Hi All,
I'm looking for your advice guys.
I need full android smartwatch. What I need it for is my CGM continues glucose monitoring system. I went trough tones of crappy sites advertising this or other brand, but to be honest all of them are no good for me.
My requirements:
Bluetooth connectivity for CGM, battery life and waterproof so I could go for a swim.
I don't care if:
It's samsung , lg or any other brand
if it's stylish or not
square or round
Does it have Heart monitor or not
Does it have NFC or no NFC
nor any camera
I don't need any workout apps, I can do my workout without it just fine, I don't need any notifications or any other useless futures which I will not have a time or will to look at anyway.
What I'm looking for is pure functionality.
Have anyone of you come across such a device?
Thanks in advance
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Hello Guys
I am working on a small onboardcomputer for my motorcycle. It shall display some information about the engine and motorcycle in general.
First I planned on developping custom hardware with custom written firmware. The hardware base would have been an ATmega32 with a normal BLE SoC (Blue Nano, for whoever it knows)
However, today a friend brought the idea up if I wouldn't want to realize it on top of android wear, as an app for it.
Of course, this would have several advantages:
1) Other android wear apps would be available too, for example routing, or the remote control over music etc.
2) My "Board Computer" would simply be an app, what is easier to maintain than custom built firmware (think about flashing etc).
3) Solid Base
However, I coulnd't find any informations about running android wear on other hardware than you buy it with.
For example I looked if I can find a tutorial about how to run android wear on a Odroid C1 (which can run the normal Android) but coulnd't find any answers.
Why is that?
Regards
Kittenrainbow
It doesn't seem like wear is much more efficient than android. Also, as much as you can do without your phone, there is still a need to pair it with your phone....
What kind of bike do you have? Does it have any sort of OBD equivalent?
Hey
Sorry, it took me a long time to reply.
Well, there doesn't seem to be a way to install Android wear on custom hardware anyway, so the plan is dead (I don't want it to be a hack, there should be a official, reliable way to obtain the software).
Yes, the bike has an ODB-like BUS (it isn't "real" ODB, but some sort of it. I can read some parameters out of it, but normal ODB Libraries aren't compatible with it).
So, what I'd like to to with my boardcomputer is the following (less important things in brackets).
The computer should be paired with the phone over bluetooth, so the smartphone can stay in the pocket
Control the music player of the smartphone
Show a map with the actual position
(Show navigation data, so with routing and everything)
The idea to use android wear was because it supports some of this without big hacks.
And I don't want to reinvent the wheel
Regards
Kittenrianbow
Why not just use another phone? Maybe even a custom mount for your current phone.
I am pretty sure you can control an android device with another android device. You can defiantly pull internet from one android to another via wifi hotspot. You could have all your music on it as well. You can find a cheap waterproof phone and custom mount it with a little fiberglass. This mount would even be removable. Anyway PM me if you want to talk about this further. I can help find all the apps you need.
Zeblaze Cosmo
Hands-on & Review
Main Features:
• 1.61 inch IPS full view 3D arc screen: 1.61 inch large IPS screen, easy to get the information; The arc is up to 1.4mm, gives you 160 degrees view range without turning over wrist.
• 22mm replaceable genuine leather band: The strap is replaceable, you can choose your favorite band to express your attitude and style.
• Heart rate monitor: Monitor your heart rate, let you know about your heart rate at anytime and anywhere.
• Call reminder: When a call is coming, it will remind you and you can answer it directly.
• Pedometer / Sleep monitor / Sedentary reminder: Take care of your life, help you develop good living habits.
• Remote camera / music: Control your smart phone to take phones and play music on your wrist.
• Information notification: Mail, Facebook, News etc. will all be pushed to the watch, you can real-time get information.
More information here
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Looks great! Deserve more attention
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yes, this is true
in reality looks more beautiful
I ordered it. I'm eagerly waiting for it! It's gorgeous than the crystal
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I ordered it. I'm eagerly waiting for it! It's gorgeous than the crystal
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great !
please share you thoughts when you get it.
tnx
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great
tnx :good:
I have had the Cosmos for a couple of months now.
I have had the Cosmos for a couple of months now and I am quite impressed with the quality of the build of this watch. I had problems at first with the watch disconnecting from the BT on my phone but after pairing the watch to my phone through the BT settings on my phone rather than the FunDo Wear and my phone asking if I wanted to make the watch a trusted BT device I have not had any pairing, connecting or syncing issues since. I have dumped the FunDo Wear app and tried a number of BT notification apps. The BT apps that have worked all where FunDo variations. I have ran the watch with out any BT notification apps at all but just by pairing to my phone with blue tooth alone. I was able to do things like stream music to the watch, make and receive phone calls and use the dialler on the watch all without any apps. The Cosmos hardware is capable of so much more than what can be done with the current FunDo variations. I can see this watch being able to do thing such as control my nest thermostat, control my Iluv led lights or even monitor my home security DVR if either android wear would support these watches or FunDo would step up their game and program a usable and stable sync app. As for the Cosmos watch itself, it is an impressive watch both in style and quality.
