Basic Usage Flow

When you start the block, it enters sleep mode.
The block will happily stay in sleep mode until you decide to wake it up. Because most parts are asleep in this mode, it also preserves battery life.
You can use the arms to interact with the block.

Wake the Block

You can wake the device by pressing and holding both arms until the screen goes blank and the block vibrated.
After releasing the arms, you will be dropped into the menu. (Menu navigation is covered in the upcoming Basic Navigation chapter.)

If you spend too much time idle in the top level menu, the block will go back to sleep, as it was when you first powered it up.

Gestures

All applets except the games use the same Gesture system, to make navigation as easy and consistent as possible.

The left arm is responsible for navigating left (or lowering the value), where as the right arm is used for navigating right (or increasing the value).
Both arms use the same gesture system: Click the arm once to move into the corresponding direction or hold the arm and it will continue sending the click event, allowing you to easily move long distances without having to click the arm a bunch.

Besides the single-arm gestures, there are more gestures available by pressing both arms at the same time.
Pressing and releasing both arms together briefly is used to confirm the current selection.
Pressing both arms for a long period of time (more than 1 second) counts as a long press and is generally used as a back gesture.

Recovering

In an ideal world, the firmware should never panic.
But if it ever should, you should be able to restart the block by pressing one of the arms.

If this doesn’t work, you can use the reset button on the bottom of the block.

Background Jobs

When the block is asleep, it will periodically wake itself up, to perform background tasks like updating weather data (if configured).
Whilst performing background tasks, it displays an eyes emoticon.