Hi all,

Simple question. Does anybody know a (not to expensive) sportswatch that is supported by Linux / FOSS software?

(Yes, I know ‘FOSS software’ is two times the word software) 😀

  • KaninchenSpeed@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    He ordered it from the global store a few month ago, it took ~2-3 weeks to ship to germany.

    Thats the only issues he told me. I also tried it for a day and didnt notice anything else it cant do, which i need. He and I only need it to show notifications/calls, track steps/heart rate, have a working alarm and show the time. I also didnt have the disconnect and notification issues, that he had.

    • Shareni@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      Lucky guy, I ordered it to Germany and they wouldn’t let me use the non-eu warehouse (so they can get rid of their overpriced stock I’m guessing)

      Stopwatch - can’t be minimised, can’t see the time while it’s open, restarts when you get a notification (the fixes have been sitting in the PRs for years)

      Notifications - don’t get cleared when you clear them on the phone, clearing them on the watch doesn’t close the notifications screen, answering your phone through the watch doesn’t dismiss the call notification

      Heart rate monitor - essentially useless since it can’t take periodic measurements, doesn’t work great unless you’re wearing the watch on the inside of your hand, but at least they’ve managed to finally read the sensor docs and program it correctly

      Step syncing is a massive pain in the ass and often requires you to “manually” sync them by walking around while keeping both devices active

      Battery barely lasts longer than a week even with infrequent wearing (and that’s a massive improvement over the previous 3-4 days max)

      Lift to wake up usually acts more like shake to wake

      The UI is pretty bad overall

      There are like 2 half decent watch faces

      Horrific weight distribution and the shitty strap make it feel 10x heavier. Like, my automatic is almost 2x its weight and I barely feel it, while this crap is constantly reminding me it’s there.

      The CPP OS doesn’t let you chose what apps to activate nor does it have any way to load your code aside from compiling everything

      Updates are only mostly headache free if you use specific PC software. Keyword is mostly, I’ve had some updates take a bunch of attempts to install.

      That’s just from the top of my head