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How on Earth do you configure WiFi/Bluetooth/etc?

Open sterlingphoenix opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

I'll admit that I'm absolutely not an arduino expert, so I'm stumbling around in the dark here.

I have no idea how to configure wifi or bluetooth. I was able to load a new watch face, and through that I found SOME wifi settings in config.h, but I have no idea how to make the Arduino IDE actually, you know, do anything with that. I see that this project uses WiFiManager but that's also not very helpful.

There are a lot of other things hardcoded into config.h that would be nice to change.

I do see some issues asking similar questions, but no actual solutions, so... can we get some docs on this?

sterlingphoenix avatar Jul 29 '21 03:07 sterlingphoenix

When you press the menu button (bottom left), you get to a menu which has a “Setup WiFi” option. Selecting this will drop the watch into an AP mode (Watchy AP), that you can connect to. It runs a lightweight web server where you can choose one of the available access points, and enter the key, to connect to.

OTOH, I don't think there is actually a functional Bluetooth support at the moment.

shtrom avatar Aug 03 '21 11:08 shtrom

This is likely obvious to others, but it wasn't to me -- you need to use another device, like a phone, to connect to the wifi signal the Watchy is sending. You do that in the settings of the phone, choosing the Watchy as the wifi. It will pop up a sign-on sheet, where you can enter the SSID and password you want the Watchy to connect to.

joetechie avatar Aug 15 '21 13:08 joetechie