Datalink library for the Ironman watch.
- About the Triathlon watch
- Download
- Release Notes
- Settable watch information.
- How this version came about
- Pseudo Screen Shot
General
The Timex Datalink watches have the ability to download data and
settings from a computer monitor. I have a page giving the hilights
of this data transfer method.
Timex has only released software for one operating system and it
wasn't Linux, (or MAC, but I don't have one of those).
Watches available
There are four types of datalink watches available from Timex, three
of which should be supported by this software. I only
have the Timex Datalink Ironman Triathlon model, allowing me to only
really test support for that version. The model 70 and 150 should
work though I don't have a watch to actually test them. The model 150
and 150s are pratically the same. There is a relatively new (2002 at
least), watch that Timex put out called the beepware Pager Watch that
also supports datalink downloading from a computer. I do not expect
this watch to work with the datalink software. If someone wants to
decode this protocol and add support I would gladly accept patches,
but I don't have this watch and there isn't much I can do. Feel free
to e-mail me dfries@mail.win.org if you have this watch and want some
advice on where to begin.
Types and features
- 70
time, alarm, appointment, todo, phone, anniversary,
system, melody selection
- 150 & 150S
time, alarm, appointment, todo, phone, anniversary, system,
wristapp, melody selection
- Ironman
time, alarm, phone, system, timer, chron (multilap stopwatch)
- beepware pager watch
not supported
The current version is available in the download directory. It is available in source
version only. I have only tested the this software with SVGALib under
Linux. I do not know if it will run under any other Unix.
If you decide to try this out, please send an e-mail to dfries@mail.win.org. I would
like to know which watch you have so I can have a list of testers for
the watch models I don't have. I am also interested in success
stories, a simple note that you tried it, bug reports (with or without
fixes), feature requests, etc about this program.
I can only test the program with the Timex DataLink Ironman
Triathlon watch under Linux with the SVGAlib Linux output. I have
reports from other people saying it works with other models of the
watch also, I just can't test the other versions.
- changelog-1.0.1.txt avaialble
- datalink-1.0.1.tar.gz
- Fixed the setwatch options of -app and +app to say
appointments instead of wristapp.
- setwatch was trying to run svgablink with -150S instead of
-150s
- The -file (for creating a DEBUGOUTPUT) was broken, fixed.
- changelog-1.0.0.txt avaialble
- datalink-1.0.0.tar.gz
- The entire source tree is now under the GPL
- bug and warning fixes
- Fixes a bug when a newer bison is used
- Added man pages written by Steaphan Greene
<stea@cs.binghamton.edu>
- Switched from a date version system to a numerical version system
- 02-14-2001
- Added support for the Timex Datalink 150S watch.
- Bug fixing.
Most labels are eight characters, exceptions are listed.
- Two time zones with a three character label per time zone.
- The number of laps to hold with a label.
- Five pre-set timers with stop, repeat, chron feature at the end
and label for each.
- Ten alarms, with a daily, monthy, yearly selection and a label for
each.
- Phone entries with up to 15 character label and up to 12 numbers
or up to 11 numbers with one of the following modifiers,
- 'W' work
- 'H' home
- 'P' pager
- 'C' Cellular
- 'F' Fax
- ' ' None
After I had bought this watch I looked around for Linux software to
control the watch with and I found the Datalink library by Karl R.
Hakimian. It uses SVGA to draw the lines on the screen, because you
must have the verticle retrace signal to send data to the watch.
Unfortunetly, his library only supports the other two datalink
watches, the model 70 and 150. The Ironman has features different from
those watches. So I added support to the Datalink library and it is
ready to test out. It should be fully functional, but it still needs
testing. There are features left to add, like being able to detect if
the watch's memory is full, (it does not currently).
Pseudo Screen Shot/animation and more information about the data
transfer method is available
here.
dfries@mail.win.org
$Date: 2006/01/28 01:22:17 $
