Is it possible for a device watch face to play a sound or vibrate?

3649079 over 2 years ago

Currently the simulator displays this error.

Is a special permission required?

Error: Permission Required Details: Module 'Toybox.Attention' not available to 'Watch Face'

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3649079 over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58 +1

Gosh, that's a serious limitation.

What can do those things, device apps only?
jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to 3649079 +1

I posted the list of app types that can use Attention.

No tones/vibrations can be done in watch faces. Been that way since CIQ 1.0. Allowing it has come up a number of times since then and it won't change…
peterdedecker over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58 +1

As you may know I've said before Jim, this is also a non argument, if they are (truly) afraid of misuse it's easy to implement restrictions by time / duration / amount of times per day.

But I don…

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0 3649079 over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

jim_m_58 said:
The Attention Module is not available in watch faces.

Presumably things like button detection or screen touches are also not available to watch faces?

0 jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to 3649079

There are some things for this with System 6/Ciq 4.2 with complications

0 dududu13 over 1 year ago

I was looking how to make a vibration on watchfaces, and have read the differents posts. Many of us would do this, but Garmin product manager don't want because of battery.

I could suggest to Garmin do something like seconds in watchfaces with partialUpdatesAllowed and onPowerBudgetExceeded(powerInfo). They could perhaps desactivate vibrations after 50 per day ???? That could be a good thing

Thanks

0 FlowState over 1 year ago in reply to jim_m_58

3649079 said:
Presumably things like button detection or screen touches are also not available to watch faces?

jim_m_58 said:
There are some things for this with System 6/Ciq 4.2 with complications

To elaborate on this, watch faces for CIQ 4.2 devices (which support complications) can receive the WatchFaceDelegate.onPress() touch event, which is triggered by a long press.

It's intended for launching complications, but I don't see anything that prevents a dev from doing whatever they want with it.

And no, watch faces cannot detect button presses.