Reset when you start
Press the round button four times after you feed the starter, water the plants, or do the thing. Each press must be within two seconds. The ring fills more red with each press and flashes green on the fourth, and begins again.
timebuddy.ca
It keeps the time you keep forgetting.
Time Buddy is a weekly or daily task reminder. A ring of lights fills from green to yellow to red as the time passes until the task is due and then indicates how overdue it is until you reset it. It's perfect for keeping your plants watered, your sourdough fed, pills taken, or anything you want to remember to do.
- Plants: Maintain a watering cycle, tracks seven days from last watering, shows you how overdue it is if past the deadline
- Sourdough: Use day mode to feed daily or keep tabs on a week in the fridge
- Pills: Keep track of daily medication with day mode
- Help yourself form a weekly or daily healthy habit of your choice
- Setup Wi-Fi once. Can be unplugged and relocated without losing the timer
- Note: A single Time Buddy only tracks time for one task
- Private: Only the last reset time is stored on the device. Nothing is recorded or sent to the internet
Week · 5 days Halfway. The lights have warmed to yellow.
Your Privacy is important
It only needs to know the time
Time Buddy does not monitor anything on your network except the time. It asks a time server what time it is. That is the only thing it requests.
It remembers only when you last reset it, and nothing else. It has no idea what you did. No login account, password or registration needed.
Your Wi-Fi password stays on the puck only so it can reconnect. Nothing is sent to timebuddy.ca, or anywhere else.
How it works
You do the thing. The ring remembers when you need to do it again.
It is an elapsed timer, not an alarm clock. It does not beep at 8 in the morning. It shows how long it has been since you last reset it.
Leave it plugged in
There is no battery. USB-C power is enough. Unplugging does not forget the start time. When power returns, it reads the clock and draws the real elapsed time.
A week, or a day
The switch on top chooses the cycle. Blue flashes mean 7 days. Orange flashes mean 24 hours. Flipping it does not restart the clock. It only changes how the ring draws the time already passing.
- 24
- lights around the ring
- 7 hours
- per light in week mode
- 1 hour
- per light in day mode
- 4 presses
- starts the timer again
What it's for
A week you can see.
Reset it when you do the job. The ring fills across seven days, from green to yellow to red. Day mode is the same ring drawn across 24 hours.
A weekly reminder for:
Seven days, seven hours per light. A full ring means the week is up.
Sourdough in the fridge
Week · 7 days
Feed it, then press four times. Each light is seven hours. When the ring is full and the last lights are red, a week has passed.
Plants
Week · 7 days
For a weekly watering. Reset when you water. It is not a moisture sensor. The ring only shows how long it has been since the last reset.
The weekly chore
Week · 7 days
A filter check, the laundry, the bins. Reset when you finish. A full ring is the week. Flipping the switch does not restart the clock.
or do a daily thing:
Twenty-four hours, one hour per light. Handy while a daily habit is taking hold, and for the few jobs that happen every day.
Sourdough on the counter
Day · 24 hours
Feed it, then press four times. When the ring is full and the last lights are red, a day has passed. Miss it, and the ring pulses red.
Pills and daily doses
Day · 24 hours
Reset when you take it. The ring shows how long since then and cannot be set to remind at a specific time. Time Buddy does not beep, and it is not a medical device.
Forming a good habit
Day · 24 hours
A stretch, a walk, a page of practice. Reset when you do it, and use it while the habit needs a reminder. The ring shows the day filling in.
As time passes
Green, then yellow, then red.
Early lights are green. They warm to yellow through the middle, then to red as the ring fills. A full ring means the cycle is up. After that it pulses red, and dark lights count how far past due you are. At twice the cycle, it flashes.
Week · 3.5 days Halfway. The lights have warmed to yellow.
It starts playing when you scroll to it, one step a second. Drag the slider and it pauses. In week mode the slider is days. In day mode it is hours. Choose a picture to jump there.
These pictures fill clockwise from the top. On the puck, the first light sits wherever the ring was mounted. Read how full the ring is, and the color.
Wi-Fi, once
The lights tell you what it is doing.
Setup happens on your own phone, talking to the puck. Your Wi-Fi password stays on the device. It is not sent to timebuddy.ca.
Red chase
Setup. Join the network whose name starts with TimeBuddy-. It is 2.4 GHz only.
Blue chase
Connecting to the Wi-Fi you saved.
One blue light
Waiting for the clock. The timer picture starts once the time is known. On the puck this light is dim.
Amber, backward
Wi-Fi has been down for a minute. The timer keeps running, and the puck retries.
Plug in the USB-C cable. When the red chase is running, join that TimeBuddy- network. A page should open. If it does not, go to 192.168.4.1, pick your home Wi-Fi, and save the password. Your phone may say the network has no internet. Stay connected anyway. That network is the puck.
After it joins your home Wi-Fi, open timebuddy.local for the status page. That address is the puck on your network. This website is timebuddy.ca. If you have more than one, the first keeps timebuddy.local and the others show their own name on their page.
To forget the network: unplug, hold the round button, plug back in, and keep holding while the ring fills red. About two seconds. It spins red and returns to setup. Letting go early cancels. The full steps, pictures, and fixes are in the setup guide.
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