Watchmaker Wiki - tips

backup

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 19:01:59 +0000

Backup your Watchfaces For whatever reason you need to uninstall the Watchmaker app and then reinstall it, you might want to backup your faces. There are two main ways to do this. * Export each face - then backup the .watch files. After you reinstall the app you can simply import these files to use the faces again. This step requires you do each face one at a time for both export and import.

batterymeters

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:01:52 +0000

Analog Battery Meters Examples Via Rotation: Rotation: 3.6*{bl} (0% @ 0ᵒ to 100% @ 360ᵒ – diminishing Counterclockwise) Rotation: (1.8*{bl})+180 (100% @ 0ᵒ to 0% @ 180ᵒ – diminishing Counterclockwise) Rotation: 1.8*(100-{bl}) (100% @ 0ᵒ to 0% @ 180ᵒ – diminishing Clockwise)

burnprotection

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:05:36 +0000

Avoid Burn-In and deal with the Screensaver If you're using a watch with an OLED display like the LG Watch R, Android Wear uses a mechanism to avoid burn-in when the watch is dimmed. The dimmed display will shift a few pixels every minute. This means you should not place important information at the most outer border of your watch face. At least not in dimmed mode. Instead move it about 10 pixels off the border.

calendarmanip

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:54:40 +0000

Manipulating Calendar Data Adding all your calendar information together and making sure the name of the event isn't too long: "{c1b}" .. string.sub('{c1t}', 0, 10) .. "{c1l}"

calendarmargin

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:23:29 +0000

Event-Durations as Margin Markers The goal is to display a little border on a round watch face to mark the duration of the next 3 events. This technique is used in my Agenda Watch Face. This page describes the basic technique only for the margin visualization only. You can of course combine it with other agenda features like actually displaying the events.

dynamiccolor

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 19:32:06 +0000

Changing Color Dynamically Examples Change Color When Event is Approaching {c1bp} <= ({dtp}+(1/24)) and 'FF0000' or 'FFFFFF' Gradually Transition Color As Battery Drains, From Green to Yellow to Red {bl} > 66 and string.format('%.2x%s',(100-{bl})*255/33,'FF00') or {bl} > 16 and string.format('%s%.2x%s','FF',({bl}-16)*255/50,'00') or 'FF0000'

feelslike

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:58:44 +0000

Adding a "Feels Like" Temperature A “Feels Like” or “Apparent Temperature” can mean many different things, but typically, it's Actual Temperature, modified by Wind Chill or Heatindex, as appropriate. Okay, so why do we have separate Wind Chill and Heatindex pages then? Why not just have this one page?

flashingtext

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:39:27 +0000

Flashing/Alternating Text or Graphics Ever want to display flashing text? How about a battery indicator that flashes when the battery drops below 20%? Or, maybe you'd like to show weather and date in the same space? Here's how. All example formulas are designed for the

forecast_days

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:45:28 +0000

How to Calculate Forecast Days If you want to add the weather forecast to your watch but aren't sure how to get the day names correct, use the below examples for days 1-5. This uses the {ddw0} tag to calculate the next 5 day names. Example Day 1 {ddw0} +1==1 and 'Mon' or {ddw0} +1==2 and 'Tue' or {ddw0} +1==3 and 'Wed' or {ddw0} +1==4 and 'Thu' or {ddw0} +1==5 and 'Fri' or {ddw0} +1==6 and 'Sat' or {ddw0} +1==7 and 'Sun'

getstarted

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:22:31 +0000

Getting started The first thing anyone wanting to create a face is: * Install the app Installation * Poke around on the G+ page and facerepo site and find a watch you like or has a feature(s) you like. * Download that face and import it into the WatchMaker app.

heatindex

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:12:32 +0000

Calculating Heatindex The heat index (HI) is an index that combines air temperature and relative humidity in an attempt to determine the human-perceived equivalent temperature—how hot it feels. The result is also known as the “felt air temperature

measuretest

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:18:51 +0000

Measuring and Alignment Help Sometimes it's not easy to properly align things on your watch face or you might have trouble creating a certain image in the right dimensions. The following transparent image can help you with that. Simply download it to your phone, add an

movehands

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:55:11 +0000

Smoothly Move Analog Hands from Current Time to Zero (12:00) and Back This tutorial will allow you to smoothly and realistically move the analog hands of a watch face to the 12:00 position (zero) and back to the current time, through the use of a tap action. In this scenario,

okgoogle

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:55:23 +0000

Get rid of OK Google So you designed a beautiful watch face but that ugly “OK Google” message always obstructs the view? This message comes from Android Wear and can not be removed by Watchmaker. However you can get rid of it: * Make sure your watch is active (bright mode)

