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AUTOMATION SUPPORT

​You can use the Ultimate Watch 2 automation features in 2 different ways:
  • You can use Ultimate Watch 2 to control other devices such as your smart home, smart lighting, home cinema, your car etc directly from your watch.  It has support for IFTTT, Tasker as well as general cloud webhooks.  
  • You can automate different tasks on Ultimate Watch 2 using any automation software such as IFTTT.  Go here to see what you can do.​
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​Using Ultimate Watch 2 to control smart devices

​You can use Ultimate Watch 2 to control other devices directly from the watch. You control these devices by configuring shortcuts on the dials that triggers an action when you tap on them. There are 3 different ways on how to control other devices.

IFTTT:

​The easiest way to start automation of other devices from the watch is to use IFTTT. It has support for hundreds of services that you can control from the watch. 

You use IFTTT shortcuts on the watch to trigger different types of actions from IFTTT. The IFTTT shortcut becomes the "If" part of the IFTTT applet, and then you can use any of the connected services as the "Then" part.

1. Storing the IFTTT webhook key

Before you can use IFTTT command shortcuts, you need to store a unique IFTTT key so that IFTTT knows that the commands are coming from you. You get the key by logging in to IFTTT and then go here to generate the webhook key. It will be a long series of letters and numbers. 

You then need to store this key in Ultimate Watch 2 ( you only have to this step once). You can do this either from the Android phone app or from the watch itself. Please see the screenshots below on where to put the key.  
*) Note that if you use the watch to enter they key you might have to download an external keyboard to be able to enter the special letters in the key.
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​2. Configuring IFTTT shortcuts:

To configure the IFTTT shortcuts you use the same method as any other shortcut. Just follow the procedure below.  Use the event name to identify the webhook in IFTTT.
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​Cloud commands:

​You can also control other devices using generic cloud URLs (webhooks). Most automation software as well as many Internet of Things devices support webhooks in the form of generic http(s) URLs that you can use to connect to these devices. 

You configure cloud commands in much the same way as the IFTTT shortcuts but you choose Cloud commands instead of IFTTT commands. You then enter the URL to the device or cloud software you want to communicate with. The URL will be submitted using HTTP GET and may contain a query string with parameters to pass to the device. 
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​Tasker:

​If you use an Android phone you can configure Tasker shortcuts that will execute Tasker actions on the phone. In the shortcut selection dialog you swipe to the Tasker tab and select the Tasker action to execute when you tap on the dial.
 






​​Automating control of Ultimate Watch 2

Ultimate Watch has support for automation using IFTTT, Tasker, AutomateIt, Automate etc. You can use these apps to automate different tasks in Ultimate Watch 2.

​Examples of things you can do (but only your imagination sets the limit):
  • Change to different presets (and different dials) when you arrive and leave work
  • Change brightness at sunrise and sunset
  • Display stock information or breaking news as a note on the watchface
  • Control Ultimate Watch 2 from Google Home, Google Assistant or Alexa. For example you can order Google Home or Alexa to change watchface.
  • Display the latest SMS as a note on the watchface
  • If someone has a birthday today you can automatically put a reminder as a note in the watchface

You can also automate in the other direction by assigning tap shortcuts on the dials on the watch to initiate Tasker actions on the phone. You can for example use this to control your smart-home from the watch or create remote controls.

Note that you currently need an Android phone and have the Android Ultimate Watch 2 phone app installed to use automation.

Quick start with IFTTT
If you want to quickly try automation with IFTTT, here are a few IFTTT applet examples. Before you start, just make sure that you have enabled notification access as described in step 1 below and make sure that you have the Android IFTTT app installed.

Change preset when entering a location area
https://ifttt.com/applets/jp2af7bK

Change watchface brightness at sunrise
https://ifttt.com/applets/s5FKzpM9

Change watchface brightness at sunset
https://ifttt.com/applets/NK279yiG

Display incoming SMS as a note on watchface:
https://ifttt.com/applets/GYWiMKqn

Change preset by speaking to Google assistant or Google home
https://ifttt.com/applets/w4FJZBnL


Getting started with automation:

1. Enable notification access
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You initiate actions on Ultimate Watch 2 by using the automation apps to send an Android notification with a command to Ultimate Watch 2. Ultimate Watch 2 will then intercept these notifications and send the command to the watch.

To be able to intercept the commands Ultimate Watch 2 need access to read notifications on your Android phone. You do this from inside the phone app by pressing the ENABLE NOTIFICATION ACCESS button from within the app as shown on the screenshot above.​

​​2. Start automating
Once you have enabled notification access you can start building your automation jobs. Please see the documentation for the automation app you are using to learn how to send a notification from the app.

Taking IFTTT as an example you first define the trigger that will initiate the action (the IF part) and then as the THAT part you select to send a notification.

Then as the text of the notification you write the Ultimate Watch 2 command as described below.

Command syntax:

To change a preset:
uw2: preset:<the name of the preset>
Example: uw2: preset:Dark Ranger

To set a note:
uw2: note1:<the note text>
Example: uw2: note1:This is an example of note text

To remove a note:
uw2: note_remove
Example:
uw2: note_remove

To change active and ambient brightness:
uw2: brightness:<active brightness in %>,<ambient brightness in %>
Example: uw2: brightness:80,80
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