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These are great ideas that might actually be in the realm of feasibility (assuming your IoT devices run on some open standard), but the shame with this kind of

These are great ideas that might actually be in the realm of feasibility (assuming your IoT devices run on some open standard), but the shame with this kind of thing in 2021 is that most of my digital life does not run on open standards, and so a programmable device has limited usefulness. I probably couldn't use it to play or control my media, to control my other (non-custom) devices, to display information from social media or from my bank accounts or tap into my subscriptions or interface with my personal cloud data. There are some exceptions and workarounds - most of them based on the web and web scraping - but most of those give you the sense that they only still exist because the company forgot about them, or doesn't care enough to retire them Walled-gardens have made it really hard to do novel things in your personal digital life

IgorPartola 6y ago
Even if your IoT doesn’t, I recently discovered Home Assistant which can basically tie together most IoT devices out there and give you a consistent platform to work against. A Raspberry Pi 4 is all you really need to get it going or you can even run it inside a Docker container. If you want IoT hardware you can control, check out Tasmota’s supported hardware list. Guys hardware often times can be easily flashed with it as it is all ESP8266 based, though some disassembly is required. Same with Sonoff products. Some really exciting possibilities here.
johnwyles 6y ago
Home Assistant + Node Red ~= 95% of anything I have ever needed of IoT (and this watch could tie into by extension). Albeit, I have put in easily >120 hours of work over the past couple of years to get it there, I still think it's mostly the answer to the issues you mention.
SilverRed 6y ago
Half of this stuff could trivially be done on the Apple watch if you develop an iphone app for it. It would be nice if Apple opened it up to allow custom watchfaces but its already pretty open as it is.
- ehnto 6y ago
  The Samsung watches can do it all and custom watch faces, but both aren't really the same premise as Watchy. Like someone else mentioned, it's more like an arduino on your wrist. An apple watch or samsung watch are tightly bound to a higher level ecosystem. I can't even be bothered setting up the tooling to develop on Tizen anymore. Such a pain in the ass.

IgorPartola 6y ago

Even if your IoT doesn’t, I recently discovered Home Assistant which can basically tie together most IoT devices out there and give you a consistent platform to work against. A Raspberry Pi 4 is all you really need to get it going or you can even run it inside a Docker container. If you want IoT hardware you can control, check out Tasmota’s supported hardware list. Guys hardware often times can be easily flashed with it as it is all ESP8266 based, though some disassembly is required. Same with Sonoff products. Some really exciting possibilities here.

johnwyles 6y ago

Home Assistant + Node Red ~= 95% of anything I have ever needed of IoT (and this watch could tie into by extension). Albeit, I have put in easily >120 hours of work over the past couple of years to get it there, I still think it's mostly the answer to the issues you mention.

SilverRed 6y ago

Half of this stuff could trivially be done on the Apple watch if you develop an iphone app for it. It would be nice if Apple opened it up to allow custom watchfaces but its already pretty open as it is.

ehnto 6y ago
The Samsung watches can do it all and custom watch faces, but both aren't really the same premise as Watchy. Like someone else mentioned, it's more like an arduino on your wrist. An apple watch or samsung watch are tightly bound to a higher level ecosystem. I can't even be bothered setting up the tooling to develop on Tizen anymore. Such a pain in the ass.