NAVIGATION
Navigation - Release Nº 01
Welcome to the first JetClock X release. Navigation brings navigation to your clock in two ways: aircraft and weather maps, now available on all clocks so you can visualise the airspace around you - and a whole host of new ways to move between them. There's a vessels map too, doing the same for the shipping offshore, though that one is an experiment whose data we can't promise. Everything below ships in this release.
JetClock X is an experimental programme. Features may change based on your feedback, and some experiments may never reach the main clock.
Glances
A glance is a full-screen display that takes over the whole of your clock's screen - a live map or instrument it can turn to, then turn back again. Glances are fully customisable, and can either auto-rotate on a set frequency or be switched by touch or remote. Enable the ones you want in Customise → Glances, and your clock face becomes one stop on a loop rather than the only thing on screen.
Glances run on all three clocks - Desk, Zero and Air.
Auto-rotation
Glances can cycle on their own, so the view ahead keeps changing without you touching anything.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| No rotation | Stay on one view and change it yourself |
| Every 5 / 15 / 30 minutes | Cycle through your enabled glances on a timer |
| On the hour | Move to the next glance at the top of each hour |
Changing the view by hand resets the countdown, so a glance you chose deliberately stays put for a full interval before the rotation moves on.
Aircraft Maps
Nearby aircraft on a live map, plotted as they actually move.
- Real-time positions with callsign and altitude
- Aircraft glide between updates rather than jumping between them
- Switch between the map view and the compass view
Weather Maps
Rain, wind, cloud and even air quality, charted over a live map of your region.
- Layers for temperature, precipitation, cloud cover and air quality
- Animated wind particles drifting across the map
- Infinitely adjustable, so you can get exactly the right look for your space
- Tuned for an always-on display - gentle motion, and it pauses when the screen sleeps
Wind & field overlays
Animated particles are now the standard motion display across the map glances, not just weather.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| None / Wind | Turn the animated particle layer off or on |
| Opacity | How strongly the particles read against the map underneath |
Vessels Map
The shipping around you, plotted live from AIS - the aircraft map's idea carried over to the water. Vessels are named and move as they move, and you can pull the radius in as close as 1 km for harbour traffic or push it out to 50 km.
This is an experiment, and the data is not guaranteed. AIS positions come from public receivers, so coverage is uneven: good around busy coasts and ports, thin or empty inland. A vessel can arrive late, sit on a stale position, or never appear at all. Nothing here is a navigational aid - never use it to make a decision on the water. And as an experiment it may change, or be withdrawn.
- Live vessel positions with names, from 1 to 50 km out
- Map or Compass view, the same two views as the aircraft map
- Colour markers by vessel type - cargo, tanker, passenger, fishing
- Hide anchored and moored vessels to leave only what's moving
- Ocean or Outline basemaps, both drawn for water rather than land
- Sea overlays: wave height & direction, or ocean currents
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Radius | How far out to look, from 1 to 50 km |
| Vessel labels | Off, name only, or full detail |
| Marker colour | Theme colour, or coloured by vessel type |
| Hide static vessels | Leave out anything anchored, moored or stationary |
| Map overlay | Wave height & direction, or ocean currents |
Enable it in Customise → Glances as Vessels Map. Inland, expect an empty map - it has nothing to draw if there is no shipping within 50 km of you.
New ways to get around
More to see means more to move between. Navigation adds two ways to steer, so every clock has at least one.
Touch - Desk & Air
Two invisible strips now run down the left and right edges of the screen on Desk and Air, with no hardware upgrade required. On Desk this arrives with new touch drivers we developed with Pimoroni; on Air it works wherever the device itself has a touchscreen.
| Where you tap | What happens |
|---|---|
| Right edge | Moves to the next glance, and back to the clock face after the last one |
| Left edge | Opens the control menu |
| Anywhere, while asleep | Wakes the clock |
The control menu puts the settings you reach for most on the glass itself - Brighter, Dimmer, Sleep, Mute and Reboot - so you don't need your phone to dim the clock at night or quiet it during a call. The brightness controls are a Desk feature, since Air brightness is handled by the device it runs on.
Maps respond to touch too: drag to move around one, pinch to zoom.
There's a full walkthrough in Navigating by touch.
Remote - every clock
Not every clock has a touchscreen, and sometimes yours is on the other side of the room. Open your dashboard, tap Remote, and pick a glance - or the clock face - and the clock turns to it straight away, then picks up its normal rotation again.
- Every clock - Desk, Zero & Air, all the same
- Jump to any glance - or back to the clock face
- No touchscreen required
- Works from anywhere you're signed in
Customise
The settings modal has been rebuilt around an embedded live preview, so you can see a change on a picture of your own clock before you save it.
- Live preview embedded in settings
- Full-width Save, with categories collapsed into accordions
- Tightened mobile layout
- The Glances card now carries the JetClock X mark and links back to the programme
What works on each clock
Every Navigation glance runs on all three clocks - the differences come down to how you move between them.
| Feature | Desk | Zero | Air |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glances (full-screen views) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-rotation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Aircraft Maps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Weather Maps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vessels Map (experimental) † | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wind & field overlays | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Compass view | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remote (push from your phone) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Touch to cycle glances | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ * |
| Control menu (sleep & mute) | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ * |
| Brightness on the glass | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Aircraft photos on the map | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
* Touch on Air works on touchscreen devices like phones and tablets, but not on non-touch displays such as Fire TV or other TV sticks. On a clock with no touchscreen, use auto-rotation or the Remote.
† The Vessels Map runs on every clock, but what it can show depends on AIS coverage where you are rather than on the clock - see Vessels Map.
Getting Started
Subscribe at jetclock.io/x to join the experimental programme and unlock the Navigation release.
Air and Zero pick up the Navigation features automatically. Desk needs the JetClock X image flashed to its SD card to unlock the touchscreen features - see Setting up JetClock X.
Open Customise on your clock and head to the Glances section (marked with the X). Enable the views you want, then set auto-rotation if you'd like them to cycle on their own.
FAQs
Need Help?
If you have questions about Navigation or JetClock X:
- Read the JetClock X overview
- Learn to navigate by touch
- Browse our other Support Articles
- Email dedicated JetClock X support at [email protected]
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