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Open source smart watches (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Watchy, while a cool product, is an eink watch with no smart features.

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  • [–] 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

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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?

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  • [–] 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".

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