smart alarm, buzzer and the touch screen

[dragonBTV]

The output of Haptics API is vibration motor only, does that mean there is no buzzer on Ionic?

As there is no alarm API, how can I read(read and display only) user's smart alarm setting?

What's the API for enable and disable the touch screen?

Thanks.

[ThomasFitbit · Accepted solution]

Correct, the only way to notify the user is via haptics. This works very well 🙂

You cannot read or change the user alarms.

You can turn the screen off and on via the display API. There is no API to turn off just the touchscreen. Why would you want one? Can you elaborate?

thomas

[dragonBTV]

Thank you for your answer!
Actually I think your team should go further with them.

For those who want make smart alarm or silent alarm apps, reading default user settings would be more convenient. Adding a read only API will not harm the system but avoiding too many alarms pop out from both third pary app and default system.

As there are three physical buttons there, why not giving an option to lock / unlock the touch screen by long pressing and involve a touch screen API?

The Ionic is not like the Charge or Alta, in my understanding, WHENEVER the screen were activated by twisting wrist, touch screen is ready.
At bed time, besides of annoying light, there are more mis-oprations awaitting.

[dgtlfi]

HI @ThomasFitbit,

Any thoughts on future releases that would allow us to read Alarms?

At the very least being able to read whether there are any Alarms on or off.

I'm trying to emulate my Casio watch that shows me if I have an alarm set or not.

Use case:

As a user who uses alarms not just for waking up I would like to quickly look at my clock face and determine if my alarm is set for that meeting I have at 2pm today by seeing a small icon of a bell somewhere.

Thanks.

[JonFitbit]

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@dgtlfi wrote:

HI @ThomasFitbit,

Any thoughts on future releases that would allow us to read Alarms?

At the very least being able to read whether there are any Alarms on or off.

I'm trying to emulate my Casio watch that shows me if I have an alarm set or not.

Use case:

As a user who uses alarms not just for waking up I would like to quickly look at my clock face and determine if my alarm is set for that meeting I have at 2pm today by seeing a small icon of a bell somewhere.

Thanks.

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We don't currently have a device API for this, but you can get the information from our Web API. The user would need to authenticate via the Settings API, then you'd query the Web API within the Companion API.

https://dev.fitbit.com/reference/web-api/devices/#alarms