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I have had the Cosmos for a couple of months now and I am quite impressed with the quality of the build of this watch. I had problems at first with the watch disconnecting from the BT on my phone but after pairing the watch to my phone through the BT settings on my phone rather than the FunDo Wear and my phone asking if I wanted to make the watch a trusted BT device I have not had any pairing, connecting or syncing issues since. I have dumped the FunDo Wear app and tried a number of BT notification apps. The BT apps that have worked all where FunDo variations. I have ran the watch with out any BT notification apps at all but just by pairing to my phone with blue tooth alone. I was able to do things like stream music to the watch, make and receive phone calls and use the dialler on the watch all without any apps. The Cosmos hardware is capable of so much more than what can be done with the current FunDo variations. I can see this watch being able to do thing such as control my nest thermostat, control my Iluv led lights or even monitor my home security DVR if either android wear would support these watches or FunDo would step up their game and program a usable and stable sync app. As for the Cosmos watch itself, it is an impressive watch both in style and quality.
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Thanks for your opinion
I also tried to connect the watch with old phone and it worked. but the phone had to find the watch first. anyway I agree with you when you say
that the Zeblaze Cosmo is good quality watch :good:
I'd like to buy a smartwatch, however all that meet my requirements (AMOLED, waterproof) are stand-alone versions, with SIM card slot. I've notice that most of these watches do not support full phone synchronization. I'd like my watch to have functionality like: phone camera trigger, answering phone calls, answering SMS or WhatsApp messages...
If some of you can advice me how can I achieve that by external software, or what kind of smartwatch should I buy to meet those requirements, it would be great.
None of them will be able to make or receive calls properly through Bluetooth if that is what you are asking.
There is a reason for this. Google owns the api that allows this kind of interaction with Android. They will never allow it to be used on these watches. To google, these watches go against everything they are working on with Android Wear. They also protest that it is a security issue.
So, long story short - if you want full Bluetooth interactive mode you will need a Wear watch.
Not one of these Bluetooth pairing watches you find on Aliexpress. They also are not allowed to use these api's and cannot make or receive calls over Bluetooth.
If you find one that really works (a lot of them claim to but don't) I'd be interested ?
You might look at the Ticwatch 2. Nice looking watch and is licensed by Google - kind of......
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Have you looked at the Imacwear M7? It might be what you're looking for.
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Thanks @pablo11, however I can't say that I'm happy with what I've just read So it is not possible to implement this functionality in ROM or with the App?
Samsung watches overspend my budget
I completely don't get it! A 10$ smartwatch (like DZ-09) can answer phone calls and push notification two-way, and 100$ can't?
Hi,
I would like to buy smartwatch for up to 140$
It must have some functions like:
-showing who is calling
-showing prompts
-turn tu wake
-sending sms via bt
-calling via bt
-min 2 days on battery
-optionally waterproof
-if possible, android os
For now I've found 3 smartwatches wich are good enought
Ourtime X01s - not to good battery life, bad look, about 67$
No.01 d5+ - littlebit better battery life, realy good look, about 110$
Old samsung gear fit - good battery life, goid look, without android, less functions, about 50$
Do you have better watch than thoes or should I bou one of them?
Hi,
I bought the D5+. It is a good looking watch with approx. one day battery lifetime. But your points:
-sending sms via bt
-calling via bt
are not fulfilled by these watch. Also the companion app "Watch helper" is horrible according to the annoying BT connection interrupt alert, which is not possible to disable it.
I'm wondering if I will return these watch because of these issues.
Do you know if there are other companion apps which are working with the watch helper on the phone together? Or are there any costom roms for watches with MTK6580 chip available which are providing nearly all features for companion device and/or stand alone device? I'm using the D5+ as companion device to my smartphone. But there are many features which I'm missing.
Regarding my mentioned Watchhelper issue here a solution: https://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/xposed-watchhelper-fixer-finow-lemfo-t3557531
Hi,
I'm thinking of entering the smart watch world. I have researched a few but can't find one that caters for what I want but am sure it's out there.
The Zeblaze Thor 4 nearly was the one till I saw it doesn't track GPS when running (I'd like to ditch the phone when running etc).
So I'm looking for something that can be a phone outright not needing to be connected to smart phone. Tracks its own gps. Optional NFC. They are main things , cheers for any suggestions. :good:
What made you think you can't use GPS while running? Isn't it just a question of adding a screen-compatible tracking app, as I did on my older Zeblaze Blitz?