Guild Wars 2

Hey all you Pebble Smartwatch owners! I’ve put together a Boss Timer application.

• It uses the schedule information from the June 17, 2014 Patch to generate a list of upcoming events without requiring an Internet connection.
• It has a reminder system so you don’t forget when your favorite events are about to happen.
• Like a surprising number of GW2-related things, it’s open source.

You can get it from the Pebble Marketplace; search for “GW2 Boss Timers”

Version 1.1 is available now!

This version adds reminder support. Press select to set a reminder for the selected event.

When you set a reminder for an event, your watch will vibrate at 10 and 5 minutes before, and at the event start.

Reminders are saved on exit, and you will be reminded for that same time slot every day until you clear the reminder.

Because watch applications are unloaded from memory when you exit them, you have to leave this application open for reminders to work.

This version also has a new interface with local wall time included under the event timer, so you know what time slot you’re setting reminders for.

Because you need to leave this application open for timers to work, I’m thinking about modifying the system-provided title bar to provide more normal watch functionality, such as a slightly larger time display, and battery/Bluetooth indicators. What do you think?

Also, how do you feel about the new design in this version? Is the timer font big enough? Is anyone getting stuck at the “Getting time zone from your phone” message?

I’m planning a daily checklist system next, and I already have a few implementation ideas. Not sure how long this one will take me to finish though, so I’ll go with “soon™” again.

I noticed this application isn’t available to Pebble users with iPhones yet. The reason is the Javascript used to fetch the time zone information needs to be bundled inside the Pebble for iOS app, due to Apple’s restrictions on running third-party code, so you iOS users will have to wait for the next Pebble for iOS update.

Just a quick update to let all you iPhone users out there know that this app should be available in the iOS version of the Pebble marketplace now!

I’m still working on the daily checklist system. The way it will work is long-pressing on an event will collapse the menu items and suppress reminders for all the events of that boss.

The reason it’s been taking a while is I ran into a problem where when the Living Story comes back and the event schedule changes, the event reminders and checklist entries break. For now I have it set to just reset saved reminders and completions when an update changes the schedule. I’m working on a better way to store saved data for the future, but I’m sticking with the reset method for now, so I can get some kind of daily checklist functionality out to you sooner.

Questions? Comments?

Version 1.2 is available now!

I’ve finally updated this watchapp for the new boss schedule released on June 17th.

Unfortunately, due to a limitation of the menu display code, the three “Hardcore” bosses are not included in the list.

Luckily, I predicted this and have a solution partly implemented in a local branch, so I’ll see if I can get it finished up soon, ‘cause I know we all just can’t live without that daily Karka Queen kill.

Version 1.3 is available now!

Another update so soon!

I added support for displaying multiple active events, and updated the schedule again to add the “Hardcore” boss events back in.