AsteroidOS 2.0 is here with a massive load of new features and support for many more watches.
Thank you to all contributors who made it possible!
Watch the visual demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6FiQz0yACc
Read the announcement: https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/
Enjoy the wrist-sized Linux ride!
I seem to have a tendency, a skill, a knack to choose and buy that specific hardware model that is not supported by these cool open source projects.
Same thing happened with PostmarketOS, I have a box full of old phones that are specifically not supported.
It's a really shitty superpower.
Looking at the list of supported watches, there are only 2 with 5 star support and they seem quite old / obscure. I couldn't find any to buy second hand anyway.
Nah, it is pretty much if you didn't buy one of 2 trendy models of the year, then nothing else has ever or will ever be supported (of course you can always write your own drivers but it is a ton of work, especially for non-coders)
I have a thought that a lot of the enthusiasts that go through the pain and effoet of writing all of these drivers for old phones they have were usually the kind of people to buy the best/most popular device of the year
we share the same superpower.
point it however, that is the nature of open source projects, just up to yourself willing to sacrifice time and hardware to test and integrate on your device.
I'd love to, but I have committed all my free time (all 120 minutes per week, it feels) to a project I started years ago and I need to finish.
Let me first congratulate the devs on this milestone. Not many niche projects with small appeal last this long but this is impressive. Now, if they can get this working on Garmin and Polar watches the ball will really start rolling.
This is all magic to me, but I getting contactleee payments on this and some form of music maps car projection from a linux phone and I would be all it.
I wish these guys luck.
I like the idea of a smartwatch, but I'm not accepting the Faustian bargain required to wear them. I can see my heart rate as long as Google can see my hearrate? No thanks, pass.
I fully agree with you in wanting to keep your health telemetry private. I too baulked at smart watches for the same reasons. I hate the idea of such info being collected by any company.
I've found GadgetBridge paired with a cheap smartwatch to be a good solution for me. It let's you keep your telemetry local and provides a GUI for the info I want: steps, heart rate, activity, sleep, etc.
It sounds like they have some support for AsteroidOS already too. They also claim "As of the next Gadgetbridge release, it should have full support for AsteroidOS, and feature-parity with AsteroidOSSync."
Can attest: Gadget Bridge with my PineTime is LEGIT.
Really curious if there's an upgraded watch experience though. This AsteroidOS sounds pretty neat. I miss those "pebble" watches.
I miss those "pebble" watches.
Oh that's so COO-(FLASHBANG LIGHT AND PINGING SOUND) - why'd it have to be a white webpage lmao. X_X A sign I should be sleeping lol.
Seriously this is awesome though, thanks for sharing this! Sounds like it could be a great upgrade from the PineTime some time. That was unexpectedly exciting!
If I'm not mistaken, some of the higher-end models from Polar and (maybe?) Garmin work independently of a smartphone.
Yup. I use a Garmin Fenix 6 Pro and I did not connect it to Garmin Connnect (which is basically just a frontend for all the data that i collected on Garmin’s servers).
You don’t get as much history on your watch but it still works perfectly fine. I don’t have notifications on my watch because I don’t want to so can’t attest to that. But otherwise works great.
Maybe you should add a small sentence what AsteroidOS is about. I can guess it from the pic, but not everyone sees that.
Can it track my sleep?
Just stare unblinking at a clock. When it suddenly jumps forwards several hours subtract the difference. Easy.
Doesn't work when crossing time zones or during daylight savings transitions.
Thanks for the tip, but I do need daylight savings and timezone crossing to work. I did already consider dedicating a room in my house to nothing but a chair, a wall clock and a calculator.
Not yet it seems. Also looks like it doesn't have a pedometer function. Hopefully a future version will add those, along with some way of downloading that data
I’d also love to see activity tracking too.
If it doesn’t support .beat time, I don’t care!
(Just kidding, always happy to see Linux in more places. But I do want my metric time.)
Bro, god damn. I have two Samsung watches and neither is supported 🤦🏽. They’re both older, too.
Wonder if they could work with an OEM to release a smartwatch with the OS. Chinese manufacturers have shown willingness to release open source based printers. Why not a smartwatch?
OK, looked at the questions, wondered myself.
Limited support, you can track health/sleep if you tie in gadgetbridge, no voice commands.
base features:
Agenda Alarm clock Calculator Music controller Settings Stopwatch Timer Weather app Up to 48 hours of battery
AsteroidOS 2.0 features:
Always‑on display Tilt‑to‑Wake Customizable QuickPanel Multiple launcher styles Nightstand mode Performance improvements Support for ~30 devices
https://asteroidos.org/ https://gadgetbridge.org/ (with active development for asteroid)
I only want Garmin support T.T
👀👀 uh? Do tell me more!
Excellent! I think I still have my fossil Gen 5.
Very interesting. I would love a way to use contactless payment.
Garmin vivo would be a great line to crack too.
Is there a collection of these projects? I have the world of old devices I woulf love to see if there are projects associated with them.
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