I introduce the idea of Linux AsteroidOS open source sports watch. All components to start such a project are there. But which AsteroidOS watch to choose to start with? For a sports watch, GPS is helpful, but not urgently needed. To start with, an external heart rate sensor and a foot pod would be sufficient. According to the Asteroid IRC chat, some of the AsteroidOS watches have GPS (Sony Smartwatch 3 and Huawei Watch 2), but GPS is not supported from AsteroidOS just yet.
MagneFire from the AsteroidOS IRC chat says, he didn’t have a look into GPS, so will probably take some time. He further said, he did get GPS to at least scan on the Sony smartwatch 3, but that’s where it stopped. He couldn’t get a GPS location fix (source: AsteroidOS IRC Logs 13.4.2021) For anyone who is interested in developing an open source Linux AsteroidOS sports watch, it is possible.
I was searching for a long time for possibilities to access sports sensor data in an easy way. These days, many options are available for sensor streaming and visualization: MQTT, InfluxDB, Grafana, and more and more options are available for Python. With commercially available sports watches, to use these options is difficult. With an open source sports watch, this is much easier.
I made a long list of components which could be integrated into an open source sports watch on my GITHUB page:
https://github.com/PeterGamma/Live-stream-of-ANT-plus-and-BLE-sensor-data
to find all these components took a lot of time, and I make these findings here available for everyone.
GPS works too now on the Huawei Watch 2
MagneFire: from AsteroidOS chat: “Ok so GPS works too now on the Huawei Watch 2, but it does not stop even after closing the asteroid-gps-test app. Is this a known issue for other watches?”
AsteroidOS IRC Logs 14.4.2021
GPS works too now on the Huawei Watch 2. That is good news. Maybe an athlete with good coding skills knows about how to solve the GPS issue? GPS makes the Huawei Watch 2 interesting to be used as a sports watch.
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Hello everybody!
It's about two days that I'm trying to find a good smartwatch for my needs without results.
I would like to buy an independent Android 5.1 smartwatch I can also track my activity with. I saw that most of these products (no. 1 d6, kw88, zeblaze blitz, etc) have hr, altimeter, barometer, gyroscope and other useful sensor but they have a dummy app that checks heart rate only when you ask for it and a pedometer (I don't understand if it works continuously or only when you open the app).
Do you know if one of them does support other apps with whom I could monitor my daily steps (without keeping an app opened on the screen) but also run, bike, and maybe gym exercises?
Thank you and sorry for my bad English.
Any suggestions? I'm not sure but I think I read something about some smartwatch that could support usage of sensors by fitness apps as Google fit...
CamilloCorleone said:
Any suggestions? I'm not sure but I think I read something about some smartwatch that could support usage of sensors by fitness apps as Google fit...
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Google Fit works on the watch as does other exercise recording apps such as Wahoo Fitness. GPS works OK, heart rate does not work with any 3rd part apps as far as I can tell. So I use a BLE heart rate strap paired to the watch.
I'm looking to develop an app that can run on a low-cost full Android smartwatch - like a Kospet or Lemfo - that can take continuous readings from the built-in heart rate monitor (HRM). Does anyone know through experience if these sensors can be made accessible to a third app and if so, how?
Hi fellows
I need your help
I bought some WITMOTION sensors (USB and BLE) wich includes accelerometer, gyro and other cool things)
They have sample code APK to pair / read data from their hardware, that's ok but....
... what I really need is to broadcast that data (if possible) to android kernel, to ensure that apks like GMaps, Waez, Torque pro (accelerometer) and other stuff use that data as if the data came from embedded Android sensors.
Do you think that this project is doable ?
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Hi
Found this tread and was hoping you had a win with the search for information as I am thinking of getting a 9 axis WitMotion sensor to use with an android car head unit that has no built in magnometer.
Cheers
GitHub - vicnevicne/witmotionDemoAndroidApp: Source of the Android app demonstrating use of Witmotion IMU sensors
Source of the Android app demonstrating use of Witmotion IMU sensors - GitHub - vicnevicne/witmotionDemoAndroidApp: Source of the Android app demonstrating use of Witmotion IMU sensors
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I'd like to develop an application for a smart watch which will periodically turn on & off sensors on the watch/band, ala microphone/camera/etc, record their activity, do minimal processing and store the result on the watch/band. This result will be uploaded to the mobile phone when a bluetooth connection is established.
To my best understanding, this can only be done with Tizen/WearOS/FitbitOS, not with other watch operating systems such as Huami's ones (Amazfit/Xiami MI/etc). This also means that it's a (big) watch and not a (small) band that is suitable for the above.
Is this correct and how to do this otherwise if it's wrong?
How much of a hassle it is to do this in WearOS for a seasoned professional programmer who is a complete noob in WearOS/smartwatches/mobile devices?
Can we develop a headless app that runs constantly?
Are there any tutorials on the subject?