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Use when building, launching, debugging, or capturing screenshots of PebbleOS under QEMU.
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| name | working-with-qemu |
| description | Use when building, launching, debugging, or capturing screenshots of PebbleOS under QEMU. |
Read docs/development/qemu.md — it documents the full workflow: qemu_*
boards, ./pbl qemu (monitor sockets, serial ports, uart1.log), ./pbl console, ./pbl screenshot, programmatic key input via sendkey, touch
injection via ./pbl touch/./pbl swipe, and ./pbl debug.
Agent notes:
./pbl screenshot to validate UI changes; read the resulting PNG.build/qemu-mon.sock) with
sendkey rather than the interactive QEMU window.On touch-capable boards you can inject touch into a running QEMU (./pbl qemu
exposes the QMP socket used for injection). Coordinates are screen pixels; the
display size is read from the emulated pebble-touch device and scaled
automatically.
./pbl touch 130 130 # tap at (130, 130)
./pbl swipe 130 220 130 40 # swipe up (finger bottom -> top)
./pbl swipe 130 220 130 40 --steps 20 --duration 0.4
A tap is a finger down then up; a swipe streams intermediate moves so drag gestures are seen as continuous. Injection uses the absolute-pointer input path; multi-touch is not wired up in the device.