If you were to buy an open source smart watch today to pair to a GrapheneOS smart phone which would you choose?
https://asteroidos.org/ not great device support but its a option
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
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
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.
100% Pebble
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.
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
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.
pinetime is a neat affordable project to check out… but i think they’re sold out atm. i saw someone say that in the last week in the chatroom
Got PineTime pre-tariffs (even though it took a while to ship to US)
Pretty neat piece of hardware, has everything that I want (notifications, time, weather, timer), InfiniTime OS is open source and was easy to read, build and flash (had to do so to add missing Cyrillic letters and a shortcut)
As long as your expectations are that of a microcontroller-powered device and not a supercomputer-on-your-wrist, it’s fantastic.
Pine was my first stop but when I went to purchase I got a 404/so I assumed it was not available which is why I’m here
I just put one in my cart and made it all the way to payment option… maybe try again?
It works on my computer and not on my phone…Thanks
In the EU store it is currently out of stock and also priced at 66€. Can it be, that this is a victim of the US-EU trade war, that Trump started?
That is a US based company, so with shipping and taxes I certainly would also reach the over 60€. Honestly I wasn’t that happy with my Pinetime. I tought about buying it again (destroyed mine when I dropped it) because it is cheap (26€). But for 66€ I might just get a different watch, that works with gadgetbridge
So, I bought a Pinetime with tariffs applied to go with GrapheneOS. It came to me about $50 USD shipped. For that price, I would do it again if it broke.
My needs are very basic, I can control music, see notifications, and get my heart rate on a graph when I work out. I only switched to this from Sensor Watch, simply because of the heart rate sensor.
Speaking of, you would be surprised what you could make a Sensor Watch do for you with no connectivity to your phone. I had totp for work, chess, and sunset/sunrise times as well as a onboard temp sensor.
Suffice to say, I think nowadays Ill readily pay more for FOSS with less features than something else just on principle. So I wouldn’t let what could be conceived as a “bad deal” stop you if your convictions are strong enough.
use gadget bridge for which ever you get.
I’m happy enough with my current (non-oss) watch that I’m not going to change until it becomes unusable, but if I had to make the decision today, I’d probably have a go at installing Asteroid OS on a secondhand device.
Thats probably the right direction to go, they support some styles that I can get behind like the LG watch 7 its in the same genre of my OG Apple watch Ultra
I’m currently also at that point, trying to decide what to buy.
Does anyone have a good recommendation for a smart watch with good compatibility with gadgetbridge? I’m not sure where to look (gadgetbridges list is long).
Something with a color display, maybe a week of battery life, being able to show my notifications and configuration without needing the manufacturers app
Thanks for mentioning Gadgetbridge. I finally checked it out. It is surprising that it supports other devices besides smartwatches.
I’m currently using the Nothing CMF Pro 2.
You configure it with the proprietary app to get the initial paring key, then you can switch to Gadgetbridge and disable or even remove the Nothing app.
The Good: cheap device cost, nice UI elements, machined aluminum bezel looks premium. Push notifications and most features work.
The Bad: semi-annoying workaround to get it set up initially, not all features work, not using the proprietary app disables using the Nothing watch face library so you’re stuck choosing from the 5 or 6 default designs that come with the watch.
Amazfit active 2
Currently using amazfit trex2 with gadget bridge.
All the things I actually use work. My only peeve is that you can’t silence /stop phone alarms from the watch, but I believe this is a general android thing…
smart watches are fuarking goyslop, just get a casio.
