Disabling automatic display on for hand movement?

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Posted at 2019-12-29 by BrainFooLong

Hi!
Received my beta watch a few days ago.
Great watch, i like the design.

But one thing i want to change is the automatic display on when i move my hand.
I want display on/off only with buttons, not with hand movement.

Is that possible?

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Posted at 2019-12-29 by AkosLukacs

I guess it's coded in C firmware, so you would have to modify it there.
If so, create a setting for that to enable automatic LCD power on, and send a PR :)

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Posted at 2019-12-29 by BrainFooLong

Well, thanks. But i can't code C. So hopefully someone will read this here and implement that feature :)

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Posted at 2019-12-29 by Robin

Sun 2019.12.29

Could an adaptation be done with 'Gestures?'

forum post Gestures, standard and/or userdefined

Gordon had something similar detailed in a workshop:

https://github.com/gfwilliams/workshop-nodeconfeu2019/blob/master/step4.md

Modify, override a Bangle event?

https://banglejs.com/reference#Bangle

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Posted at 2020-01-03 by BrainFooLong

@robin As far as i can tell, this feature is really hardcoded in the firmware itself.

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Posted at 2020-01-03 by @allObjects

@gfwilliams, could that "when to power display" become something configurable / (or) controllable by installed apps / pluggable module from the application space?

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2020-01-07 by @gfwilliams

Hi - there's a Bangle.setLCDTimeout function (https://banglejs.com/reference#l_Bangle_setLCDTimeout) - if you set the timeout to 0 then the LCD will not automatically light up when Bangle.js is moved (nor will it turn off automatically). You could then add code to use Bangle.setLCDPower to control it manually.

But yes, that's a total faff. I'll file an issue to add something to Bangle.setOptions to provide more flexibility (espruino/Espruino#1738)

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Posted at 2020-01-07 by BrainFooLong

Thanks @gfwilliams