Lilygo T-Watch. Sorry, I know I'm late to the party but no one mentioned these. They're a little closer to a development platform, but basic enough for anyone to pick up and learn. They're similar to the PineTime in terms of being low-power, more simple options. But this uses a more powerful ESP32-S3 SoC and is a lot more responsive.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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I only know of the Pine Time, however they warn that their watch OS is community driven and under active development.
Is it mature enough or it is better to wait now?
I don't have one myself as I don't like jewelry.
However you can gather a lot based on the release history in the Infinitime wiki
In the open source world, I take that as a highlight, not a warning.
Agreed! However I don't want to set unrealistic expectations
Idk if it can be called a smartwatch, but I just found out about the sensor watch, and now I really want one. Basically a hackable Casio f-91w
If it had an accelerometer and Bluetooth I'd have it already.
Is there a more reliable to find the right sensor watch than searching "sensor watch?"
I just picked up a banglejs 2 and I love it. I was using a galaxy smart watch 5 but didn't work without gapps on my lineage phone. Its obviously not as good as the Samsung smart watch but I've been super happy with it. No creating accounts, getting tokens etc. Just pair it via Bluetooth and gadget bridge and you are good to go. Its a little pricey but for open source watch its awesome, I've heard good things about pinetime as well.
Really wish we'd get some nice, fast RISC-V base boards with a nice amount of flash memory paired with a cool round LCD display..keep patrolling CNX for the parts but they don't seem to be quite there yet.
I use the AmazFit Band 7, the last sensibly sized watch that exists it often feels like.
Weather fails to sync, but then it's probably the least important feature on a watch. The only feature I really wish Gadgetbridge could do that even the official stack can't is "nap mode"
As a narcoleptic person still recovering from major depression, I wish I could either press a button to silence the watch and set a "smart alarm" for 30 minutes. Even better if it would turn on automatically if it detects me sleeping during the day!
The only other thing GB can't do is stand in for the phone-side ZeppOS API functionality, but who needs that, let's be honest!
Fantastic battery life to boot. I have gone two weeks after forgetting to charge it while wearing it almost 24×7!
Also can't push navigation to the watch, but tracking a route for a walk whole you have the phone with you works just fine. (Neither feature I need)
https://gadgetbridge.org/basics/features/navigation/
Looks like navigation is not supported
Ah, bummer. Thanks for looking it up though!
But, I now have Breezy Weather setup and working! I can now know how much it won't rain during the rainy season where every other part of the state is flooded with the flick of a wrist 🥲
Weather works on my Zepp OS watch. Breezy Weather syncs it to gadgetbrige
I'll try it out immediately (he said, after claiming weather is unimportant 😅)!
Do you also happen to know any way to get navigation instructions to show up on the watch? ...Asking for a friend, ofc!
In the Gadgetbridge settings it says it only works with OsmAnd and Google Maps, neither of which I use. But it should work with those two
There's AsteroidOS but I couldn't find any of the supported watches (all quite old IIRC) at a reasonable price.
Gadgetbridge with some proprietary watch is fine privacy-wise (I had an Amazfit GTR3 pro, I needed to register an account with the Zapp app and use it once, but then uninstalled it once I got the required password and used Gadgetbridge exclusively).
Bangle and the Pine Watch are low-res and IMHO quite ugly compared to alternatives from big brands.
PineTime is nice, wearing it right now.
What all can it do?
Similar to what most smartwatches can: measure heartbeat, show notifications and answer calls from your smartphone, flashlight (by showing white write screen), show weather, etc.
You can't actually take calls on the PT, you can use it to pick up your phone.
It's pretty barebones, but I like it for the price that it costs and the freedom it gives.
Notifications, media control, minor navigation aids, some heart rate stuff (they've linked some papers for their algorithm which I think is cool cause now we can discuss the validity of said algorithm for heart rate monitoring) and most importantly 1024 (the game)
And 1 week (approx) of battery life
I thought the game was 2048.
oh my bad, yeah. its all the same game to me.
Nice. Guess I will get one after all.
I'm a PineTime-user too, but be advised, that there is no sleep tracking, and the heartrate measurement is not passive, nor does it work in the background.
But if you want a simple watch for notifications, weather, time, step count, and a handy flashlight, with up to three weeks uptime with one charge, the pinetime is for you!
Also, you might want to consider joining the PineTime-Community, bring some life there! <3
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