Finding little information on this, i'd like to be able to use tasker to trigger things such as notifications or audio on the watch or send events to my phone, and preferable some mor eadvanced things so i can use the watch with my home automation, has anyone played around with this? i saw someone mention side loading apps somewhere but i lost the post, as i understand it LiteOS is a version of android so being able to load Tasker directly onto the watch would be nice.
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I live in a rural area where my best chance of getting service relies on having my phone shoved in a window. However, I carry a Samsung Gear Live on a daily basis, and it's very convenient and capable.
Because of where my phone is placed, I often have no access to it, and I do a lot of things at home that don't warrant wearing a watch, not to mention it's not exactly comfortable. Because of this, I've searched for various solutions to the problem of using my phone when I'm away from the phone. Thus far, there's obvious options like AirDroid, but that's unappealing since you need to leave this tab open at all times.
Yappy was an idea, but what made it most painful is it hardly ever sent my texts, and there was no configuration or history for the notifications when it passed through. Apparently, Microsoft's Cortana can integrate with the phone to allow notifications and texting from the PC.
What just baffles me is... why is there no app or extension that just uses the Wear API? Am I missing something, or is there just nothing out there that can connect via the Wear API, to offer as many features as a Wear watch, and not need to do much more than that? I imagine a simple app that connects like that would work just fine. I do understand the case of there being Wear apps that it would wanna use, but I also know that 4.4W was very rudimentary. So rudimentary, I couldn't even install much more than a Wear Bottle Spinner app. No new watch faces, no Skype or Music integration. It's so simple, I could imagine someone using the basic 4.4W framework to create an app to connect to Android Wear.
I'm unimpressed by the existence of apps that do their own thing, like Desktop Notifications, or Yappy, that ask you to use their apps together to achieve the best results. A Chrome extension, a Windows application, something simple that just connects with Android Wear over Wi-Fi. I think it's so simple, but so capable.
Have I just not searched enough? Am I missing something, a core aspect that makes it impossible to use the API in a simple Chrome extension, or has there just been no one who wanted to do it?
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I live in a rural area where my best chance of getting service relies on having my phone shoved in a window. However, I carry a Samsung Gear Live on a daily basis, and it's very convenient and capable.
Because of where my phone is placed, I often have no access to it, and I do a lot of things at home that don't warrant wearing a watch, not to mention it's not exactly comfortable. Because of this, I've searched for various solutions to the problem of using my phone when I'm away from the phone. Thus far, there's obvious options like AirDroid, but that's unappealing since you need to leave this tab open at all times.
Yappy was an idea, but what made it most painful is it hardly ever sent my texts, and there was no configuration or history for the notifications when it passed through. Apparently, Microsoft's Cortana can integrate with the phone to allow notifications and texting from the PC.
What just baffles me is... why is there no app or extension that just uses the Wear API? Am I missing something, or is there just nothing out there that can connect via the Wear API, to offer as many features as a Wear watch, and not need to do much more than that? I imagine a simple app that connects like that would work just fine. I do understand the case of there being Wear apps that it would wanna use, but I also know that 4.4W was very rudimentary. So rudimentary, I couldn't even install much more than a Wear Bottle Spinner app. No new watch faces, no Skype or Music integration. It's so simple, I could imagine someone using the basic 4.4W framework to create an app to connect to Android Wear.
I'm unimpressed by the existence of apps that do their own thing, like Desktop Notifications, or Yappy, that ask you to use their apps together to achieve the best results. A Chrome extension, a Windows application, something simple that just connects with Android Wear over Wi-Fi. I think it's so simple, but so capable.
Have I just not searched enough? Am I missing something, a core aspect that makes it impossible to use the API in a simple Chrome extension, or has there just been no one who wanted to do it?
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Hi, I've asked this question on reddit but it seems like no one even saw my post - no comments, no up/down-votes.
I can't find anywhere three apps that do everything as I want.
1) A note syncing app. I want to be able to write something or take a picture and be able to see it on my watch. I sometimes need to glance at something so it would be perfect on a watch. The app should be like Google Keep but would let me zoom into photos (Keep doesn't) and wouldn't crop pictures on my round screen (Keep crops). The app's purpose doesn't necessarily have to be notes syncing but I should be able to do something like that.
2) Habits tracking app. Or app where you can reactivate to-do lists every day. It would be great if it also remembered how often I do the tasks. On my phone I used Loop Habits Tracker app but it doesn't work on wear.
3) Calorie counter for wear (like my fitness pal).
Please help me! Those three are the main things I want to do on my watch and I can't!
I just don't understand why no one responded. No suggestions, no replies saying 'they don't exist' or 'you could sideload <this> because it works perfectly". Nothing. Silence. Here and on reddit.
A few days ago I purchased my Withings (by Nokia) Steel HR, which is one of these new cool-looking smartwatches, with continuous heart monitor and 25 days battery life.
However, it comes in a quite closed environment (virtually no settings anywhere) and only works with the Withings app, which is quite poorly integrated.
I'm easily thinking of a ton of features to be added directly or indirectly, which brings me to the wish to use it with other apps and to mod its software. (A first thing would be to be able to change the frequency at which heart readings are taken, and to be able to export raw data to my phone which are not available at the moment)
Any aspiring (or experienced) dev out there with this smartwatch?
By the way, mods aside I honestly think that this watch is full of potential and its software will receive many updates in the future, so be sure to check it out if you're looking to buy a smartwatch in the near future (This is not an ad, but it would be great to build up an xda community around this! )
I'm getting this watch as well. Let's hope it will have development potential
Hi,
I have this watch as well. I have been trying to sniff the BLE protocol, to send my hr to apps like Runtastic, without success.
A quick note worth mentioning: this watch shows you three types of notifications (plus alarms): sms, calendar, and phone calls. While you can't "fake" sms and phone calls, you can create as many calendar events as you want.
In other words, do you want to see weather updates on your watch? put together something like a Tasker task or an IFTTT recipe that automatically creates a google calendar event with the information you want displayed as the title, and you're done. Combine it with Tasker to ignore/remove the notification on your smartphone and voila', any-notifications on our withings steel hr
cheers
Hi! So I've had this wonderful watch for a few days. Finally getting everything set up, having to use Nova and custom actions, didn't like any of the clockskin faces.
Anyway, a couple of things that I can't figure out and might be related to other watches like this:
1) Google Fit won't count steps. The pedometer is on in settings, when I install the app it updates and shows the steps from my phone. But then, nothing. Doesn't update at all. Is there a workaround? Maybe use another pedometer app to link to Fit?
2) Google Fit and a few other apps I tried can't read the heartrate sensor that the built in (bad) app can. Is there a workaround?
I think all my problems are that this watch doesn't know it's a watch, it thinks it's a phone. I wish we could get custom ROMs on this, I'd seriously pay 30 bucks for someone to get Wear / Open Wear on this!
Sorry, I don't have any workarounds for the Google Fit issues. I do have a question though, how are you getting the watch notifications to show? I installed Nova as well and can't seem to get any of the system notifications to show.
I too would be happy to pay for a ROM.
Hi,
not sure if this would be possible at all.
But I notice that I can connect my smart watch to PC via bluetooth, and was wondering if there was a way to do stuff like tapping the watch screen, and something would happen on the PC.
Eg. play music, open a browser, put the computer to sleep....etc. etc.
it would just be handy if there was a very common task, that you could simply tap your watch screen.
I got a cheap smart watch here, and maybe it's not possible with this watch, and I may need a more expensive watch.
But I am using windows 10, and I presume some sort of script would need to be written in windows to achieve this.
I know it;s a strange one, but if anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd be interested in looking into it further.