▲ 90 ▼ Open source smart watches (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml 41 comments fedilink hide all child comments If you were to buy an open source smart watch today to pair to a GrapheneOS smart phone which would you choose?
[–] 2910000@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (9 children) Commenting because no-one mentioned the Watchy permalink fedilink source hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] brisk@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago (2 children) Potentially relevant for anyone considering a Watchy https://github.com/Szybet/WatchySourcingHub/blob/main/Watchy%203.0%20review.md permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) Broken link? I've managed to access the repo, but not the specific file linked permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Sorry, works for me on both Voyager and the aussie.zone web interface. No idea what could be wrong If you're already in the repo it's "Watchy 3.0 Review.md" permalink fedilink source parent [–] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (5 children) Watchy, while a cool product, is an eink watch with no smart features. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] 2910000@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago 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 1.0 release just 5 days ago, so I'm not surprised the other commenter didn't know about it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago 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". permalink fedilink source parent [–] Batmorous@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Very true but you can dual wield that watch with an actual full-blown open source smart watch when the full one becomes a thing permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago (2 children) Potentially relevant for anyone considering a Watchy https://github.com/Szybet/WatchySourcingHub/blob/main/Watchy%203.0%20review.md permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) Broken link? I've managed to access the repo, but not the specific file linked permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Sorry, works for me on both Voyager and the aussie.zone web interface. No idea what could be wrong If you're already in the repo it's "Watchy 3.0 Review.md" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) Broken link? I've managed to access the repo, but not the specific file linked permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Sorry, works for me on both Voyager and the aussie.zone web interface. No idea what could be wrong If you're already in the repo it's "Watchy 3.0 Review.md" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Sorry, works for me on both Voyager and the aussie.zone web interface. No idea what could be wrong If you're already in the repo it's "Watchy 3.0 Review.md" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (5 children) Watchy, while a cool product, is an eink watch with no smart features. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] 2910000@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago 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 1.0 release just 5 days ago, so I'm not surprised the other commenter didn't know about it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago 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". permalink fedilink source parent [–] Batmorous@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Very true but you can dual wield that watch with an actual full-blown open source smart watch when the full one becomes a thing permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 2910000@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago 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 1.0 release just 5 days ago, so I'm not surprised the other commenter didn't know about it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago 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 1.0 release just 5 days ago, so I'm not surprised the other commenter didn't know about it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago 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". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago 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". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Batmorous@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Very true but you can dual wield that watch with an actual full-blown open source smart watch when the full one becomes a thing permalink fedilink source parent