Amazfit Watch faces

This is probably a dumb suggestion, but have you tried loading the BIP watchface onto your BIP S?

I know that BIP S watchfaces don't work on the BIP (don't even try it - it will brick your BIP!) , but I thought that BIP watchfaces work unchanged on a BIP S.

Please let me know if I've got this ...

A lot of watchfaces use a fire or flame symbol to represent "burning" calories.
If you squint, does it look like a fire?

Have you seen the watchfaces designed by 4ndru ?
https://amazfitwatchfaces.com/search/bip/author/4ndru

Regards,
Eric

As far as I know, the BIP firmware and apps have no support for calculating sunrise/sunset times.

I use an app called "Golden Hour" which creates notifications at sunrise/sunset, or at a user-defined time before or after.
I added the app's notifications to the BIP list, so I get a notification on ...

Sounds like he wants an Apple watch!

I'm not certain if installing a bold font would help on the Activity screen,
but I do know that it affects the notification display and BIP menus (small text size).
If you're talking about the larger speed/distance/time displays, I don't think it will change them.

A custom watchface won't change ...

asoo,

That's great - I can finally see distance in miles on my watchfaces. Thank you!
Just to clarify - I don't develop watchfaces, I just modify the ones I like to be MM/DD and true 12-hour time.
Now I can change them to miles as well.

I wonder if there's a chance that the Watchface Editor by ...

You can't use the hours digits for the minutes because the author adjusts the hours digits position (and maybe size) to keep them centered for one or two digits.

However, you should be able to fill the minutes digits orange color with white to make them match the hours digits.
Just use a paint ...

You simply open the mi fit app. go to online watch faces. and you will see it there

I would do that, but I don't use the MiFit app and I don't have it installed.
In any case, it can't be opened with the standard BIP watchface expander, so there's no way I can see the contents of the .BIN file ...

I downloaded the .BIN file and tried to open it with AmazfitBIPTools Watchface.exe program.
It had a fatal error and was unable to open it.

Can you give me a link to the description page or forum post that leads to the watchface?

If someone knows how to get the .BIN file for that watchface, I could take a look at the .JSON file and see if there's a clue as to how they managed to display miles.

Regards,
Eric

If you PM me an email address, I can send you the .bin file for a watchface that I modified.

The BIP firmware makes creating true 12-hour watchfaces harder than it should be.

You have to make a set of hours digit images that are 2 digits wide, with transparent portions that get overwritten.
Then you have to change the .json file to use the new images for the hours tens and units digits ...

I'm on vacation until next Tuesday, but I should be able to do it by mid next week, if you haven't gotten any better offers before then.

Regards,
Eric

As far as I know, there is no way to make the BIP backlight stay on constantly.
That would dramatically reduce battery life, but it would be handy in certain situations.

Regards,
Eric

Hi Chris,

Yeah - for reasons I don't understand, BIP watchfaces can only display distance in kilometers, while the status page and app can be set to display miles.

A few developers have tried to create watchfaces that display miles but, as far as I know, no one has been successful.

I should have ...

Hi CGB,

As far as I know, the BIP's firmware only reports distance in kilometers, not miles, regardless of the settings in the app, so I think you're stuck with KM.

I can offer some help with changing the date format to dd (top)/mm (bottom).
Give me a few days to make the change. Meanwhile, send ...

As far as I know, the programs needed to pack/unpack and edit a watchface .bin file are available for Windows only,
but you could try the online WFEditor here: https://amazfitwatchfaces.com/editor/watchfaceEditor/?bip

Regards,
Eric

Edit: Sorry - I just noticed that WFEditor still requires you to ...

Hi Pat,

I used the latest version of Amazfit BIP tools (AmazfitBipTools-1.0.3.1.7z) and both of the watchfaces you listed extracted without problems. If you aren't using the latest version, give that a try.

Regards,
Eric

You may not be doing anything wrong.
Can you provide (or tell me where to download) the watchface bin file?
If so, I will try to extract it and see what happens.

Regards,
Eric

Here's a Dick Tracy watchface: https://amazfitwatchfaces.com/bip/view/23561

Google translation:

How to disclose a watch face that I created, I already saw several more wanted to see mine posted on the site

I'm not certain what the weather update interval is with the standard MiFit app, but I think it's one hour.
I don't think there's any way to change it.

If you're on Android, the Notify & Fitness app allows you to set a longer interval, but nothing shorter than one hour.

I use MS Paint to fill the portions I want to make transparent with a solid color.
It doesn't matter which color, as long as it doesn't appear elsewhere in the image.

Since MS Paint doesn't save images with transparency, I open the image in my favorite image viewer/editor IrfanView.
It's an ancient ...

I have been using a modified version of the technique originally created by watchface developer SIR.

You have to make a set of hours digit images that are 2 digits wide, with transparent portions that get overwritten.
In the following, "_" is transparent.

0 "_2" <= Tens (2 images)
1 "10"

0 "1 ...