The watch face is the BassWatch's home screen: the idle view you see when you raise your wrist. It shows the time along with a compact glance of your system, and it is one tap away from full monitoring. This article covers what the watch face shows, how to switch faces, and how it fits into the everyday flow.
The Home Screen
When you wake the BassWatch, the watch face is what greets you. It keeps the display light on battery while still giving you the essentials at a glance:
- Time and date: read from the internal real-time clock, shown in 12-hour or 24-hour format per your setting
- Battery indicator: the watch's own charge level, with a charging symbol when it is plugged in
- Connection indicator: whether the watch is currently linked to your WVC base station
- Telemetry glance: a compact readout of live system values from the base station, such as voltage, master volume, and amplifier temperature
The telemetry glance only shows values your base station provides. When the watch is not connected to a base station, the clock, date, and battery still display normally, and the system values show as unavailable until the link returns.
Choosing a Watch Face
The BassWatch includes a selection of built-in watch face styles. They differ in how the clock and the telemetry glance are laid out, so you can pick the balance of clock-forward or stats-forward that suits you.
To change the watch face:
- Long-press the screen (or tap the gear) to open the menu
- Select Settings
- Select Watch Face
- Tap a style to preview and apply it
Your choice is saved automatically and restored the next time the watch wakes. See Menus and Settings.
Colors Follow Your Theme
Watch faces are drawn using your active color theme, the same palette that colors the monitoring screens. Change the theme or individual element colors in Settings > Colors, and the watch face updates to match. All 16 built-in themes apply, and the default is LF Audio. See Menus and Settings for the color options.
From Watch Face to Monitoring
The watch face is the idle view; the monitoring screen is where you dig into live data.
- Tap the watch face to open the monitoring screen, with its Volts, Volume, Temperature, and audio analysis tabs.
- Swipe and tap the mode tabs to move between monitoring views.
- Swipe right (or use the back control) to return to the watch face.
- Long-press anywhere to open the menu.
See Display and Navigation for a full tour of the monitoring modes.
Battery note: While you are on the watch face (not actively monitoring), the BassWatch tells the base station it does not need heavy audio analysis, so the base station stops streaming FFT, oscilloscope, and waterfall frames. This keeps the wireless link light and saves battery. The analysis data starts flowing again the moment you open one of those monitoring views.
When the Screen Sleeps
To preserve battery, the watch face dims after a short period and then turns the screen off. Raise your wrist or tap the screen to bring the watch face back. The time keeps running on the internal clock the whole time, so the watch face is always current when it wakes. You control the dim and sleep timers in the menu. See Battery and Charging and Menus and Settings.