What happened to Sailfish Watch?
 

Does anyone know what happened to the Sailfish Watch?
The UI looked very nice
https://blog.jolla.com/watch/

Re: What happened to Sailfish Watch?
 

AsteroidOS happened? :)

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They probably smartly decided to not release yet another device that will not see an uptake or purchase beyond the few folks in this forum.

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at this point, I think that sailfish is more complete for a watch than it is for a smartphone :(

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They were looking for partners to build Sailfish wathches and apparently they did not find any.

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Wasn't it just a PoC?

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It was.

However it was largely based on the Asteroid OS Project, which still continues and is more or less what a Sailfish OS Watch would be anyway

https://asteroidos.org/

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poc?:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/POC

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Naw, more like Prisoner of conscience

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I thought the word for that was zygote.

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Somehow, I actually liked the SailfishOS UI, it looks better/cleaner from the demo that they showed to us.

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Our best bet for a sailfish connected smartwatch is indeed AsteroidOS.

Kido and others made attempts to build an sfos client called Starfish.
It was in planning to release with 1.0 last Q2 but got skipped due to a nasty bluetooth LE bug (or sfos shortcoming?) regarding authentication.
Jolla is aware of the problem but last news from them are from pre summer.

So literally we (all) are waiting for jolla to give any new feedback to this bug or solve it, to have someone else do a Sailfish Sibling Watch for them (they could again build upon) including client. But even that ... is ... slow... currently and gives a hint on how high watches are on Jolla-priority-list.
My bet, someone else finds a solution before Jolla does :rolleyes:

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yeappp :D

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I agree, it looked awesome.

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Some people have installed it on their smartwatches and it looks quite neat. Good job.

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AsteroidOS looks really promising. Is there any support for SFOS (yet)? Does it work well? Sadly it's about time I start to look for a replacement for my Pebble.

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How!???
It's not even released!?

Edit: Are you talking about Sailfish Watch OS or AstroidOS?

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I have been thinking to replace my Pebble steel with a new smartwatch. I don't like the Apple-ish look of the Time Steel, but LG Watch R looks nice.
Since BTLE is still an issue for Sailfish, has there been any progress using AsteroidOS and Sailfish X together?

btw: What are battery times of LG watch R with AsteroidOS?

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IIRC it was tested with an xperia x and it was working ok with BTLE, not entirely sure what the state of the client is though.

That said the client is mostly just a front-end to the daemon:
https://github.com/AsteroidOS/asteroidsyncservice
https://github.com/AsteroidOS/starfish

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There is also Amazfish (</plug>) which supports the Amazfit Bip using BLE on sailfish. Its a half decent watch with GPS, notifications etc at a low price.

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I can totally agree on that. Plus, you can pester the dev with feature requests :D

I was in the same situation to replace my (broken :( ) Pebble Time and chose the Amazfit since it seems to have a better support for SFOS. The AsteroidOS SFOS App seemed to be abandoned in the alpha back then, and it does not look better now (last commit on GitHub was a year ago).

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Does Amazfish has a daemon now? That was the main reason for me to not use it.

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Yeah, hence the plug by @piggz :
https://openrepos.net/content/piggz/amazfish


looks pretty good too!

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Looks good indeed, especially the thing about storing data locally for real personal use.

I got myself a Pebble Time Steel Kickstarter Edition now. Hope that it arrives so can try it on the holidays.

It is still good to know, that there alternatives. Thanks for the update!

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By a daemon I meant to receive notifications and gather data while the app is not running.