You may also be interested in the Bangle.js 1 or Bangle.js 2 Hardware reference pages.
You can work along using the Bangle.js online Emulator however you won't get access to the sensors, Bluetooth, or vibration motor!
BLE
and Programmable
are On
to enable programming permanently, and then choose Back
to exit settingsMake Connectable
, select it, and leave Bangle.js displaying on the Connectable
screenSettings
and then tap on itBluetooth
menu item.BLE
and Programmable
are checked to enable programming permanently, and press the button repeatedly exit settingsMake Connectable
, and leave Bangle.js displaying on the Connectable
screenConnect
up the top left of the screenWeb Bluetooth
(if you don't see 'Web Bluetooth' check out the Bluetooth Getting Started Guide)Bangle.js abcd
in the connection menu, and the code abcd
is displayed (by default) in the top right of your Bangle.js's widget bar.You should hopefully be connected now! If not, take a look at http://www.espruino.com/Quick+Start+BLE#banglejs
If you just want to get started and have an Android phone, you can use that too! If you don't have an external keyboard then you might want to install the free 'Hackers Keyboard' app to get access to arrow keys via touchscreen.
Note: If you've used Espruino before, make sure the Upload button (middle of the screen) shows RAM
underneath it. Otherwise by writing to Flash
you can remove the watch's built-in menu (you can just re-add it by removing and installing bootloader
using https://banglejs.com/apps)
The Web IDE is made up out of two parts - there's the black REPL on the left, and a white editor on the right.
The REPL on the left is a direct connection to the watch and executes anything you type immediately - but be careful, it uses bracket counting to detect when to execute, so:
if (true) {
Bangle.buzz();
}
will make your watch vibrate, but:
if (true)
Bangle.
buzz();
With Enter
rather than Alt-Enter
will run three commands, the last two of which will cause an error. If you write your code in a K&R style (with the opening brackets at the end of a line rather than on their own line) then you're unlikely to hit issues - and if you write your code on the right hand side of the IDE, the line endings are handled automatically.
When writing on the right, you can click the button in the middle of the IDE to reset Bangle.js (temporarily!) and upload the code on the right hand side.
You can now try some commands:
First, let's (temporarily) reset the watch and get rid of the connectable window (if you'd had to choose Make Connectable
initially)...
Type:
reset();
on the left-hand side of the IDE. The Bangle.js
logo will be displayed.
Bangle.buzz();
Note: Bangle.js 2 devices do not contain a speaker, but instead use the vibration motor for sound (which is very quiet). So Bangle.beep();
will beep, but extremely quietly.
You'll notice the functions return promises, so you can chain them:
Bangle.buzz().then(() => {
console.log("Done!");
});
You might want to clear the screen, in which case you can use g.clear()
. A
full list of Graphics commands is at: https://espruino.com/Reference#Graphics
If you want to write a message on the screen, you can use E.showMessage
:
E.showMessage("Hello","A Title")
In general, Bangle.js specific functions/events are in the Bangle
object,
and Espruino-specific functions are in the E
object
The screen itself contains a VT100 terminal, so you can use Terminal.print
and Terminal.println
if you just want to log data:
Terminal.println("Hello World")
But these will scroll the screen up, which may make currently running apps look a bit strange!
It's worth noting that when you're disconnected from Bluetooth, Bangle.js will
write any messages from console.log
(as well as any Exceptions) to the display only
if Debug info
is set to Show
in Settings
. This can be a great way of
seeing if your app is failing in unexpected ways when in every day use.
Want to react to user input on the buttons? You can query the button state.
BTN1.read();
Will output true
or false
depending on the state of the button, but usually we don't want to poll because running code all the time would use battery.
On Espruino devices you can use the setWatch
function. This sets up the hardware to watch for a button press,
and calls a function when it is pressed:
setWatch(() => {
E.showMessage("You\npressed\nthe button!");
setTimeout(()=>g.clear(), 1000);
}, BTN1, {repeat:true, edge:"falling"});
This code does work on Bangle.js, but isn't recommended. As you start to do more with your Bangle,
showing menus and responding to touchscreen events, it can be hard to keep track
of setWatch
and other events and disable them when they're not needed. It's also more tricky to account
for hardware differences between devices (Bangle.js 1 has 3 buttons with the middle being BTN2
,
and Bangle.js 2 has just one button, called BTN
/BTN1
).
To work around this, Bangle.js provides the Bangle.setUI
method, which keeps track of your event handlers and disables all the 'old' ones the next time it is called.
The equivalent of the above would be:
function waitForButton() {
g.clear();
Bangle.setUI({
mode : "custom",
btn : ()=>{
Bangle.setUI(); // remove old handler
E.showMessage("You\npressed\nthe button!");
setTimeout(waitForButton, 1000);
}
});
}
waitForButton();
This is a bit longer, but it is easily extendable to add other handlers, for instance for touch
events.
At this point the code's getting longer, so you might want to copy this to the right-hand side of the IDE and then use the Upload button...
The right-hand side of the IDE is a syntax-highlighted editor with code completion (press Ctrl-Space for suggestions). To send the code you have written in the editor on the right to Bangle.js you must click the upload button:
This preprocesses the code you wrote, loading any modules you included with require(...)
, and
the uploads it to Bangle.js. The destination is written underneath, and can
be changed either by pressing the down arrow, or by going to Settings
and Communications
:
RAM
- you should normally try and use this - it writes nothing permanently
to Bangle.js so is quick and safe to develop with.Flash
- DO NOT USE THIS ON BANGLE.JS because you will
overwrite the existing Bangle.js bootloader with your own app (if you do, you can re-install the bootloader
app using https://banglejs.com/apps).Storage
- you can use this to select a file on Storage to write to. This
is great for developing your own apps - see Bangle.js: First ApplicationYou might want to check out:
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