OpenWatch v1.5.1 (2011-08-02) Android (SE BT Watch MBW-100/150/200, LM958, Prada)

[BTW lover]

Thx for the newsrob linking.

 

[alvarohm]

Is there any news on supporting spotify? Thanks

 

[henq]

Yes, Spotify support is really interesting!

Spotify works fine with fwd/bkw/pause on Bluetooth headphones.

 

[alvarohm]

hi, I'm a complete beginner in android development, so I might be mistaken here.

I managed to control spotify by sending events from adb to the phone.

I used the following command to pause spotify

adb -d shell input keyevent 85

and it worked. I'm assuming that you can inject this keyevent from openwatch. If you don't have time to do that, I'll try to create an app that starts a service that listens to the relevant events from openwatch and injects the appropriate key, but first I need to learn how to develop android apps.

I don't know if there is another way of doing that. I tried to find other events to control spotify, and couldn't find anything. I also tried to find something on how to emulate the remote control bluetooth profile, but couldn't find anything.

Cheers

ps.: these are the codes for controlling media. It seems they don't work on the music player (weird).

public static final int KEYCODE_MEDIA_NEXT
Constant Value: 87 (0x00000057)

public static final int KEYCODE_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE
Constant Value: 85 (0x00000055)

public static final int KEYCODE_MEDIA_PREVIOUS
Constant Value: 88 (0x00000058)

public static final int KEYCODE_MEDIA_REWIND
Constant Value: 89 (0x00000059)

 

[Rodericklol]

No time and date

Hi everyone.


I have a small problem i have HTC Legend and MBW-150

just about everything works ok but i dont get Digital time and date on my watch.

Anyine have a solution?

 

[mnementh]

I have a Desire too and a MBW-150 Executive. As you I have no problem to get it to run. However the watch-battery lasts less than a day.

Only me having trouble with openwatch (or desire bluetooth stack) draining the watch battery?

 

[mattyguk]

Hi,

I'm looking at getting one of these watches, but am holding off until someone can confirm it works well with 2.1 running HTC sense.

Could i ask someone to try the following as this fixed bluetooth controls, etc... issues i've had in the past.

Pop to the market and install "headset button fix" start up the app, and click enable bluetooth headset buttons. Connect the watch, does this help with the controls at all?

 

[DJGibbon]

Only me having trouble with openwatch (or desire bluetooth stack) draining the watch battery?

Hi Mnementh

I've got a Classic Update rather than an Executive, but I can't imagine they're that different internally. I'm afraid my battery life is excellent, so I'm not sure what's different with yours. Are you on the stock rom?

Also, how's the battery life if the watch isn't paired to the phone? Mine will last forever (~20% battery drop over 5 days) if left like that. It might be that the phone and watch are continually dropping connection then re-syncing? That could use a lot of battery.

Of course, if you're getting so many emails/messages/calls that the watch never stops vibrating, that could use a lot of battery too

Hope you find a solution

Phil

 

[DJGibbon]

Hi,

I'm looking at getting one of these watches, but am holding off until someone can confirm it works well with 2.1 running HTC sense.

Could i ask someone to try the following as this fixed bluetooth controls, etc... issues i've had in the past.

Pop to the market and install "headset button fix" start up the app, and click enable bluetooth headset buttons. Connect the watch, does this help with the controls at all?

Hi Matt

I'm on a Desire with stock 2.1 with Sense, and even without that app I have no problems with buttons etc. The only problem I have is that sometimes I don't get the email subject (but the watch still vibrates and shows the icon).

Phil

 

[mattyguk]

Thanks Phil, I might just take a punt, and buy one this weekend then!!

TBH i skim read quite a bit as this thread is getting a little difficult to follow when you've only just found it. I must have missed some bits out.

Thanks again for updating me.

 

[DJGibbon]

No problem, I know what you mean - when threads get this big there's no good way of getting a proper idea of what's been going on!

