LiveView reverse-engineering effort

[elbarto0]

how i can add plugins ???

Like Facebook Whatsapp Twitter and co ??

 

[vallesedgar]

Plugins are still not implemented

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[miogy]

How to make whats app messages appear?

I hope to read the messages of whatsapp rather then just have notification of "Messages from AAA"(like in the picture). Is it any simple way to do that. In Liveview official application with Custom Notifier is was possible. BTW this project really mean a lot to me. Already forgot where i put my Seiko :laugh:

 

[miogy]

how i can add plugins ???

Like Facebook Whatsapp Twitter and co ??

Just go to Android setting- Accessibility and click OLV notifications and then restart your phone and Liveview.

 

[vegaspete]

Mind you, if the liveview doesn't even connect either via OLV or the Sony application, there is a slight chance that reflashing the (stock) liveview firmware via the sony update tool will fix it.
It had happened to me while I was switching from ICS to JB, and I thought it was the rom, but it worked just fine afterwards, so give it a shot..

just gave it a try and no such luck for me. those buggers at google were supposed to fix Bluetooth issues with 4.2.2. thanks for the suggestion.

 

[unignal]

A little confused.

So I read through this thread from page 50 till 74.

And then I got a little confused, so I would like to clarify.

There are currently 2 projects here.. the OLV app for android phones as well as a custom firmware. Right?
For the OLV app, it is alive and kicking. Right?
Is this still the main thread discussing the app? I am an Android developer too and I would like to see if there's anyway I can contribute once I get my liveview (in the mail)

For the custom firmware - right now there's a working clock. That much I understand.

 

[renzenicolai]

A little confused.

So I read through this thread from page 50 till 74.

And then I got a little confused, so I would like to clarify.

There are currently 2 projects here.. the OLV app for android phones as well as a custom firmware. Right?
For the OLV app, it is alive and kicking. Right?
Is this still the main thread discussing the app? I am an Android developer too and I would like to see if there's anyway I can contribute once I get my liveview (in the mail)

For the custom firmware - right now there's a working clock. That much I understand.

You got it right!

Our website (Nothing more than a link to this thread and a link to Google Code):
http://www.openliveview.com

Google Code: (repository for the OpenLiveView app)
https://code.google.com/p/openliveview/

I think the OpenLiveView firmware doesn't have a repository yet.

 

[GottZ]

You got it right!

Our website (Nothing more than a link to this thread and a link to Google Code):
http://www.openliveview.com

Google Code: (repository for the OpenLiveView app)
https://code.google.com/p/openliveview/

I think the OpenLiveView firmware doesn't have a repository yet.

bout the website:
- shall the thread link point to the newest page? i could change it to that.
- shall we put some developement progress informations onto the front page?

bout the firmware:
- does not have a repo yet and is changing too much to make use of a repo yet. (at least the parts i do)
- is still lacking a very basic system for event handling, module management etc.

 

[alhinai21]

bout the website:
- shall the thread link point to the newest page? i could change it to that.
- shall we put some developement progress informations onto the front page?

bout the firmware:
- does not have a repo yet and is changing too much to make use of a repo yet. (at least the parts i do)
- is still lacking a very basic system for event handling, module management etc.

Sure someone should do this especially "progress informations"

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[unignal]

hey guys.. another question.. so what are the current functionalities of the app?

It pushes all notifications to the watch right?
Is there any clear indication of which app the notifications are from?

 

[miogy]

hey guys.. another question.. so what are the current functionalities of the app?

It pushes all notifications to the watch right?
Is there any clear indication of which app the notifications are from?

You can choose white list in the menu. And start adding the app that you want to get notification only.

 

[GottZ]

yo guys. i've changed the content on openliveview.com. may take a look and tell me if my creepy english skills shall be enlighted with corrections.

 

[alhinai21]

yo guys. i've changed the content on openliveview.com. may take a look and tell me if my creepy english skills shall be enlighted with corrections.

Great hope you will update it when something new is done.

I want to ask about play store app y it is not up to date?

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[GottZ]

Great hope you will update it when something new is done.

I want to ask about play store app y it is not up to date?

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the one on google play is a stable release.

the one published here is a developement release.


edit:
special thanks to fixxxer667, who made some corrections and additions to the text i've published on openliveview.com.

