TTGO T-Watch 2020 New Firmware in PlatformIO

I was going to make another video addressing comments from the various TTGO T-Watch 2020 sketches around time zones and time setting. But I stumble instead into this new TTGO T-Watch 2020 firmware update. Of course they use PlatformIO in Visual Studio Core to apply it. So here we go down the road of another programming interface. Watch to see how it turns out!
TTGO T-Watch 2020 ESP32 Programmable Watch Playlist.
The latest factory firmware is made by:

[ShotokuTech]

TTGO T-Watch 2020 ESP32 Programmable Watch Playlist.
I have certainly enjoyed playing with this gadget. Inexpensive, yet feature packed, it is well supported with many example programs.

[briankumanchik]

Thanks for your videos, I do appreciate them!

[Wodkakos]

Thanks for your videos on this watch, I've got the watch already so your vids really help me get more out of it.
- I set the screen rotation the correct way up by setting unit32_t rotation = 0 to unit32_t rotation = 180 in src\hardware\display.h (approximately line 37)

After I changed that I then found a way of access the menus for settings etc.
On the main screen, swipe from right side of screen to the left and this access the APPS page, currently mine shows the weather app only.
Then swipe from bottom of the screen to the top and this shows the settings menus.

You can set your wifi access point ssid and pw here.
Also it has correctly set my clock (United Kingdom at the moment is daylight savings on Universal Time Coordinated) so when I select daylight savings time box and set my timezone to UTC +0 it's correct - very happy!

For the weather app to work you'll need an api from openweathermap.org - I had to setup an account but you do get a free api.
You'll also need your longitude and latitude too - which I got from google maps.

[dannicholson]

Thanks for posting these videos. I'm trying to decide whether to buy one and this is really useful to understand how much work will be involved. Good luck with it!

[miker]

Thanks for the update. I’ll stay away from this one until they work out the bugs. Please keep the excellent videos coming!

[AurielPhoenixArt]

"Of course, I am not gonna read the instructions!" Made my day. 😂🤘

[hlektrikos]

You are awsome, mate, you make it seem so simple. Great.

[briankumanchik]

I can't get it to work, I've tried a dozen times, sad how poorly this thing is supported! :(

[CyberchuckTX]

I haven't loaded the PlatformIO VSCODE yet on my main machine but will soon. I've been muckin' about with the PictoBlox stuff (see other videos by Jeff on this) and so far so good.

[johnvermillion]

Got mine a couple weeks ago and the best I've been able to do before this is the SimpleWatch sketch. This was SO HELPFUL!!! Looking forward to seeing what kind of integration with my smartphone I can pull off with bluetooth. Hope you are able to do a feature on say sending the caller ID for an incoming call from Android to t-watch. No call control, just display information on a push basis to the watch.

[YoussefYoussef-ioyc]

Hello, I have a watch v3, please. I forgot the password. How can I restart or...

[TheDigitalAura]

Upside down for me too, can't see anything anywhere to define the watch type. I discovered if the watch type is incorrect it will display the wrong way up.

[YoussefYoussef-ioyc]

Hello, please, I forgot my password. How can I restart it?

[CyberchuckTX]

So did anyone get the full functionality running as described by the screenshots?

[AurielPhoenixArt]

😂I am kinda happy my watch can only track the time and count my steps. This all looks so complicated for laymen.

[nordjyllandregnskab]

Thanks for very informative and good video. I have followed your instructions, and I got the same result. Now I want to upload example sketchers from Arduino, but the watch is not reconized !!! Hope for some input on this issue, thanks Jens

[BHives]

OK, all this work and effort to tell the time. What are the hidden surprise features this watch will really do. Does it have an oscillating, reverberating, auto-erotic feature too? You have patience and perseverance, I would find the camera feature, turn it on, flush down the toilet, and hope the man at the sewer treatment was grinning when he found it. In the mean time, , , I would wear a Fred Flintstone Sundial with a built in compass. :)

[MeTube]

You need to switch the WiFi on in the setting before it will see the local SSIDs

[ShotokuTech]

Makes sure to wait for everything to load and don't validate PlatformIO, just upload the image once everything has settled.

[erickkill]

Hi, I was able to log into the weather app from these instructions.



To configure the wifi, just slide the screen from bottom to top (and when a "note" background writing appears), slide to the side.
It worked perfectly for me!