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I follow activity monitors rather closely. The wifi connectivity is the most unusual part of this design. There's never been a nice, simple way to setup wifi
by swamp40 13y ago
I follow activity monitors rather closely. The wifi connectivity is the most unusual part of this design.
There's never been a nice, simple way to setup wifi from a small device before.
The trick they are using here is to use the Bluetooth connection to setup the wifi. It's not a bad approach (in fact, they like it so much they're trying to patent it).
But TI recently came out with the CC3000, a wifi chip that can grab the setup information on its own (well, with the help of a smartphone app).
This avoids the hassles of managing two different 2.4GHz wireless systems on a small device.
I think that's where the future of wifi setup is heading.
- mietek 13y agoWithings have been using the dual Bluetooth/Wi-Fi approach for a while.
- cschneid 13y agoThe fitbit aria scale had a clever way to set itself up. As far as I could tell, it had my computer join a known network, and broadcast the SSID & Password that my computer already knew off to the scale. So the scale gets put in setup mode, and listens for that temp network. At least that's what it appeared to be doing when I set it up....