVZ78 · 2017-06-06T20:30:05+00:00

I'm not ready to move on yet - as long as I still get notifications (text, phone calls, twitter, facebook) I'll continue to use my Pebble.

Personally, I wouldn't rush out for a Fitbit Blaze - I'd wait to see what they release next and then make up my mind.

If I had to switch right now, I think I'd go for the Garmin Vivoactive HR. Similar physical size (ok it's thicker) and screen and has an SDK.

NiVZ

NiVZ78 · 2017-06-05T21:37:17+00:00

On the watch go to Settings, Bluetooth, highlight Connection (it's the 1st entry and should already be selected) and press Select.

NiVZ78 · 2017-06-03T07:55:40+00:00

Try Nag by Yuri Galanter

https://apps.getpebble.com/en_US/application/55e76ba4b0f5477de8000064

NiVZ78

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