ZeppPlayer

Unofficial ZeppOS emulator.

This application can run ZeppOS apps & watchfaces in your browser. Useful for homebrew development, faster and more flexible than the official ZeppOS Simulator, but a bit less compatible.

• 💿 Binary download
• ❤️ Make a donation

⚠️ Main ZeppOS device, which is used as prototype of emulation, is Xiaomi Mi Band 7. So work of any other isn't guaranteed for now.

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Features

• Preview ZeppOS apps and watch faces into browser
• Faster than official simulator, easier to install
• State editor: set custom time, date, activity, etc. values for preview
• Watchface GIF generation
• Ability to use Chrome debugger to debug your watchface/application
• Already converted (TGA) images support

Limitations:

• ZeppPlayer can't run watchface/app with bytecode-compiled JavaScript sources (eg app.bin/index.bin files)
• May work buggy in Firefox
• No support of side-service and settings-app APIs, only ZeppOS device behaviour is implemented
• Not full compatability with ZeppOS APIs

Currently supported ZeppOS devices: all.

Installation and basic usage

Grab binary build here or build your own one, and run application. Your browser will be opened automatically.

Now, just unpack your ZeppOS app/watchface archive into projects folder near player, refresh page, and you'll see them into project picker in top-left of application. If you can't write files into that folder, or can't find them, you can change projects location from application.

ArchLinux

You can build & install ZeppPlayer with AUR script: yay -S zeppplayer.

Build from sources

Linux

Recommendations:

• Connect NodeSource repository to get fresh nodejs

Install dependencies, for Debian\Ubuntu:

apt install nodejs python3 python3-pip make python3-venv python3-gi python3-requests python3-tk \
    python3-pil libgtk-3-0 gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1

# NodeJS dependencies
npm i

Then, select one of options bellow

Option 1. Make and install debian package (for Ubuntu/Debian)

You also must install debcompat-helper build-essentials packages.

dpkg-buildpackage -b
sudo dpkg -i ../zeppplayer*.deb # Install (optional)

Option 2. Make and install

Most common installation way.

make
make install # Install (optional)

After that, you'll be able to find player in apps menu.

Option 3. Run directly from source code

️⚠️ Not recommended for common use, requires too much disk space. Better to use some package manager or make/make install.

Just run ./start.sh in that folder.

Windows (10-11)

Dependencies:

• NodeJS 16+
• Python 3.10+
• A lot of dependencies for node-canvas
• (optional) the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables (to reduce output binary size)

If you have Chocolatey, you can install all of them with one PowerShell command (run as administrator):

choco install visualstudio2022buildtools visualstudio2022-workload-vctools `
  python311 upx nodejs gtk-runtime libjpeg-turbo

Build progress. All commands written in PowerShell syntax, Python version 3.11 is used:

1. Grab sources from here, open PowerShell in this folder
2. Install NodeJS dependencies: npm i
3. Create virtualenv: python3.11 -m venv venv
4. Activate virtualenv: .\venv\Scripts\activate
5. Install Python dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Try to build a binary package with script: python make_release.py
7. Output binary will appear in dist folder

macOS (11+)

Install a pack of dependencies from homebrew:

brew install pkg-config cairo pango libpng jpeg giflib librsvg node python@3.11 python-tk@3.11 upx

Build progress.

1. Grab sources from here, open terminal in this folder
2. Install NodeJS dependencies: npm i
3. Create virtualenv: python3.11 -m venv venv
4. Activate virtualenv: source venv/bin/activate
5. Install Python dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Try to build a binary package with script: python make_release.py
7. Output binary will appear in dist folder

Build via Vagrant virtual machines

⚠️ This build method is mostly useful only for publishing of new releases, but you can also try them if no one of above works on your OS.

⚠️ Build for all platforms at one requires a lot of RAM, est. 6 GB should be free

You'll need to install Vagrant and VirtualBox. Then, grab this sources and open shell into tools directory. Then, do vagrant up to build for all platforms, or vagrant up make_macos|make_win32|make_debian to make for one only.

If you want to automatically halt machines after build, use vg_auto_halt=true env parameter, example: vg_auto_halt=true vagrant up

After processing, build binaries will appear in tools/output folder. You could open VirtualBox manager to access created machines and test binaries, if needed. Didn't forget to stop all of them (vagrant halt), or remove them to free disk space (vagrant destroy -f).

Contributors

• MelianMiko: Main developer
• Игорь Худяков: Better SmartBnad7 overlay mask

License

ZeppPlayer - ZeppOS simulator
Copyright (C) 2022-2023 MelianMiko

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.