Connecting the watch to your club

If your club runs on Joinovo, the watch can put a finished match straight into your club profile. This is optional in the strongest sense: scoring never needs it. Every format, undo, history, statistic and measurement works exactly the same signed out, offline, forever.

Connecting

1. On the watch: Settings → Club account → Connect.
2. The watch shows an eight-character code and an address.
3. On a phone or a computer, sign in to Joinovo and go to that address.
4. Type the code and confirm.
5. The watch notices within a few seconds and shows your name.

The code is good for ten minutes. If it runs out, start again — nothing is lost.

Type it carefully: after five wrong codes the Joinovo page locks the form for fifteen minutes. The code never contains the letters I, L, O or U, and never the digits 0 or 1, so a character that looks like a zero is an O and a character that looks like a one is not there at all.

It covers every club you belong to

You connect a watch to your account, not to one club. If you are a member of three clubs, one connection covers all three, and the Joinovo page lists them by name before you confirm. Choose which club a match goes to on the watch, under Settings → Club account.

Picking the court you booked

If your club runs court bookings and you have one today, the watch offers it when you open the app: the one you are in the middle of, or the next one to start, already selected. Tap it and you are back at the start button.

Picking a booking does two things. It tells the match which club it belongs to — so a match played at one club goes there even if the watch is set to another. And it names the players: whoever is on the booking is recorded as having played, members tagged as members and guests as plain names.

It is a suggestion, not a rule. A booking says who was on the court. Choosing None of these is always available, and if you have no bookings today the screen never appears — then nobody is named, and you can add the players in Joinovo afterwards.

Doubles: the watch asks the one thing the booking cannot answer

A booking says four people had the court. It does not say who partnered whom, and nobody but somebody standing on that court knows. So when you set the match type to Doubles, the warm-up screen offers a Partner row: one tap on whoever is on your side, and the other two are your opponents. The match then arrives at your club complete, with the pairs the right way round, and you never have to open the web editor.

Your own name is always part of what is sent. That is what tells the club which pair was yours — without it, a result could be filed against the wrong side.

The row is missing when the watch cannot ask honestly: you did not pick a booking, you are not on the booking yourself (somebody booked without adding you), or there are more people on it than a court holds. The match is played and recorded as doubles either way; only the names are missing, and they can be added in Joinovo.

If the screen never appears at all, there are two reasons and the watch genuinely cannot tell them apart: either you have nothing booked today, or your club's Joinovo plan does not include court bookings. Bookings are not part of the free plan, so a club that keeps only a member list has nothing to offer the watch, and the offer will not start appearing later. Ask your club which of the two it is. Everything else on this page — uploading matches, sharing them, naming the players by hand — works either way.

Nobody is notified because you picked a booking. That only happens when you share a result.

Court time warning

If you started the match from a booking, the watch can buzz before the court is due back. Settings → Court time warning, five minutes before by default, and off is one of the answers. Three short buzzes rather than one — a single tick is easy to mistake for a point registering.

It exists only with an account, and that is a fact rather than a restriction: the booking is the only thing that knows when the court ends. Without one the row is not in settings at all.

It works during a training session too. The court is booked whether you are playing on it or hitting against a wall on it.

Two things worth saying up front. Start a match with less time left than you asked to be warned by, and nothing buzzes — a warning about the past is only noise. And the buzz needs the app to be running: while measuring it is, because measuring keeps it alive, but on Scoring only with the screen off the watch may put it to sleep, and the buzz then comes late or not at all. That is the trade for not asking you to grant an alarm permission.

What gets uploaded, and when

Once you are connected, every finished match is uploaded to the club you selected — including the matches you recorded before connecting, and whatever the sport: a hall volleyball match, a football game or a result you entered afterwards goes up just the same. Connecting is what creates the copy, and it copies what is already on the watch.

