#PebbleOS - Left Handed Mode

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thick bluff
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Hey y'all, I'm writing a feature that will let you rotate your watch's screen 180º to allow for better use on the right wrist. Personally, I've always preferred pressing Up/Select/Down with my index fingers as opposed to hooking my thumb around the watch.

As far as progress goes, I currently have a working solution, however, it still needs polishing! I'd like to get this feature built for all watches, and currently it's only working on P2D. I've seen a handful of people ask about this feature, and although I haven't had much time to work on it lately I figured I'd post updates here when I can. No ETA as of right now, sorry!

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^ Some photos for now, I’ve also set up a Quick Toggle as I change wrists quite frequently

dim falcon
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It's the RIGHT wrist for wearing watches, so this feature will be most welcome. 👍

thick bluff
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Haha I've been making do with my left wrist for the time being

dim falcon
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All my life, I've had to remove watches from my right/correct wrist in order to set them.

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Wearing a watch on my left wrist is like wearing another person's prescription glasses.

chilly bramble
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Would this preserve back on the left and select on the right or is it a full 180 flip?

thick bluff
dim falcon
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So, to clarify, you're saying is, Top - Middle - Bottom will function the same as Top - Middle - Bottom for left wrist orientation. Yes/No?

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We all know the singular button will go from Top to Bottom, and we accept it.

thick bluff
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Ah I made a typo, I meant Up/Select/Down will remain together. Sorry!
So the three buttons will be physically on the left side of the watch after rotating 180º, however, they will be flipped so that the button towards the top of the watch is still Up... etc

dim falcon
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That's more or less what I meant. Whatever functionality is on the Top for left wrist will be on the Top for the right wrist, and so on. Good work!

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I presume this will be in the Settings page of the Pebble app.

thick bluff
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No, at the moment the setting will live under Settings > Display on your watch. I've also written a Quick Launch toggle so that you can change the setting quickly from your watchface

dim falcon
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As much as I appreciate your effort, I don't think you need to put time into a Quick Launch toggle. I've never met anyone who switched wrists for their watches. This is a set it and forget it kind of setting, like AM/PM vs 24hr time.

thick bluff
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That's understandable. I mostly wrote that in for myself, it took maybe about five minutes to add and there are moments where I change wrists frequently.

dim falcon
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Next thing to do is get the hand gesture graphic to be a mirror image too. 🤙

dim falcon
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In main.c, I made this change, which fixed the problem:
OLD: app_message_open(app_message_inbox_size_maximum(), app_message_outbox_size_maximum());
NEW: app_message_open(1024, 1024);

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The OLD code works just fine in the 10-year-old watchface.

thick bluff
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Wrong chat? 😅

fresh vale
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Subs!

dim falcon
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My apologies

thick bluff
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I think, for the time being at least, the first PR for this will be Asterix-specific

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Not that it makes that much of a difference anyways, considering there aren't any plans to update any legacy watches atm

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But I've just started looking into the accel/gyro/compass logic as that will need to be flipped when the watch is rotated as well

dim falcon
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Old Pebbles are selling for double to triple their new price on fleaBay now, and have barely usable batteries at best.

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It seems every Pebble developer is trying to buy them at the same time to assure backwards compatibility.

cunning timber
# dim falcon Old Pebbles are selling for double to triple their new price on fleaBay now, and...

I've personally noticed that this is the opposite (Although quite a lot of the listings are around this price) the, last I checked classic pebbles were going in the hundreds but I recently managed to get a pebble classic for a pittance of that amount - £18.99 and I've also noticed a few similarly priced pebbles. Perhaps the prices are going down with the advent of the newer pebble watches.

thick bluff
mossy sinew
dim falcon
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I'm excited for this feature. You need a beta tester? I'm 100% right wrist when it comes to watches.