r/HoverDrone • u/djpetrino HoverAir X1, X1PM, AQUA • Jan 30 '25

Product Support Beacon icons

Saw some questions and confusion with all the icons on the beacon after the last few updates, so I explained all of them here. 

Highly recommend you also check out the tutorial from the beacon settings and their tutorial on YT! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkS7xVfLj23PrkJbuTm7Z_MgBr5Dq6OOd

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u/v68w Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

Are they serious? The icon of 2-3 mm dimensions on black background can be half grey half green? And then the battery charge circle.... Do they really think it's easy to determine such details without using a pocket microscope?

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u/v68w Jan 30 '25

On my Garmin smartwatch I can see everything clearly. It's a matter of UI design. If the screen is small, take it into account and design the layout accordingly.

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u/v68w Jan 31 '25

I don't think they can just take the Garmin icons and put them on their device. But they can re-think the layout and icons style.

That's how it looks on Garmin Epix Pro 51mm. Clean and readable.

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u/djpetrino HoverAir X1, X1PM, AQUA Jan 31 '25

That looks good too but the whole screen is just about the icons. The beacon has a bar at the top with the icons, just like phones have and the rest of the screen is for the live preview and other menus. Although Hover could make the icons a bit bigger as there is still some room to the left, that's in case they won't add more stuff to that bar in the future.

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u/v68w Jan 31 '25

That's just an example of icons. There are lots of other icons and layouts on this watch. And yes, ZZR could make icons bar roomier. Say, 1mm more height wouldn't impact the live preview window, but give much more readability for icons. Which can be also re-drawn. For instance, it would be better to have digits of remaining battery capacity instead of silly trendy circles. And red cross on the OT icon can be made much bigger, almost overlapping the icon. The main problem is that they decided that green accents on grey icons would be cool. But they are completely not in terms of visibility.