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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: TinyScreen Smartwatch

« on: March 19, 2015, 05:48:14 PM »

I install the app from codebench
https://codebender.cc/sketch:91833#TinyScreen_Smartwatch.ino

And use the copiled APK on a Nexus 5 too. The app do not see the URT advertiser and crash when clicking on an other (Shine, StickNFind, ...).

If you added the TinyScreen Smartwatch code recently, it should be advertising the name BLEWatch instead of URT, Ben Rose was kind enough to change the name to something more appropriate to its code. The Shine and StickNFind aren't compatible with the TinyCircuits app and the app doesn't currently have a graceful way of failing.

Make sure you're using the most recent version of the Smartwatch files from CodeBender and when it starts up look for BLEWatch. It should be there.

I'm using your compiled one. Again, it launches fine but when I click on the BLEWatch the app just crashes.

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: TinyScreen Smartwatch

« on: March 19, 2015, 10:44:00 AM »

Ah, OK. Gotcha. I'd like to get the Android app working. The phone is an Galaxy S II (SGH-T989).

Sadly even though the S2 shipped with a Broadcom chipset capable of bluetooth 4.0, it was never enabled in software. Part of this is because Android had no default support for Bluetooth 4.0 till nearly 2 years later and by that time the chipset was so outdated writing software to make it work was not a priority.

The S3 was the first Android phone with software support for 4.0 and it wasn't even widely used because Samsung had to make their own support for it, a support that was entirely different from Google's own implimention nearly a year later.

Edit: Turns out Broadcom wrote their own drivers for it and it can be used in Android 4.3(The version of Android that first supported bluetooth 4.0). Only downside is that you have to root and install a newer rom for it to work. From the sounds of it CM11 should support this.

TL;DR: To the best of my knowledge there's simply no easy way to make this work with the S2 without rooting.

Source: I worked for Best Buy selling phones for 4 years.

OK. Thanks for this. I was able to get a brand new phone and the app launched. I saw BLEWatch but whenever I tried to connect it kept crashing. At the watch time is still incorrect but when I press a button on the side it now says "No Notifications" which it didn't say before.

I tried to send a text to the phone and see if it showed a notification but it still says no notifications even thought I got the text.

The phone is a Nexus 5 running 5.1

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: TinyScreen Smartwatch

« on: March 19, 2015, 10:27:09 AM »

Ah, OK. Gotcha. I'd like to get the Android app working. The phone is an Galaxy S II (SGH-T989).

Sadly even though the S2 shipped with a Broadcom chipset capable of bluetooth 4.0, it was never enabled in software. Part of this is because Android had no default support for Bluetooth 4.0 till nearly 2 years later and by that time the chipset was so outdated writing software to make it work was not a priority.

The S3 was the first Android phone with software support for 4.0 and it wasn't even widely used because Samsung had to make their own support for it, a support that was entirely different from Google's own implimention nearly a year later.

Edit: Turns out Broadcom wrote their own drivers for it and it can be used in Android 4.3(The version of Android that first supported bluetooth 4.0). Only downside is that you have to root and install a newer rom for it to work. From the sounds of it CM11 should support this.

TL;DR: To the best of my knowledge there's simply no easy way to make this work with the S2 without rooting.

Source: I worked for Best Buy selling phones for 4 years.

OK. Thanks for this. I was able to get a brand new phone and the app launched. I saw BLEWatch but whenever I tried to connect it kept crashing. At the watch time is still incorrect but when I press a button on the side it now says "No Notifications" which it didn't say before.

I tried to send a text to the phone and see if it showed a notification but it still says no notifications even thought I got the text.

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: TinyScreen Smartwatch

« on: March 18, 2015, 05:59:30 PM »

The time doesn't tick over without a sync because of the "&& timeStatus()==timeSet" condition that is checked before updating the screen when it's on. Once it has been connected to the Android app or you remove that condition, it will update every second when the display is on until it shuts off after five seconds- you can change displayUpdateInterval and sleepTimeout if you don't like that.

If you can post more details about your Android phone and why the app is crashing, I can try to fix it. Once the app is connected, it will set the date/time and send basic text/phone call notifications to the watch. That's all the example does for now.

Ah, OK. Gotcha. I'd like to get the Android app working. The phone is an Galaxy S II (SGH-T989).
Android version 4.1.2
Baseband Version: T989UVMC6
Kernel Version: 3.0.31-1003885
Build Number: Jz054k.t989uvmc6

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: TinyScreen Smartwatch

« on: March 18, 2015, 09:52:44 AM »

I'm not sure if I am missing something or not but I was able to load the TinyWatch code up just fine from the sample code on Codebender but I only see it showing the time which doesn't refresh until the screen shuts off and then when you turn it back on it shows the new time.

Is this the only feature?

ALso, I wasn't able to get it to show the time properly. It had January 1st and 00:00:00 - I saw something about sync'ing it with the android app to do it properly but the android app just keeps crashing on me. I tried the uART program on the iPhone and I was able to successfully connect but didn't know the hex codes or whatever was necessary to set the time properly.

It's a bummer it doesn't count the time in real time and the screen needs to go off and on again before showing the updated time.

Again, maybe I am missing something and there are a lot more features in the sample smart watch code so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.