A new innovative firmware written from the ground up for the watchy
This 3> minute demo was heavily compressed, so it looks like it looks. The speed is also messed up because of missing frames
Apart from code things, here are the key features for now:
- Easy to install demo (no compiling!)
- Full weather info via open meteo api in charts, 16 day forecast
- Calendar: Bare bones show of events, their time and description from an ICS file (So any calendar should sync)
- A book reader
- with pages changable by moving your hand
- Support for many books
- Working, uncomplete watchface
- Watchface modules (Apps which are shown on the watchface directly). COnfigured to be shown on the bottom of the watchface. They can be configured as "dissmissable" so
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Bitcoin module, which shows some data, here is an example:
- Now it also has a "Big" mode to be truly a "bitclock"
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A simple net module which just shows wifi status and SSID. It's more of an example imlementation than a serious module (for now)
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A conway game of life module - which updates every minute
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- Watchface modules (Apps which are shown on the watchface directly). COnfigured to be shown on the bottom of the watchface. They can be configured as "dissmissable" so
- Debug menus to check on things on the fly
- Battery life features:
- Configurable wake up every x minutes at night. This is configurable via recompiling, at default it's between 23-06 every 45 minutes
- A menu to manually, or after certain battery percantage drop enable these features:
- Disable wake up - The watch will sleep until you press a button
- Disable all vibrations (For button clicks) - Spikes caused by the motor are heavy for the battery
- A "vault" which allows to save encrypted images to the watchy and view them if provided the correct PIN. All generated dynamically via a script. Uses AES128 cbc/ecb. Example use is a backup phone book, bitcoin key backup in the form of a QR code
- Reset cause shower. If your battery will be the cause of a reset, you will be informed about it on boot.
I integrated https://github.com/risinek/esp32-wifi-penetration-tool to this firmware as a service. I won't provide support for it or give any advice how to use it. Use for your own responsibility, don't do illegall stuff. Seriously.https://github.com/ckcr4lyf/EvilAppleJuice-ESP32 too. the same story as above.Those 2 options were removed because I updated the build system and didn't bother to make it work with it, with some cmake you should be able to easily re-add those features, I you can't use cmake, then you shouldn't probably use either of those features anyway
It doesn't use the watchy sub-class but it uses the same libraries. With that in mind, those are further diffrences from other firmwares: Every small text is a reason why I was mad enough to rewrite everything myself...
- It's splitted into files and folders In my opinion a file that has 5k lines is heresy
- It's function - not object based for the reason above and to make it easier for beginners to use
- It uses free rtos tasks where needed
- All resources like images, fonts, books are converted into variables dynamically via scripts. Editing images, changing font spacing is just one click. I can't believe I was the first to make this that way
- The Ui is dynamically written. There are functions to do it eassly. Adding a new menu is just a few lines for exampleIt's not just a collection of drawBitmap
- It has a "manager" and design for various apps to run eassly
- Has logs via serial. They can be disabled that they don't get compiled with changing one define - and the code doesn't look bad because it's a macro. Amazing Yea, this is a feature compared to other ones I have looked at
- Uses libraries instead of pure calls to NTP or open weather
- Many configurable values via defines in config.h
- Many debugging tools in config.h
- Most UI is rendered only when needed / values it's showing changed. Good for battery life
- Proper variable naming and camelCase everywhere
- LittleFS is used instead of NVS. Which means better code, logs in file system. Resources not uploaded on every program change. Awesome
- Various tasks which speed up the debugging / development process (
resources/tools/other/tasks)
Watchy 2.0 is supported, 1.0 or 1.5 should too but less used, less tested
Watchy 3.0 is now also fully supported, thanks to the community :)
Don't try anything by yourself without the wiki, you will probably fail.
Head out to the wiki
This was the first thing I have written and asked myself if I should release it for free. Well here we are ;)
This is a passion project at this point. To help an open source developer - who is still a student and motivate him to create this software feel free to donate
Here is my libera pay. Direct paypall is also a option.
Oh and as it seems bitcoin is also preferred, just contact me and ask me for an address because creating a new address for every transaction is more secure, right?
For a small coffe donation I can manage your firmware and provide you personalised binaries, if you can't compile it yourself, even add some features for you
Create a github issue or get in touch with me on Quill OS or *atchy community discord servers
or via matrix: @szybet:matrix.org
- GuruSR - I used some of his awesome libraries and looked at the code for how the watchy hardware should be handled. Also answered a few questions on discord. Thanks!
- Prokuon - I really liked the design of this watchface and almost coppied it. Thanks! - well the code is completly diffrent
- Jason2866 - Help with solving platformio hackery
- C4nn0n from discord - Testing a lot for the watchy v3 and beyond
- invpt (slabeb on discord) - Huge thanks for pointing out the direction for a potential fix for screen ghosting, I easily have spend 2 weeks on it ;o
