Hello everyone.
Does anyone know if there is any new development in smart watch compatibility with sailfish OS
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Hi @ltrxphn and welcome on SF OS Forums!
Have you already seen the discussion Looking for SFOS3 compatible watch on the old forum?
https://asteroidos.org/install/bass/
Its not directly SFOS, but another free and open source Android alternative, and it looks quite promising. Otherwise there is Pinetime, but the hardware does really allow real os to run on it
Unfortunately, there is still no working syncing app for asteroidos in SFOS. In the past the development of its “starfish” client (bad naming since there is an unrelated app with the same name) was stopped due to missing crucial features in the Bluetooth stack.
There was a change in the system with the 3.1 update I think, but nobody could tell me if this resolved the issue for starfish, and I guess the asteroidos developers probably aren’t aware of it.
No I haven’t . Thank you.
I guess no wear os watches then.
Amazfish is available on Openrepos : https://openrepos.net/content/piggz/amazfish
It supports Amazfit smarwatches, including the Bip, GTS, some MiBand.
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Returning to this thread to inquire after the Jolla Watch. Whatever happened to it? Is there an old version of the software floating around somewhere? I’m currently a happy Pebble/Rockpool user but am interested in other SFOS-compatible and non-Google/Amazon options.
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Try something from the Amazfit range. I have GTR2 which I’m petty happy with using the Amazfish app. I hade a Pebble Steel and a Pebble 2 prior to this and used Rockpool. The Pebble 2 cannot connect to Rockpool and there you cannot take advantage of the Health monitor functions. These work well on the GTR2.
The Amazfish developer, Adam (Piggz) is very responsive to bugs/improvements. I think you’ll find an Amazfit device which will be a worthy successor to your Pebble.
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I’m using a GTR and Amazfish and it works great!
I don’t know much about AsteroidOS and I never used it, but I noticed their Starfish-App was renamed to Starship and can also beer found on Openrepos.
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Well, it can be found, but there are no packages available, so it can’t be installed. I think it still has issues with the bluetooth connection.
Oh yes you seem right! I never went so far to actually try download it:-)
According to their github issue tracker at least the connection problems appear to have been solved…
Is Rockpool still alive?
I ask as we’re about to get new PebbleOS devices…
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It took them quite some time, but now they’re public.
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For me the Bangle.js 2 is working mostly.
Mostly as in, notifications work…and that’s pretty much what I use it for; nothing like health data or features like that are actually working together with Amazfish atm…
I’m also interested in the new Pebble’s, I’ve always like the old Pebbles (still got a Steel in a drawer), but I’d like proper native or Amazfish support for it.
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Why not use Rockpool? My Pebble Steel died last year, but until that point it worked beautifully on Rockpool. The fact that it supports many/most apps on the Pebble (which often require a counterpart on the mobile, for internet access and configuration purposes) is a testament on why open protocols matter - and of course great software developers 
Amazfish could also provide support, but given its more generic approach it might not achieve the same level of integration as with the Pebble on Rockpool.
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To be honest? I wasn’t aware of it’s existence, I thought Amazfish was the only thing out there!
I’m going to be fetching it from said drawer, try and find the charger and a non-crooked wrist strap, and see if I can get any life out of it! 
edit: It’s charging, still alive, I forgot the lovely animations 
can’t find the metal strap atm, but got several other ones… will look into setting up Rockpool tomorrow and see about things like firmware. Apparently it’s the Kickstarter edition 
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i would be delighted if we got a pebble steel 2.
i liked the form factor so much more than plastic slab of the OG pebbles.
I can report that the Pebble Steel (Kickstarter edition) with 4.4.0-rbl firmware works well with Rockpool to this day.
Some random remarks:
- Had to pair using system bluetooth settings with non-LE, the LE variant didn’t work
- Had to install a prerequisite before Rockpool would install
- The “Open Bluetooth settings” within Rockpool seems broken on the latest SFOS version
- Weather settings seem to be broken, no location gets requested and no city name gets autocompleted
Overall support, notification, settings, etc. seem better than using Bangle.js 2 with Amazfish
edit: odd, I see now that Rockpool 1.16 got installed from OpenRepos rather than 1.17
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does Rockpool still have a developer?
I also preordered a pebble and will try as soon as it arrives.
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