Apple Watch

The ARIS watch app puts the night on your wrist: each rig’s sequence progress, guiding, camera, and Guardian state at a glance, one-tap pause/resume, and the actual picture — the live stack, zoomable with the Digital Crown. It’s the glance you take from bed at 2am without lighting up a phone.

Installing it

The watch app ships inside the ARIS iPhone app — there is nothing separate to buy or download. It requires watchOS 10 or later.

1. Install ARIS on your iPhone — see Installation.

2. If your watch installs apps automatically, ARIS appears on it by itself. Otherwise open the Watch app on the iPhone, scroll to Available Apps, and tap Install next to ARIS.

3. Open ARIS on the iPhone once. The phone hands the watch its rig list, and the watch takes it from there.

Tip

The phone syncs the watch’s rig roster — open the iPhone app once after installing, and again after adding or removing a rig, so the watch’s list matches yours. From then on the watch talks to your rigs directly.

Mission Tiles

Each rig gets a tile board that reads a whole night in one glance:

• Frames — subs captured against the plan.
• Exposure — the frame in flight, with its countdown.
• Guiding — live RMS, so a rough patch is visible from your wrist.
• Sensor — camera temperature and cooling.
• Finish — the projected completion time.
• Guardian — Rig Guardian’s state, so “the watchman is on duty” is a glance too.

With more than one rig, the watch shows the roster first — pick a rig to open its tiles.

Pause, resume, and stop

The actions screen keeps the everyday verbs one tap away and the consequential ones behind a confirmation:

• Pause / Resume — one tap, no confirmation. The current exposure finishes first, exactly like pausing from the app.
• Stop — behind an explicit confirm.
• Stop & Home — stops the sequence and sends the mount to its home position, also behind a confirm.

Nothing on the watch can slew the mount anywhere except home.

The complication

Add ARIS to a watch face and the night is on the face itself: sequence progress, guiding, and the projected finish time, in circular, corner, inline, and rectangular complication slots. Tap it to open the app.

The autofocus pop-up

When an autofocus sweep starts on the rig you’re watching, the watch presents a full-screen V-curve that draws point by point as the sweep measures — the wrist-sized cousin of the app’s autofocus progress card. A successful run lingers with its result, then puts itself away; a failed run stays until you dismiss it, so a 3am failure is still on your wrist at 3:15.

The Imaging screen

Open a rig’s Imaging screen and the actual picture fills the watch face edge to edge — the live stack by default when one is running (with a chip to switch to the last frame), because the stack is the night’s real product.

• Digital Crown zooms from 1× to 4×, so you can check a star or the target’s core.
• Night Vision dims the image — a photo is white light, and the watch respects your dark adaptation. Tap the image to peek at full brightness; tap again to dim.
• A caption reports what you’re looking at — “21 subs stacked” — so the picture carries its own context.

Note

Live previews on the watch require an INDI-based rig computer (Raspberry Pi or GPU-accelerated rig). On Alpaca- and NINA-based rigs the watch shows status without the picture.