 

[TpmKranz]

I hope to read the messages of whatsapp rather then just have notification of "Messages from AAA"(like in the picture). Is it any simple way to do that. In Liveview official application with Custom Notifier is was possible. BTW this project really mean a lot to me. Already forgot where i put my Seiko :laugh:

...
Is there any clear indication of which app the notifications are from?

After the next official update it should show both the actual content of a notification and the name of the app that spawned it. If you don't want to wait for renzenicolai to update the Play Store app, try a recent development snapshot or compile it yourself.

 

[GottZ]

i'm brainstorming a little bit.


the olv has 249856 bytes storage usable for the firmware.

out of theese some bytes shall not be overwritten because they contain the device bluetooth address and serial number.

the firmware i have here currently takes around 32 kb.


what gives me headache is the following:

how dafu*k shall i put full utf8 support into the device?

i thought about using freetype to render a free utf8 font into pixel data.
if i would take the rendering onto the liveview it would mostly overflow the internal storage just to hold a font.
if i would put compressed pixel data of each pixel for a defined font size onto the storage (without antialiasing) i guess it also would overflow.

does anyone of you have an idea how to solve the font problem?

i dont know what sony ericsson did but i do not think they put full utf8 support onto the device. (and even added useless meta data to the firmware)


what i could do is taking certain parts that could be of use out of http://czyborra.com/unifont/ into the firmware.

suggestions?

 

[renzenicolai]

You got me thinking and I think I figured it out:

Sony uses a little trick: you can tell the liveview to show a bitmap instead of text as notification content and maybe also in place of the two strings in panels. That way the Sony app can generate bitmaps using the same font as the device uses: the user won't notice a difference and the LiveView magically supports unicode.

I did not implement any code that uses this feature in OLV yet and I am focussing on other stuff (plugins) first, but maybe it's an idea for the future.
-> Maybe you can also use a trick like this in the OLV firmware?

bout the website:
- shall the thread link point to the newest page? i could change it to that.

Good idea!

- shall we put some developement progress informations onto the front page.

Also a good idea!

I will install a content management system on the website asap.

 

[GottZ]

Good idea!

done.

Also a good idea!

before you wrote this message, i've added this already.

I will install a content management system on the website asap.

i hope you have a backup of style.css because this file went missing. (i did not delete it and only used ssh / vim to create and edit it)
will digg into my deep google chrome cache now but i guess its gone.

edit:
it appears you did not delete it (as far as i can see) but neither did i so i really wonder why its gone.

edit2:
added an old backup and edited it to be up to date.

Sony uses a little trick:

good idea.
i could implement a copy of sony ericssons protocol but i think some changes / additions would make it more reliable and fast. (besides bluetooth is yet a future thing and i dont know what exception13 is doing or if he still keeps hacking this device)

one main thing i'd like to implement is font transfer; to send unicode id's and their graphical representation onto the device and cache them for reduced bandwidth usage and offline drawing.


another thing exception13 was working on is permanent storage. i hope he still works on it because i do not know how to permanently write data onto the internal memory from within chibios to keep the data after a turnoff / battery drain.

 

[toletum91zgz]

Hi to all!

Since a couple of months I'm looking for a new smart-watch. I hope the new ones will support my Nokia Lumia 800 with Windows Phone, but at this time I can only wait until this days.

Insted of wait until Gnomio will raise again or something like that, I've seen that LiveView on Amazon at 21€ (about 26$) and I bought one, because now I have a boring Led Watch and I think that will be a cooler option to wear at my wrist

So, surfing on the web looking for some LiveView hacking, I found this thread and I can only say that it's amazing! Great job, guys, seriously.

Mine arrives this wednesday, I hope, and I will read the 76 pages of this thread and I will try to help you whenever I can.

This message is to congratulate to the developer and cheer them. Nice job, guys.

Keep this cool way!

 

[GottZ]

AW: LiveView reverse-engineering effort

since you use windows phone you will not be able to use that clock with its basic firmware since it requires a bluetooth connection to set the time and date.

what operating system are you using? windows i guess.
in case its really windows, we shall find a good way to install a custom firmware through it because right now i see a that as only chance for you to use the liveview.

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