Dot Matrix display

Squirrel

@Nikolai-Simonov said in Dot Matrix display:

Just created my minimal watchface inspired by led matrix displays.

Really nice retro style. When you sync the watch with the app, is it deleted from the watch and replaced with generic one?

Strulian

@Nikolai-Simonov this looks awesome! How did you make it?

Nikolai Simonov

@bobbyfw03

i build it with suunto’s vs code extension. currently there isn’t a menu item like a “create watchface”, but you can create it manually.

@Squirrel yes it live from sync to sync. However, I’ve figured out that figured out that i can’t upload it in suuntoPlus store yet

sebchastang

@Nikolai-Simonov said in Dot Matrix display:

@bobbyfw03

i build it with suunto’s vs code extension. currently there isn’t a menu item like a “create watchface”, but you can create it manually.

Do you mean you have built a “real” watchface or is it a suuntoplus app which displays a watchface during an activity?

Nikolai Simonov

@sebchastang said in Dot Matrix display:

@Nikolai-Simonov said in Dot Matrix display:

@bobbyfw03

i build it with suunto’s vs code extension. currently there isn’t a menu item like a “create watchface”, but you can create it manually.

Do you mean you have built a “real” watchface or is it a suuntoplus app which displays a watchface during an activity?

“real” watchface of course

sebchastang

@Nikolai-Simonov Thanks for your confirmation! I am really interested in designing custom watchface. I hope Suunto will release official documentation soon.

Arnaldo Rodriguez

@Nikolai-Simonov This gives me hope that we would be able to create custom watch faces soon. !!

Arnaldo Rodriguez

@nikolai-simonov Any chance you can email me the code for that watch face so I can better understand how to start working on these. And try to create one myself !! My github is arodriguezgb and my email is nalrodriguez.ar@gmail.com.

its been a while, I only work with Flutter nowadays, but I want to give it a go.

Manuel Extreme

I saw that in the SuuntoPlus Editor extension library there are also watch faces, but… how do you compile them?

Thibault B.

You (and Suunto and their anniversary watch face font) gave me some inspiration and I’ve been working on one as well
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Thibault B.

@Nikolai-Simonov How have you done? A sync with my phone deletes it

OutdoorMan

@Thibault-B. yes, this is also written somewhere, that if the app is not officially in the store, it gets deleted after every sync.

Thibault B.

@OutdoorMan I know that for apps, but Nikolai was saying that watch faces were not deleted by sync.

Squirrel

@Thibault-B. said in Dot Matrix display:

I know that for apps, but Nikolai was saying that watch faces were not deleted by sync

I haven’t seen him saying that anywhere.
But it is an inconvenient constraint. Ideally there would be a setting or flag for the S+ apps and personal watchfaces, that would make them persistent through syncs, thus would not require publishing into Suunto app store.

Thibault B.

@Squirrel Sorry, I thought that’s what he meant by “yes it live from sync to sync”.

Horizontal_2

@Thibault-B. Amazing! It’s beautiful.
What is the battery drain? And can you also make a beautiful AOD?

Would love to see that upper ring to be toggled between sunset/sunrise and weather!

On the down room for complications. I always like to have 3 or 4.

EDIT: Maybe I’ll have to try this myself. I graduated as an engineer (but never became one). I couldn’t get started with the Suunto College clips. Does someone have a way for a flying start? (I’d like to try this when my training will be less in May)

Mff73

@Thibault-B.
And others.
I am not developer, but remembered that in old android app versions, there was an option not to sync S+app

Maybe time and place to ask why it was removed

Thibault B.

@Horizontal_2 Thank you.

Here’s a photo of the AOD display: it’s the same layout as the main watch face, just dimmed. Keep in mind that my phone captures a lot of ambient light, so it appears brighter in the picture than it actually is.
Battery drain: I’ll keep an eye on it. Right now it’s dropping quickly, but I’ve spent most of the day developing SuuntoPlus apps and watch faces and constantly testing on my watch, so that’s probably a big part of it.
Upper ring: It uses the standard Suunto complication layout. You can choose between Sleep, Resources, Steps, Calories, Training Time, Moon Phases, Rain, Battery Level, or Blood Oxygen. Of course you could create your own complications and be even more creative compared to reusing what Suunto provides (benefit of using Suunto’s is that it can be changed in the settings).
Complications: You’re right that more could be added. This version is intentionally focused on simplicity and open space. I also felt that horizontal complications looked cleaner. I could experiment with smaller ones placed side by side.

Horizontal_2

@Thibault-B. said in Dot Matrix display:

horizontal

Amazing! Well done.

If low battery drain matters to you: you might change the number into outlined characters. I think it’s one of the reasons the vector causes battery drain. But maybe it’s preset.

But I’m not judging. I’m hyped one can make their own watch face.

Thibault B.

@Horizontal_2
I don’t mind a small hit if I have something more readable. I was not fully satisfied with Suunto use of outlined characters in some watch faces. Although I totally get the idea to save battery. But thanks for the suggestion and tip!