Last Updated on November 1, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org
All components are already there to build a Asteroid sports watch for instance with the Huawei 2 watch
Huawei watch 2 as an open source Linux AsteroidOS sports watch
But a miss a new watch with AsteroidOS as a basis for a sports watch. Kingwear K87 is new, and has an AsteroidOS port by Chandler Swift. But according to the AsteroidOS chat, the Bluetooth stack is a mess. For external Bluetooth low energy sensors, BLE is important. I miss a high quality watch with an AsteroidOS port, for instance a port for a Fossil watch as a basis for an open source sports watch.
According to the Asteroid IRC chat, the bootloader of the new Xiaomi watch cannot be unlocked.The new Fossil watch is an alternative
Fossil Smartwatch on AsteroidOS reddit:
«Hey, im planning on getting a Fossil gen 5 and looking for ways to hack it. Is it possible to get Asteroid OS working on it? I haven’t seen the watch in the porting status, neither in working nor in not working
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Hi, in theory, it should be possible to port Asteroid to it.
The porting status page contains only watches that got requested or someone worked on. We can not really answer the question if a port is possible at this point because we do not have basic Infos about the device.
That being said, there are a few preconditions.
- There needs to be a way to talk to the bootloader to flash ROMs or boot a different kernel. This is almost always done via USB on these watches. So you would need to open up the watch to find out if there are pads for USB or similar (see my post about the gen 3).
- Kernel sources are a requirement as you need to recompile it with a different configuration. According to this spreadsheet and some searching I can not see the codename of the board. You would need to connect via ADB or boot into fastboot mode to get this info.
- A ROM dump / official firmware image or root access are important as they simplify the port a lot.
Hope this answers your question somewhat. Let me know if you want to know something specific. You are also welcome to join the IRC channel if you need help in the process (note that answers on IRC can take a while as they are written by volunteers in their free time and possibly are in a different time zone than you).
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Yeah that definitely clear some questions. I dont intend to open up the watch just yet, but I’ll keep it in my for later. Thanks!”
source: reddit
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/fossil-sports-watch-with-asteroid-os.4264417/
Peter Gamma 20.4.2021 9:29