# Dymaxion 0.8.0
The face speaks your language. Dates, the calendar, panel titles and messages
are drawn in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish,
Turkish, Indonesian, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, Simplified and Traditional
Chinese, Japanese or Korean, in the watch's own pixel lettering: accents on its
capitals, and Cyrillic, Greek and East Asian characters from the open-licensed
Fusion Pixel font. The settings page is translated into all of them, and into
Arabic (right to left) and Hindi, where the face itself stays in English for
now. It follows your phone's language unless you choose another under
**Language** at the top of the settings.
Tides now work beyond the United States. Where there is no NOAA station
within 150 km, the tide panel shows Open-Meteo's modelled sea level for where
you are, with its highs and lows. **Anywhere: modelled tides** in the station
list keeps it at any coastal place you choose. Modelled tides are good for the
shape of the day, not for navigation.
When a long Health heading would run into its right-hand label, it now drops
the heart rate rather than overlap.
# Dymaxion 0.7.1
The color picker in the phone settings and the workshop now offers four
ways to arrange the watch's 64 colors:
- **Honeycomb**, Pebble's own layout, as before.
- **RGB cube**: four small grids, red across and green down, one for each
level of blue.
- **Lightness**: the colors by CIELAB hue, from red round to purple, with
the lightest at the top of each column and the greys on their own.
- **Chromaticity**: each color placed on the CIE 1931 diagram, inside the
horseshoe of pure spectral colors, with the sRGB triangle and the watch
screen's own, smaller triangle.
**As on the watch** still shows every color as the screen renders it, in
every arrangement; in Lightness and Chromaticity the colors move to where
the screen actually puts them. The picker remembers the arrangement you
chose.
The drawing grid for your own place glyph now has square cells, and the
picker's colors keep their shape on phones; the settings page's button
styles had been stretching both.
# Dymaxion 0.7.0
Draw your own place markers. Choose **Draw your own** as a place's map glyph,
and a 5×5 grid appears, starting from the glyph you had. Tap squares to draw.
Your drawing shows everywhere a built-in glyph does: on the map, in the
time-zone panel, and in the strip between the clock and the map.
Place times beside the clock can now show each place's glyph before its name.
Turn on **Icons beside the clock** in the place-time options; it is off unless
you choose it. Built-in glyphs and your own drawings both appear. Where a row
is tight (a 12-hour time with a day offset), the name shortens first, and a
name cut to a single letter is dropped, leaving the glyph to identify the place.
The face also does less work, with every pixel unchanged. A minute tick
repaints only the clock, the top bar and the bottom panel. When the map is
relit, only the parts near the edge of daylight are read and repainted. The
Sun and Moon markers are placed directly instead of being found by searching
the map. Measured in the emulator, firmware included, a relight minute takes
37% fewer instructions and an ordinary minute 10% fewer: about 18% less
over a day. That is a modest battery gain, since the display and Bluetooth
use most of the watch's power.
# Dymaxion 0.6.0
Take the tides with you. With the Tide panel enabled, **Follow current location**
now selects the nearest NOAA station with hourly predictions as you travel.
It checks about once an hour, within NOAA coverage and 150 km of a station.
Choose any station yourself to keep it fixed instead. Old settings adopt the
automatic mode; select **Keep a fixed station** if you want your previous choice.
The map can now show the Moon at the place on Earth where it is overhead,
shaded for its waxing or waning phase. Enable **Moon on the map** in Map settings;
the existing Moon in the top bar remains independent. **Map rotation** also
offers a 180° view, with place labels and symbols kept upright.
The time-zone strip between the clock and map now offers **Compact strip times**.
It uses the same small pixel numerals as the times beside the clock. Leave it off
to keep the existing larger figures; city labels and day offsets remain readable
with spacing adjusted for either size.
Both map options use the existing cached renderer and power-saving intervals.
Moon positions are calculated on the watch, and tides retain their six-hour
prediction cache unless you move to a different station. No continuous GPS,
per-second animation or extra lunar downloads are required.
The city label already follows your phone about hourly when automatic location
is enabled. The main clock follows Pebble's system time; let the phone/watch
synchronize their time zone after travel. Weather, city lookup and automatic
tides need phone location permission and connectivity.
# Dymaxion 0.5.3
This update makes the main clock cheaper to draw, especially during its minute
animation. Each frame now uses a single bitmap draw in place of hundreds of
individual lines, preserving the same pixel-perfect figures and 400 ms flip.
Two default-clock benchmarks used 89–91% fewer instructions, including Pebble's
graphics firmware. All eight numeral styles, custom colors, moving layouts and
Quick View were checked. The change adds only 36 bytes of heap memory, and the
previous renderer remains available if the bitmap cannot be allocated.
These measurements describe clock-drawing work. Actual battery-life gains still
need physical-device measurement.
# Dymaxion 0.5.2
This update reduces CPU work and repeated phone-to-watch transfers while
preserving the face's appearance and its 400 ms minute animation.
- Minute animations reuse their triangle geometry, requiring 57–60% fewer
application instructions in the measured transitions.