quotesinstrings

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:19:28 +0000

How to deal with apostrophes and quotes in strings Examples string.sub('{c1t}',1,15) string.sub("{c1t}",1,15) string.sub([[{c1t}]],1,15) Apostrophes, Quotes, and Braces (Oh, my!) Dealing with strings is usually pretty straightforward. However, in LUA formulas, you're often mixing these strings with mathematical or string manipulation functions that require the use of some sort of string identifier. Most people use apostrophes (single-quotes) or quotation marks (double-quotes) for this. L…

realistically_moving_shadows

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:42:50 +0000

Realistically Moving Shadows Most analog watch faces created in WatchMaker have static shadows attached to their watch hands. The down side is, that like this the shadow will always stay on the same side of the hand, regardless of the position of the watch hand. A real shadow, though would always stay on the side away from the light source. Luckily it's really easy to create

refresh_age

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:25:36 +0000

Calculate Time since last refresh Since the {wlu} tag is in 24 hr format we need to do some manipulation to figure out how long ago the last refresh occurred. Example ('{dh23}'=='0' and (string.sub('{wlu}',1,2)=='23')) and (string.sub('Updated ',1,8))..(({dm}+60)-(string.sub('{wlu}',4,5)))..' min ago' or'{dh23z}' > (string.sub('{wlu}',1,2)) and (string.sub('Updated ',1,8))..(({DM}+60) - (string.sub('{wlu}',4,5)))..' min ago' or(string.sub('Updated ',1,8)..{DM} - (string.sub('{wlu}',4,5)))..' m…

start

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 04:53:25 +0000

Tutorials and Recipes This page lists various recipes to help you achieve awesome effects in Watchmaker. Many of these tips make use of advanced expressions in the Lua scripting language. To better understand how these work, it is recommended to familiarize yourself with

tapcolor

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 05:16:05 +0000

Changing Color Through Tap Action A feature that's becoming more and more common, especially with paid watches that can't be edited, is the ability to change the color of an item or items on your watch face via tap action. This tutorial will explain the most efficient method for doing this. We'll be using arrays, so you're going to need version 3.4 (or higher) of WatchMaker to pull this off.

tempmeters

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 22:06:22 +0000

Analog Temperature Meters Building a temperature dial is quite simple. Presuming that you already have an image for your scale, the first thing you will need to know is which temperature is displayed at the top of the dial. This is where Watchmaker begins its calculations. Then you must know how many degrees (rotation) your degrees Centigrade or Fahrenheit are apart from each other.

textshortening

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 05:36:26 +0000

Shorten Long Text Examples Limit event text to 18 characters string.sub('{c1t}', 1, 18) Show ellipses after shortened event text string.format('%-.18s%s',string.sub('{c1t}', 1, 15), string.len('{c1t}')>18 and '...' or string.sub('{c1t}',16,18)) Show event time with shortened event text and ellipses when needed

tickertext

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 27 May 2015 13:55:18 +0000

Scrolling (Ticker) text without masks WatchMaker doesn't (yet) have a scrolling text function, so if you want to scroll text, you have to get creative. The most common way is to use a normal text object, and animate the “Position X” attribute. The problem with this is that you have to animate it such that it the start and end points have to be offscreen (or behind some higher-level mask). If only there were a way to scroll text without a mask

tomorrow_s_day_of_the_week

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:53:11 +0000

You can get day name for tomorrow (and and other day after that) by inserting the inserting the following formula into the watch script and calling it when needed function dwplus(daystring,n) local days = 'SunMonTueWedThuFriSat' local found = string.find(days, daystring) local new = 1+((3*n + found-1)%21) return string.sub(days,new,new+2) end

unzipit

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 02 May 2022 01:24:05 +0000

Copy Assets from one Watch Face to another Let me preface this with “I'm not writing this for people to steal others work.” Currently you can download any unprotected WatchMaker file to use on your watch and customize it. There is no feature that allows you to copy from one face to another. So without having to recreate the wheel, here is the steps you can use.

weatherage

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 21:08:16 +0000

Indicate the Age of the Last Weather Update Having the current weather conditions show on your watch is nice, but how do you know that they're actually... you know... current? Here's one way to quickly indicate that, without taking up a lot of space.

windchill

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:59:23 +0000

Calculating Wind Chill Wind-chill is the perceived decrease in air temperature felt by the body on exposed skin due to the flow of air. So this tells you how cold a day “feels”. Examples Fahrenheit Text: ({wt}>50 and {wt} or {wws}<3.1 and {wt} or math.floor(35.74+(0.6215*{wt})-(35.75*({wws}^0.16))+(0.4275*({wt}*({wws}^0.16)))+.5)) .. "ᵒF"