Hacking Your Smartwatch: Building an Open Wearables Ecosystem
summary
Open-source wearable tooling: PineTime, Bangle.js, AsteroidOS and Amazfish are shown with concrete specs and tradeoffs — PineTime: Nordic SoC 64 MHz, 64 KB RAM, InfiniTime firmware, Bangle.js: Espruino JS, GPS, ~2 week battery. Amazfish is a Qt app plus libwatchfish that implements notifications and MPRIS music control across Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish (Qt 5.6) and Flatpak/desktop (Qt 5.15). Porting uses platform-specific QRCs and build flavors; background services, call control and Flatpak background delivery remain incomplete and only ~15 watches are supported so far.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Hacking smartwatches
- 3:01Recommended devices
- 12:57Cross-platform smartwatch app
- 21:25Smartwatch app challenges
- 27:24Secure fitness data sharing
- 29:54Simulators and hardware hacking
- 33:05Proprietary smartwatch hurdles
- 34:50Open payments on wearables
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