- Routine syncs skip data the watch has already acknowledged. In the default
stationary-day simulation, messages fell from 144 to 48. Launch and reconnect
still send the full state, and weather and location checks keep their cadence.
- Weather, humidity and tide updates repaint only the visible bottom panel.
Unchanged packets and updates to hidden panels avoid unnecessary redraws.
- The step indicator reuses recent Health results, and automatic city naming
avoids repeated lookups when the location has not changed.
These are measured reductions in CPU work and communication. The improvement
in days per charge still needs to be measured on a physical watch.
# Dymaxion 0.5.1
The sun on the map is now placed with the Astronomical Almanac's solar
formula, good to about a hundredth of a degree. The previous approximation
drifted up to 0.4 degrees near the equinoxes. The seasons, the day-night line
and sunrise and sunset times were already right to well under a pixel, so the
face looks the same; it is simply more exact, and the watch now uses one sun
for both the map and the panels, which makes the app slightly smaller.
The checkered band along the day-night line now shows civil twilight: it
begins where the sun sets and ends when the sun is six degrees below the
horizon, instead of straddling the line.
# Dymaxion 0.5.0
Place times can now sit between the clock and the map, where the Dymaxion
nameplate goes. Choose Between the clock and the map under Place times
position: each place gets one line of its map symbol, its short label and
its time in the large figures, spread evenly across the width. The
nameplate steps aside while the times are there.
A wireframe icosahedron can sit beside the clock: the twenty-sided solid
seen straight onto one face, the facing triangle in the middle and the
others around it. It fills the side of the screen that Chamfer and the
Pebble fonts leave open. Choose it on the left or right under Beside the
clock. With it on, the clock stays to one side, and place times beside the
clock take the icosahedron's place when they show.
The watch app is smaller: the Broad clock's tile map is stored far more
compactly, which leaves room for what comes next.
The phone app now refetches weather and tides saved by an older version as
soon as it updates, instead of waiting out the old data. The settings page
names the installed version at the bottom.
The previews show sample high and low tide, sunrise and sunset times where
they used to say DEMO. The store listing has a new animated demo and
screenshots, and its description covers what's been added since 0.4.8.
# Dymaxion 0.4.9
After updating to 0.4.8, the tide chart could go on without its high and low
marks, and its header could show only one of the next high and low, for up
to six hours. The phone kept using tide data saved by the older version,
which did not include every high and low. It now fetches fresh tide data
right away when the saved data is from before the update.
# Dymaxion 0.4.8
Quiet Time now shows in the top bar: three small Zs beside the Bluetooth
rune while it is on.
The battery can show as a small battery. Turn on Battery gauge and the
percentage sits inside a battery outline, shaded as far as the charge. It is
off by default. While the watch charges, a bolt takes the place of the %
sign, and at or below the level where animations stop, the battery turns the
accent color.
A new Step line draws a thin line under the top bar that grows with today's
steps and reaches the edge at a typical day's total, from Pebble Health. It
is off by default.
The tide chart marks each high and low tide with a dotted line at its time,
and labels each high tide with its height, over the peak when there is room
and just under it when there is not. The tide header lists both the next
high and the next low, soonest first, each marked with a triangle: pointing
up for high water, down for low.
The weather chart labels the warmest and coolest readings, and a short grey
line marks each sunrise and sunset on the daylight strip. Its header lists
both the next sunrise and the next sunset.
The night saver is now one choice: off, during set hours, during Quiet Time,
or both. Quiet Time no longer needs a set of hours to go with it.
# Dymaxion 0.4.7
Custom palette colors now come from the watch's own 64 colors. The color
fields in the designer and on the phone settings page used to open the system
picker, which offers millions of colors the watch cannot show; the watch then
rounded your choice to its nearest color, sometimes a very different one. Each
color field now opens a hexagon of the 64 colors, laid out in the same order
as Pebble's own color picker. Arrow keys move around it, Enter chooses, and
Escape closes it.
The Pebble Time screen does not show colors the way a monitor does. The
picker has two views: Screen colors, the exact values, and As on the watch,
which shows each color as Pebble measured it on a Pebble Time screen in
sunlight. The same choice appears beside the watch preview in the designer
and on the phone settings page, so you can see a whole face roughly as it
will look on your wrist. The preview only changes how it is shown; the
colors sent to the watch are the same either way.
The watch-color sampling comes from Pebble's Clay configuration library
(MIT license), credited in NOTICE.
# Dymaxion 0.4.6
Times on the map are easier to read. Each one now sits in its own small
clearing, so triangle edges, background dots and leader lines no longer run
through the figures, and the clearing stays put as the minutes change. A new
largest size joins Map time size in Display. When a label cannot fit at the
size you chose, it steps down one size at a time instead of disappearing.
The nameplate now shows under the Broad and Span clocks. Those clocks used to
paint over it; the nameplate is now drawn back on top, including on the
once-a-minute redraw.
Solarized Dark and Sandstone now show the calendar's weekday letters and the
charts' night shading and daylight strip, which were nearly invisible against
their backgrounds.
