Along with the watch app, there is an accompanying phone app as well. It doesn’t need the latest iPhone to work but it does need to be fairly new and the phone iOS should be up to date with the latest releases.
There are four tabs on the iPhone app, each enabling a different function. Click on the list below to bring up the documentation for each separate section:
When the app is started you see this screen first. There are four tabs for the phone app and this is the ‘Adjust Score’ tab. Let’s review this one first.
ADJUST SCORE TAB
When the watch score gets out of whack for whatever reason and needs to be adjusted, use this phone screen to update the watch scores. It is a two part process.
First, press the Get button to retrieve the current data from the watch. This will make sure that the ‘behind the scenes’ data doesn’t get messed up. Then tap on the values you want to change and pick the new value.
For example, let’s say the watch score looks like this:
Suddenly, you realize that you’ve been entering the score backwards and it’s really 40-15 and you need to fix it. Tap on the ‘Adjust Score’ tab button and then press the ‘Get’ blue button. In order for the score fetch to work, the app on the watch needs to be active and be showing on the screen. You know the fetch worked when the watch vibrates and the phone screen shows the score. A successful fetch message displays as well:
So let’s say we want to reverse the score but not change who is serving. Press on the ’15’ game score and a selection menu will appear:
Select ’40’ by tapping on that entry and it will change the score on the phone screen:
Do the same process with the second ’40’ entry to change it to ’15.
You can also switch who is serving by flipping the ‘Serving Player’ switch as well as other data as well but be careful with those.
Once you are satisfied with the entries on the phone, press the ‘Update’ button to send that data to the watch. You should get a successful send message if it is transmitted without error. Also please remember that the watch app needs to be active with the screen showing (not dark) for the data to be received by the watch. Also the watch will give a ding as well as a haptic vibrate if it receives the data:
The watch app has a couple of settings which alter what sort of data can be collected during a match and what will be sent back up to the phone app for review later.
First, this screen has a blue button labelled ‘Authorize Heath Data Access’. This is only for internal use by the app and this data is not sent anywhere else. In order to access heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, and body temperature, you need to press this button and then allow the app to access these (and only these) health database values. The information is not sent anywhere except to your phone app and is for your use only. We have no remote access to this data and, quite frankly, don’t WANT remote access to this data. The app will not be able to add a workout for you until you authorize it to do so.
When you tap the blue ‘Authorize Health Data Access’ button, a screen will be displayed that shows any unauthorized Health items that would be requested by the Watch app. Press the ‘Turn On All’ button to allow the app to access this data and then press the ‘Allow’ button to finalize the process.
Without doing this, the Watch app will not be able to access any biometric info. The app will still work but it can not start/end workouts or show calorie counts, etc…
Beyond that, there are three separate settings that be turned on and off, ‘Match Log’, ‘Get Point Type’, and ‘Coach Mode’ as seen below:
Match log will enable the watch app to start setting point by point updates to the phone as a record of what happened during the match current match. This complete match record can help in diagnosing what happened during a match and help diagnose poor or good play.
To set that on in the watch, toggle on the ‘Match Log’ switch and then press the ‘Send Settings to Watch’ button. As in the adjust score update, the watch app has to be in the foreground and the scoring screen visible. If the setting is sent successfully, the watch will do a haptic vibrate and the phone screen will show a success message:
Next there is a ‘Get Point Type’ toggle switch as well. If this is turned on and sent to the watch, after each point, the watch will present a screen asking you to pick some sort of pre-configured short description of how you would like to classify the point. For example, it could be a double fault or an ace or a very short point or a very long point or really whatever you wanted. The exact mechanics of this is explained in the ‘Point Type’ phone documentation section in more detail.
It only makes sense to se this only when the ‘Match Log’ toggle switch s turned on so if the ‘Match Log’ toggle is off, you can’t turn on the ‘Get Point Type’ toggle switch.
Finally, there is the ‘Coach Mode’ toggle switch. This allows a third party to monitor the match and make match locations and pick point types for the match log and leave the player not having to do anything. Additionally, the play could wear the watch and record the points but the coach can sit on the sideline and make notes into the match log and pick point types, if desired. These options are outlined more fully in its own separate section.
‘Match Log’ needs to be on to enable ‘Coach Mode’ but ‘Get Point Type’ is optional. The interactions of all these options are described in the coach mode section of the website.
POINT TYPE TAB
One area of combined watch and phone functionality is the ability to record a match log. The match log can contain merely a summary of the points as they are played along with a running score or it can contain more collected information if you like.
You can decide to classify each point on the watch after playing it with a single tap by setting up a set of ‘point types’ and then enabling the collection of that information in the settings tab and then transmitting those settings to the watch.
Part of making this work is to set up a list of point classifications in the phone app which can then be used on the watch to clarify the point from a pick list.
The app comes with 5 pre-configured point types and they are:
ace
double fault
short point
long point
marathon point
The screen as populated by the default entries is shown below:
You can use the plus and minus buttons to add or delete entries into this list.
To add an entry press the plus button and the add screen will be displayed.
Note that when entering the point type, you enter a long form point type description and then a shorter version. The shorter version is what is displayed in the pick list on the watch while the longer version shows up in the point log on the phone.
Press the ‘Add’ button when you are done and the new entry will be added to the list.
You can also delete entries by highlighting the entry you can to delete by tapping on it and then pressing the minus button. The entry will be immediately deleted.
Please be aware that changes made to this list do not become available to the watch app until you transmit them from the phone to the watch via the settings tab.
A full watch / phone interaction work flow is shown in the Match Log page of this website as well for a more detailed explanation of how it all ties together.
MATCH LOG TAB
The app has the capability of logging match points on the phone as they are entered on the watch. There is a varying amount of information which you can choose to log. The less information means you will have a more streamlined process on the watch. However, you can choose to do a little more and generate more detailed match and point logs on the phone which you can save and review later.
To initiate the point log, you need to turn on the proper settings, make sure the point types that you want are properly set up, and transmit that info to the watch.
Transmit the settings to the watch by setting the ‘Match Log’ switch on in settings and then using the ‘Send Settings to Watch’ button to transmit the data. You can add more detail by turning on the ‘Get Point Type’ switch on before transmitting. There is also a ‘Coach Mode’ setting which allows someone handling the phone to make manual entries into the log as well as pick the point type as well, relieving the player of the task.
After transmitting the settings to the watch, start scoring points as per normal but before you start make sure that the point log screen is active on your phone.
When the match is started, the ‘match log’ entry is shown in the log:
For this first example, we’ll do a point log with point type selection turned off. The following screens show the logging of a series of points during the course of the first game of a match. As each point is scored on the watch, it transmit the result plus the current score to the phone to be entered into the Point Log record:
Finally at any point you can save the current point log to iCloud via the ‘Export’ button. Pressing the button will reveal an overlay which will ask for a file name. Type the name you want to use and then the file will be saved on iCloud.
In this second example, we’ll turn on the Point Type switch and transmit that to the watch app. This is what the match log looks like at that point. Please remember that to capture the point type, you’ll need to select it from a pick list after every point. If ‘Coach Mode’ is off, the pick list will be presented on the watch. If ‘Coach Mode’ is on, the pick will will be presented on the phone.
You can see that each point line has the selected point type from the watch added to the entry.
