Open source smart watches
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Watchy, while a cool product, is an eink watch with no smart features.
What exactly is meant by "smart features" ? The watch is an esp32 microcontroller driving an ePaper screen and a gyroscope (I forget if there are any other peripherals). It's already much smarter than a "regular" wristwatch, and being open source you can make it as smart as you want (in theory and within the performance allowed by it's specs, of course). The stock "os" will fetch the weather and adjust to daylight savings via internet.
Do you mean stuff like there's no smartphone app available for it? It doesn't pair with a smartphone out-of-the-box to do things like show SMS, email, calendar events, etc?
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There's an Android app with firmware for the watch that supports notifications, so the watch has the potential for smart features
But it looks like there's no equivalent app for Graphene OS, so in effect, you're right, no smart features
Thanks for sharing that link, I thought the watchy had been more-or-less abandoned by the community.
For what it's worth, GitHub says that chronos firmware had it's
1.0release just 5 days ago, so I'm not surprised the other commenter didn't know about it. -
If you were to buy an open source smart watch today to pair to a GrapheneOS smart phone which would you choose?
I was looking at https://open-smartwatch.github.io/gallery/gallery-main/ recently with some intrigue, if I had a 3d printer I'd consider building it
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If you were to buy an open source smart watch today to pair to a GrapheneOS smart phone which would you choose?
https://asteroidos.org/ not great device support but its a option
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Isn't the pebble watch getting a re-release? Might be neat to tinker with. There's also a conversion kit thing for one of the classic digital casio watches. Both are tinkering friendly and open source.
100% Pebble
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What exactly is meant by "smart features" ? The watch is an esp32 microcontroller driving an ePaper screen and a gyroscope (I forget if there are any other peripherals). It's already much smarter than a "regular" wristwatch, and being open source you can make it as smart as you want (in theory and within the performance allowed by it's specs, of course). The stock "os" will fetch the weather and adjust to daylight savings via internet.
Do you mean stuff like there's no smartphone app available for it? It doesn't pair with a smartphone out-of-the-box to do things like show SMS, email, calendar events, etc?
Compared to a pinetime, for example, it's a "dumb" watch. I has a step counter and an eink screen, but thats about it. The pinetime has alarms, notifications, call answering media controls, etc. So I guess it has potential, but it falls short of what I would think most people would consider "smart".
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If you were to buy an open source smart watch today to pair to a GrapheneOS smart phone which would you choose?
You should check out gadget bridge. It's got a list of devices it's compatible with.
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Amazfit active 2
That one looks good. Though it seems the process to get the pairing key from the proriatary app on a non-rooted phone is currently broken.
My phone is currently not rooted. Don't know, how that works with rooting on e/OS. If I can root it, get the key and then remove root without wiping the phone, then I might do that. -
That one looks good. Though it seems the process to get the pairing key from the proriatary app on a non-rooted phone is currently broken.
My phone is currently not rooted. Don't know, how that works with rooting on e/OS. If I can root it, get the key and then remove root without wiping the phone, then I might do that.I mean all I can say is I have had this watch for about 3 months and retrieving the key still worked on a non rooted phone as of then. Not sure if its changed since then.
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You should check out gadget bridge. It's got a list of devices it's compatible with.
Link: https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/wearables/
Look for 'Highly Supported' and the unlocked-padlock-icon.
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My pebble 2 Duo arrived yesterday... It doesn't yet pair with Gadgetbridge but I imagine it will at some point.
I've also ordered the Pebble Time 2, which I think will be a better watch for me: going back to a b/w display without touchscreen is hard. The Time2 has both colour and touchscreen....
I went with the duo, haven't gotten mine yet. Considering I've never given up on my Pebble 2 and Steel (with 1 day battery life) it's an easy switch for me. I tried the new Pebble app, it sucks. I'm hoping the Rebble version will work with the Duo. I use waaaay too many third party software options to go without.
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I was looking at https://open-smartwatch.github.io/gallery/gallery-main/ recently with some intrigue, if I had a 3d printer I'd consider building it
Look for makerspaces near you or even just look for printing services like craftcloud or shapeways.