FWIW there have been a couple of people who've had problems with 2.1/Sense, and both of them were Legend users . . . I and a couple of other people have had success with the Desire. Make of that what you will, but I'd want a few more data points before actually saying the Legend was at fault

 

[mathiosn]

is there a version that will run on an X10 sonyericsson with android 1.6?

 

[mnementh]

Also, how's the battery life if the watch isn't paired to the phone? Mine will last forever (~20% battery drop over 5 days) if left like that. It might be that the phone and watch are continually dropping connection then re-syncing? That could use a lot of battery.

Have been running the watch for a week now with it unpaired and the battery is as you say 3/4 full. But one thing gives me an idea... I should try turning my wlan off. I've noticed that my bluetooth handsfree looses contact sometimes when the wlan signal strength get low (ie the phone boosts the wlan output).

 

[Broken]

Hey, love the app. Posted a problem I have on your forum and never saw a response so will go ahead and post here.

Telus Milestone user and after updating to 2.1.1 I get random watch disconnects. Sitting there and browsing the net and watch disconnected pops up. Does it at random times. Doesn't matter if both devices fully charged or not. And then other times when phone is idle it will start to ring and that is when I noticed that it has been disconnected and I didn't know it.

Other than that it has been awesome. Thank you so much for taking your time to develop this.

Just noticed another bug, might already have been mentioned, and if so sorry. If I have the vibrate function on, I get a phone call and silence it with the watch, vibration continues until call ends or I dig the phone out of my pocket and end call. Like the idea of vibrate so on the occasion that the watch has disconnected for no reason I don't miss a call while in a noisy environment.

 

[Pyrojester]

Hi all

HTC Desire and an MBW-150 Classic Update (white face)

Openwatch seems to be running great despite the problems some other people have had with SenseUI (mind you, I've only had it for about an hour so there's plenty of time for things to go wrong yet).

The only real problem I've got is that email notifications aren't showing the correct sender and subject line on the watch. They appear find on the phone, but on the watch they always appear as the same email - one from Amazon a couple of days ago. It's flagged as read, so I'm not sure why OpenWatch is picking that one up!

I'm using a Google Apps for your domain account, if that makes any difference.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Phil

I've had this problem with both a G1 running 2.1 and my new Desire on 2.1. Is everyone else getting the most recent email notification rather then the oldest unread each time a new email comes in?

 

[DJGibbon]

Hmmm. When I posted, I meant that I was getting notifications showing an email that wasn't even unread (it had come from Amazon a few days before my watch even arrived). Now the most common situation is for me to always be notified of the oldest unread email (whereas I'd prefer to be notified of the subject lines of new ones as they arrive). Can anyone confirm what is the expected behaviour? I assumed it would be the latter, but perhaps not

 

[flyguye]

Its been awhile since there's been any news about HTC Legend & MBW-150 issues. Has anyone had any luck? Wonder if moneytoo has got his hands on a HTC legend to test the problems out?

 

[tabashir]

Hi,

I am wondering if the current version will ever support the LM957/LM958?

I got one of these last year but since the feature set was limited on the version for the G1 it has been in a drawer waiting until I got a phone with the 2.0 API on there.

Just tried to use it and found that it does not work and a comment in this thread says it is not supported.

Cheers in advance.

 

[tektor]

Telus Milestone user and after updating to 2.1.1 I get random watch disconnects. Sitting there and browsing the net and watch disconnected pops up. Does it at random times. Doesn't matter if both devices fully charged or not. And then other times when phone is idle it will start to ring and that is when I noticed that it has been disconnected and I didn't know it.

I've had this trouble too with my Droid on 2.0.1 and then 2.1. Same watches I've used with an SE W810i and HTC Touch Diamond (Raphael) with SmartWatchM 0.5.0. Both of those phones worked flawlessly with both of my MBW-150s, but OpenWatch 0.5.1 seems to randomly disconnect a few times a day with both of the same MBW-150s. It's a *great* app, so just a shame that it disconnects. A button-press will reconnect, if I notice. Would love to get a fix! Thanks for dev's hard work!

 

[djemm1996]

wow, nice