{"id":38,"date":"2012-11-29T22:28:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T05:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ainslies.net\/?p=38"},"modified":"2012-12-03T07:37:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:37:44","slug":"im-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ainslies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fb01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43\" title=\"fb0\" src=\"http:\/\/ainslies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fb01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fb01.png 240w, https:\/\/ainslies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fb01-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>This was the second device I purchased as a small accelerometer based computer. \u00a0So far I&#8217;m really not impressed by this device.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of time and effort has gone into the look and finish of this watch. Too bad there wasn&#8217;t equivalent effort for funtionality<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pros<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Polished interface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cons<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poor battery life &#8211; another watch with phone like battery endurance.<\/li>\n<li>Incomplete Android OS &#8211; no sensor libraries.<\/li>\n<li>Poor developer support &#8211; many known issues not published<\/li>\n<li>Outrageous pricing ( they seriously have one listed for $21000 )<\/li>\n<li>Cloud based configuration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This one has been a fail pretty much since day 1. I ordered the watch in February and it didn&#8217;t show up until October. During that time they were pushing hard to have developers create apps for the device. I didn&#8217;t bother with their SDK as I needed hardware accelerometers for my software.<\/p>\n<p>When the watch arrived I installed the latest version of the software, installed the SDK and started to write my first program for it. I hooked it up to the computer and tried to find it with adb, nothing. After messing around for a while I fired off an email to developer tech support. They informed me there is currently no adb support. Nice a new paper weight.<\/p>\n<p>A month later on their site I find a new OS version that includes adb support. Excellent now maybe I&#8217;ll be able to use it. By downloading and installing adb for this device you void your warranty ??? You don&#8217;t really own a device until you&#8217;ve void the warranty so I installed the new developer rom.<\/p>\n<p>For some odd reason adb on the watch only supports network mode.<\/p>\n<p>A couple hours later I&#8217;ve written a shiny new app to talk to the sensors. But no matter how hard I try I can&#8217;t\u00a0SensorManager.getSensors() to return a sensor. I start digging around the logs and find this.<\/p>\n<pre> \r\nW\/HAL (20912): load: module=\/system\/lib\/hw\/sensors.imwatch.so error=Cannot load library: load_library[984]: Library '\/system\/lib\/hw\/sensors.imwatch.so' not found<\/pre>\n<p>So another email off to tech support <a href=\"http:\/\/support.imwatch.it\/help\/index.php?\/Atk\/Tickets\/Ticket\/View\/EFB-458-37919\" target=\"_blank\">Ticket: #EFB-458-37919<\/a>\u00a0and they inform me they are trying to get that fixed for the next software update. So back on the shelf it goes.<\/p>\n<p>At least it&#8217;s taught me something new. Howto generate a screen capture using adb.<\/p>\n<pre>adb pull \/dev\/graphics\/fb0\r\nffmpeg -vframes 1 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 -s 240x240 -i fb0 fb0.png<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the second device I purchased as a small accelerometer based computer. \u00a0So far I&#8217;m really not impressed by this device. A lot of time and effort has gone into the look and finish of this watch. 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