Apple Watch companion

[erik-sutton95]

Apple Watch companion, in the spirit of OpenZCine’s wrist remote: rec tally, remaining time, battery, and start/stop without pulling the phone.

There is no WatchKit target, WatchConnectivity, or Wear module in this repo. docs/ROADMAP.md lists Wear / Watch as Later. Settings “Watch” today means the link-health band 50–79, not a watch.

Related: Android parity (Wear can follow) · roadmap index

Operator problem

Phone is in a cage or pocket; the operator still needs rec, timecode, and a dead-man’s battery read.

The watch cannot join camera SoftAP itself. The iPhone remains the radio. WatchConnectivity only works while the phone app is running (or with a narrow background budget).

Workstreams

1. iOS Watch app (first)

• watchOS target via XcodeGen (ios/project.yml) — do not hand-edit the generated xcodeproj
• WatchConnectivity: phase, rec state, elapsed/remaining, camera + phone battery, timecode
• Record / stop with the same confirmation pref as the phone
• Always-on / always-on rec tally if the watch supports it
• Complication: rec + remaining
• App Group / companion bundle IDs, usage strings
• Prove on a physical Series watch while the phone is on Pocket SoftAP (BLE to watch is independent of camera Wi-Fi)

2. Wear OS (later, Android parity)

• Only after the phone Android session is operator-ready
• Do not copy OpenZCine Wear blindly; Pocket has no PTP-IP

Out of scope

• Watch joining 192.168.2.1
• Independent BLE to the camera from the watch
• Control of gimbal from the Digital Crown in v1 (nice follow-on)

Done when

A Watch app on the same App Store / TestFlight family can start/stop rec and show tally while the iPhone is the Pocket radio. Wear is a follow-on issue, not a blocker.

[erik-sutton95]

Tracked as maintainer task #101.