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Backlight

Richard Johnson

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Watchapp
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Description

Simple program to automatically control your backlight. It sits in the background, allowing you to use whatever watch face you like. When you raise your arm to look at your watch, it will automatically turn on the backlight for 5 seconds. If you need to turn it back on again, just turn your wrist away and back again! The program has the ability to schedule a start and a stop time, however there is currently a bug in PebbleOS which prevents background wakeups from happening in some cases. Once this bug is fixed, I'll verify the functionality and upload a new version. Note, that PebbleOS only allows one background ("worker") task at a time. If you are using a program which counts steps, etc., and is thus running in the background, then you can't use this program at the same time.

Most menu items are pretty clear, but the "Responsiveness" item isn't, so here's a description trying to describe what it does:

The background worker task already reads only 10 accelerometer events per second, which is the slowest allowed. This new menu items allows the wearer to program the number of samples which are collected before the callback is called. Thus, it allows programming of the responsiveness of the backlight in 1/10th second increments. Presumably, calling the callback less often should save power at the expense of response time. You be the judge of what you want!  Menu allows configuration such that light may be set to be always on while charging.
  • DeveloperRichard Johnson
  • CategoryTools & Utilities
  • Platformsaplite, basalt, chalk, diorite, emery
  • Updated2016-09-06
  • Version2.1
Backlight - Pebble Appstore