The stacked hours-over-minutes clock has been retired. Faces that used it
open with the regular clock. The "light the screen, then flick once" panel
gesture is gone too, because it could not work reliably once the light was on.
Faces that used it switch panels with two wrist flicks instead.
The watch preview on the settings page now places map times exactly as the
watch does, and the store description is rewritten in plain language.
# Dymaxion 0.4.5
The bottom tray can now choose its own page. Set Automatic rotation to Smart
and it shows what matters now: the weather when rain is likely in the next few
hours, the tide as it turns, Health while you are walking, the calendar in the
morning, and otherwise your starting panel. A wrist flick still changes the
page, and the page you chose stays for ten minutes before Smart takes over
again. It works from data the watch already has and adds no sensors.
The night saver can now follow your watch's Quiet Time. Turn on During Quiet
Time in Power & motion and, whenever Quiet Time is on (switched on by hand, by
its schedule, or during a calendar event), Dymaxion treats it as night: the map
reshades every other hour and nothing animates. Use it with or without the
saver's own hours.
Pause in the dark now follows the backlight. At night the face holds its last
picture while the light is off, catches up the moment the light comes on, and
keeps the time current for as long as it stays on.
Times on the map now come in five sizes, from the original small figures up to
large and wide ones, under Map time size in Display. Each label still finds
its own open space on the map.
Tall place times, also in Display, makes the three times beside the clock
larger. It is off by default.
Place icons are now a setting of their own, on by default for every palette.
Each place's map marker appears next to its name in the time zones panel. The
day and night mark beside it is now a small sun or moon, so it can no longer
be mistaken for a marker.
The watch preview on the settings page now matches the watch face exactly, and
the page's wording is simpler and clearer.
# Dymaxion 0.4.4
Tide setup can now find the nearest NOAA station for you. Enable Tide or open
NOAA tides in settings: if no station is saved, Dymaxion suggests the nearest
station with hourly predictions within 150 km of your phone. Up to five nearby
choices show their distances, and selecting one fills its ID, short label and
local time zone automatically.
Existing stations stay selected. Use Find nearby NOAA stations to explore
alternatives, or keep using coastal presets and custom station details. Choose
the station that best fits your waterway, then Save to watch.
The lookup runs during phone configuration and reuses the shared low-power
location fix. It adds no watch-side polling or sensors. Without location access
or nearby NOAA coverage, manual selection remains available.
# Dymaxion 0.4.3
A new blue-and-amber faceted globe identifies Dymaxion in the watch's face
selector. It is drawn directly on a 25×25 pixel grid, with a transparent
background and native Pebble colors for crisp edges.
The icon is bundled into the watchface itself and adds no ongoing drawing or
sensor activity. Your layout, palettes and settings stay as you left them.
# Dymaxion 0.4.2
Panel gestures now allow time for your wrist to settle: the default two-flick
gesture accepts a second flick within two seconds, up from 0.9 seconds.
There is also an optional **Light the screen, then flick once** mode in
**A window on the day → Panel gesture**. Wake the backlight normally, pause
briefly, then flick once to change the bottom panel. It listens for motion
only while the light is on and the watchface is visible, without continuous
accelerometer sampling or a timer to poll the light. Your existing gesture
choice is preserved.
The night saver's paused display now refreshes on any backlight wake, including
a screen touch or button. Pebble currently reserves touchscreen input for
watchapps, so screen taps themselves cannot change a watchface's panels.
Gesture bursts, settings changes, leaving the watchface and clock adjustments
are guarded against accidental or stuck changes. Physical wrist sensitivity
still depends on the watch's motion detection.
# Weather where you are
- Weather now defaults to your phone's current location and time zone, alongside the main clock. Temperature, rain, humidity and daylight use the same forecast location.
- City naming and weather share a cached, coarse location fix. Weather works even if city-name lookup is unavailable or your clock caption is entered manually. No continuous location tracking is added.
- If permission or connection fails, valid cached weather is marked OLD; another city's forecast is never silently substituted.
- Saved-city forecasts remain available as an optional override, with sunrise/sunset times in that city's time zone.
Existing preferences are preserved. After updating, open **A window on the day → Weather & humidity → Forecast location** and choose **Current location**, then save to the watch. Allow location access for the Pebble phone app.
# A world of places, easier to make your own
- A redesigned phone settings page with a pixel-perfect watch preview, day/evening samples, palette swatches and clear, expandable sections.
- Search for a city, choose the right region, and fill its coordinates and time zone automatically. Suggested short labels remain editable. More than 50 saved cities are available offline.
- City search is also available in the web workshop. Your chosen glyphs, custom colors and saved settings carry forward.
- A warmer introduction to the Dymaxion map, Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao.
- Automated release checks now build and test both the website and native watchface before publishing a version tag to Pebble and GitHub.
Open Dymaxion’s settings in the Pebble app after updating. Your existing watch layout and preferences are preserved. Search needs an internet connection; previews and saved cities work offline. Preview weather and device readings are examples.
Initial app-store release for Pebble Time 2: live Dymaxion map, world clocks, configurable panels, 25 palettes and optional animations. Includes verified fixes for panel transitions.