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New watchface, weather, music control

A project log for Color Open Source Smartwatch

Reverse engineering the SMA-Q2 smartwatch to run open source firmware on it

emerythemeryth 01/21/2020 at 19:570 Comments

I decided to lay my pebble watch to rest, so now I am motivated to make the SMA-Q2 firmware actually useful.

I have designed a new watchface including current weather form Gadgetbridge. I have also added basic music control support, although the song info is not yet transmitted from the phone. That is because I need to decide on a protocol for transmitting large packets of data.

Along with those updates, I have also improved the current consumption, mostly by redrawing the screen only when it is needed. Consumption now oscillates around 1.5mA which should give about 5 days of battery life.


I can already see I will have to heavily modify the current graphics library (Nrf GFX) or find a better one.

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