It happens in the background, whenever the watch has a network. You do not have to open the app, and a match played on a court with no Wi-Fi goes up later on its own. Settings → Club account tells you where things stand: how many matches are still waiting, or that everything has been sent.

What goes up is the match itself: the sport, the scoreline, when it started and finished, how it ended, and the point-by-point log — plus the line-up, if it was a doubles match you answered the partner question for. What stays on the watch is the venue and the opponent name you typed here.

What your watch measured

Your heart rate, calories, steps and distance stay on the watch unless you say otherwise, and saying so takes three separate yeses: your club's plan has to include the feature, your club has to switch it on, and you have to give that club your consent — in Joinovo, on a phone or a computer, under your profile's privacy settings. Until all three are true, nothing measured leaves your wrist.

When they are, what goes up is a summary of the match — the lowest, average and highest heart rate, the calories, the steps and the distance — and the heart-rate curve: the line your heart drew across the match, at most one reading every five seconds. On the battery-saving profile, which is the default, that is one every thirty seconds; the line is coarser and the match is longer. Joinovo draws it under the numbers. Only you can see any of it — not the people you played, not the club's administrators.

The curve is deleted sooner than the rest. A club keeps it for a year by default, where the numbers stay for two, and a club can shorten either. A line says more about you than three numbers do: how quickly you come down between points is in it, and no average shows that. If you would rather your club had the numbers and not the line, there is no separate switch for it — withdraw your consent, which removes both.

You can take it back. Withdrawing your consent stops future uploads and deletes what that club already holds. Each club is asked separately, so consenting at one says nothing about another, and moving a match to a different club deletes its measurements as well.

The watch checks with the server before every upload rather than remembering your answer, which is why withdrawing works even if your watch was switched off at the time.

A training session needs a second yes

A session you recorded without playing a match is covered by its own consent, asked separately in Joinovo, per club. Agreeing to share your matches is not agreeing to share every session, so the watch reads the two answers separately and a yes to one is never taken for the other.

With that consent given, a finished session goes whole to the club selected on your watch: when it started and finished, its sport, the numbers and the curve. Without it, the session waits on the watch — nothing is lost, and it goes up the day you say yes. Withdrawing it deletes that club's sessions and leaves your matches alone.

A session with nothing measured on it is never sent at all: a session is its measurement, so there is nothing to send.

If your partner also wore a watch

Both watches record the match, so Joinovo receives two accounts of one evening — yours and theirs. It knows they are the same match when you both started from the same court booking -- and where there was no booking, when one of you says so. Your list then shows it once, as your own record: your scoreline, and what your own watch measured.

The two scorelines will not always agree. Someone forgets a point, someone stops early. Nothing tries to settle that — your record stays yours and theirs stays theirs, and neither is overwritten by the other. If you delete yours, theirs is untouched.

Without a shared booking Joinovo still does not guess: six courts booked at six o'clock look identical from a server. What it does instead is ask you. If one of the two matches names the other player and the two overlap in time, your list offers the question and you answer it -- and neither of you is stuck with the answer, because either can separate them again. Whenever two recordings are being shown as one, your list says so.

Only you can see an uploaded match. Naming who you played against, and letting them see the result, is done in Joinovo on a phone or a computer, and it is your choice. Disconnecting stops any further uploads; matches already uploaded stay in your Joinovo account, where you can delete them.

Several watches

Connect as many as you like. Each appears in Joinovo under Connected watches with its name, when it was connected and when it was last used.

Disconnecting

On the watch, Disconnect makes this watch forget the connection. It does not tell Joinovo, because a watch that has been reset or lost cannot.

In Joinovo, Remove is the one that actually withdraws access, and it takes effect immediately, everywhere. Use it if a watch is lost.

What the watch stores

Your name, the names of your clubs, and the access token. The token is encrypted with a key held in the watch's own secure hardware, so a copy of the app's files is not enough to use it. Your password never reaches the watch, and the watch never asks for it.