If you were to buy an open source smart watch today to pair to a GrapheneOS smart phone which would you choose?
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.
These projects are fun to hear abt because I always go “damn I wish I heard about that six years ago” only to find out it is emerging from 8 years of developmental purgatory. So in a way I got to skip the wait
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…
It doesn’t yet pair with Gadgetbridge but I imagine it will at some point.
I was wondering this myself. Thank you for that useful information.
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.
Commenting because no-one mentioned the Watchy
Potentially relevant for anyone considering a Watchy
https://github.com/Szybet/WatchySourcingHub/blob/main/Watchy 3.0 review.md
Broken link? I’ve managed to access the repo, but not the specific file linked
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”
Watchy, while a cool product, is an eink watch with no smart features.
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.
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”.
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
use gadget bridge for which ever you get.
I just pulled my Bangle.js 2 back out to play with making a better reminder system for myself. It works better than any of the other open source watches I’ve had with my GrapheneOS phone. The hardware isn’t open source as far as I know, but their mobile app (fork of gadget bridge) is, as are all the apps that run on the watch, and (I think?) the watch OS.
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.
smart watches are fuarking goyslop, just get a casio.
