moWerk

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by moWerk 7mo ago
This is totally doable! The Always on Display screen can have colors and those do not impact the battery life much. Nothing hinders you to show a full color as AoD. There are some watches however that only support 4 colors in AoD mode. Name
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by moWerk 7mo ago
Full disclosure, i spent ~3 hours crafting this post to hit the tone i wanted to convey and am kind of proud of the wrist-size linux banger i came up with. I am usually not good with writing since it takes me ages and i might be a bit over
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by moWerk 7mo ago
This was a super encouraging and uplifting experience for everyone involved in the project. Thanks so much for providing this excellent platform.
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by moWerk 7mo ago
QML runs interpreted at runtime and Qt is very close to native C++, so both are actually quite lean and fast on these devices — the overhead is surprisingly small compared to full Android Wear, and we've tuned it heavily over the years
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by moWerk 7mo ago
While the PineTime/Infinitime is an awesome project everyone in our community roots for, the hardware platforms are totally different. The PineTime is microcontroller based and works on just 64KB memory and 512KB flash. AsteroidOS is a
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by moWerk 7mo ago
Perfect! Our Ring is libhybris, Sauron is the binary blob drivers the manufacturers cursed us with, and we're still hobbling toward mainline Mordor one old kernel backport at a time. One does not simply upstream a smartwatch driver.
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by moWerk 7mo ago
Fair suspicion in 2026 — but we actually started drafting that announcement in early 2023 before first committing it here: https://github.com/jrtberlin/aos2.0-post . As a non native speaker i sure ran my commits through
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by moWerk 7mo ago
With the latest devices its usually a problem that manufacturers choose to omit the usb pin outs in favor of water resistance and wireless charging. Making them a challenge to flash and still wear afterwards. Another issue is that we curre
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by moWerk 7mo ago
Nice, thanks for the bug report! I have made in issue in the stopwatch repo: https://github.com/AsteroidOS/asteroid-stopwatch/issues/13 We have implemented a wifi toggle in the quickpanel with 2.0. But the wi
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by moWerk 7mo ago
Thanks so much! The peek gesture is inherited from lipstick and we kind of built our UI around those possibilities.
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by moWerk 7mo ago
Usually the Ticwatch Pro 2018/2020 (catfish) is widely available since it was a popular model. The more recent version Ticwatch Pro 3 (rubyfish/rover) is freshly ported and not as well supported as the first Ticwatch Pro yet. I bo
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by moWerk 7mo ago
It would be possible to use Rust. Nobody got around working on it tbh. But simple things like your mentioned watchface idea are really quick to do in QML.
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by moWerk 7mo ago
Indeed quite some watches share the same platform as can be seen in this list: https://wiki.asteroidos.org/index.php/Technical_Details_of_A... But the manufacturers all cook their own soups and its surprising how much
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