{"id":1284,"date":"2026-03-15T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2026-03-15T06:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:28:42","slug":"a-javascript-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/a-javascript-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Javascript Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/banglejs.com\/\">Bangle.js 2<\/a> watch is a really nice watch. It is not billed to be as good as the popular branded smart watches. But from where I&#8217;m sitting, it is every bit as good. It looks lovely. It has all the features you&#8217;d expect of a smart watch. And it is Open Source and hackable. And it now has its own app. What more could you want?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting started is really easy. The <a href=\"https:\/\/banglejs.com\/start2\">Getting Started<\/a> page is very straight forward but is everything in a nutshell. But there is a really nice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aoNray1iuBM\">unboxing video<\/a> which tells you a few things you might not find out otherwise, so I do recommend it. More info and a some troubleshooting tips on their <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/espruino\/BangleApps\/wiki\">github page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bangle.js GadgetBridge<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I have an Android phone. I know nothing about iOS, sorry, but I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s along the same lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quite a few of the pages on the website refer to installing the <a href=\"https:\/\/gadgetbridge.org\/\">Gadgetbridge <\/a>app. This is an app for connecting any device to the smart phone. If you look at their Gadgets page, you will see they support over<a href=\"https:\/\/gadgetbridge.org\/gadgets\/\"> 300 gadgets<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you look under <a href=\"https:\/\/gadgetbridge.org\/gadgets\/wearables\/banglejs\/\">Bangle.js<\/a>, you will see they recommend using a different app for Android. Enter <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.espruino.gadgetbridge.banglejs&amp;hl=en-US\">Bangle.js Gadgetbridge<\/a>. There is far too much information for a noob on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espruino.com\/Gadgetbridge\">GadgetBridge for Android<\/a> page, but you may need it if you have trouble connecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Would I Buy it Again?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Absolutely. It is pretty, simple to use and gives me the two things I want &#8211; steps and weather. Oh and it also tells the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bangle.js 2 watch is a really nice watch. It is not billed to be as good as the popular branded smart watches. But from where I&#8217;m sitting, it is every bit as good. It looks lovely. It has all the features you&#8217;d expect of a smart watch. And it is Open Source and hackable. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/a-javascript-watch\/\">The full story here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,77],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-projects","category-watches","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snersbots.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}