The watch face is the BassWatch's home screen: the clock you see whenever you wake it. It shows the time along with a compact glance of your system, and it is one tap away from full monitoring. The watch face works whether or not a device is paired, because the clock and battery are the watch's own hardware. This article covers what the watch face shows and how it fits into the everyday flow.
The Home Screen
Every time the BassWatch wakes, and every time it boots, 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: the signal strength of the link to your paired device, and the link status when it is down
- Telemetry glance: a compact readout of live data from your device, such as system voltage and master volume, alongside the IDS status icon
The glance only shows what your paired device actually reports. A WVC base station reports voltage and volume; an HPVM voltmeter reports voltage but not volume; an SSA analyzer and a WTH temperature hub report neither, so those items simply do not appear. Temperature and the audio analysis views are never part of the glance: they live on the monitoring screen, one tap away.
When No Device Is Paired
Before you pair anything, the watch face is a plain, working watch. It shows the time, date, and battery, and it does not show placeholder telemetry for a device that is not there: the voltage and volume glances, the IDS icon, and the signal-strength bars are all hidden. In their place it shows two cues:
- A Tap to Pair button. Tap it to start pairing. See First Boot and Pairing.
- A Settings arrow pointing toward the side button, which opens the menu (for WiFi setup, colors, orientation, and so on) even before you pair.
This is different from a paired watch whose device is momentarily off (see below): an unpaired watch has nothing to reconnect to, so it invites you to pair rather than showing "Reconnecting."
When the Device Is Momentarily Offline
If the watch is paired but its device is switched off or out of range, the watch face shows Reconnecting with a spinner. It keeps the clock, date, and battery working, and shows the system readings as placeholders (--) until the link returns. Tapping the watch face does not open monitoring in this state, because there would be no live data to show; the face stays put until the device comes back, then a tap opens monitoring normally. The watch keeps trying to reconnect on its own the whole time.
Setting the Clock
The time on the watch face comes from the BassWatch's internal real-time clock, which keeps running while the watch sleeps and while it is powered down. Set it from the menu:
- Press the side button (or long-press the screen) to open the menu
- Select Set Time
- Set the date and time, and choose 12-hour or 24-hour display
Your choice of format applies to the watch face. See Menus and Settings.
Colors Follow Your Theme
The watch face is 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 (when a device is paired and connected). The tabs it shows depend on the connected device (see Overview for the capability table).
- Swipe left / right and tap the mode tabs to move between monitoring views.
- Swipe down to return to the watch face.
- Press the side button, or long-press anywhere, to open the menu.
When a device is paired but offline, tapping the watch face does not open monitoring, since there is no live data yet; the face keeps showing you the time and battery, and opens monitoring once the link returns. When no device is paired at all, tapping the Tap to Pair button starts pairing instead.
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 device it does not need heavy audio analysis, so the device 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. Tap the screen or press the side button to bring the watch face back (or raise your wrist, if Tilt to Wake is turned on). 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.