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”.
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.
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
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?
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”.
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.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