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The Oral-B app was fun a few years ago when it was fairly lightweight, showed an up-to-date current world events news feed, while logging data into apple health
by 0x0 2y ago
The Oral-B app was fun a few years ago when it was fairly lightweight, showed an up-to-date current world events news feed, while logging data into apple health and encouraging a brushing streak. Then they rewrote the entire app and it lost almost all of those features. I never opened the app once after the first run after the upgrade. Really makes me wish for an iOS app store that would allow installing older versions, like testflight does (up to 90 days only, unfortunately). Maybe it's time to break out a BLE sniffer... although I'm sure getting a HealthKit entitlement for a one-off unlicensed adhoc app is impossible :(
- zyberzero 2y agoThe protocol has already been reverse engineered. I’m using Home Assistant with bluetooth and it picks up one of my neighbour’s Oral-B toothbrush…
- nabla9 2y agoCan you reprogram or remote update the toothbrush? I mean, if it has vibration or sound, you might be able make it talk or play music.
- alentred 2y ago> showed an up-to-date current world events news feed Say what now? Oral-B? World events news feed?
- cj 2y agoADA recommends brushing your teeth for 4 minutes a day (2 mins morning/night). 2 minutes feels incredibly long for a lot of people. Doing something that feels productive or provides 2 minutes of entertainment while simultaneously operating as a timer seems like not so crazy of an idea.
- alentred 2y agoOooh! Thank you, it makes much more sense now. It is weird, though, that we humans need to be distracted to focus on brushing the teeth.
- prmoustache 2y ago> 2 minutes feels incredibly long for a lot of people. The tiktok generation. What happens to good old sand timer technology?
- obrhoff 2y agoThank you! I worked on that one. For the rest of the discussion I’ll stay quite now