AsteroidOS 2.0 is here with a massive load of new features and support for many more watches.
Thank you to all contributors who made it possible!
Watch the visual demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6FiQz0yACc
Read the announcement: https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/
Enjoy the wrist-sized Linux ride!
I seem to have a tendency, a skill, a knack to choose and buy that specific hardware model that is not supported by these cool open source projects.
Same thing happened with PostmarketOS, I have a box full of old phones that are specifically not supported.
It’s a really shitty superpower.
Looking at the list of supported watches, there are only 2 with 5 star support and they seem quite old / obscure. I couldn’t find any to buy second hand anyway.
we share the same superpower.
point it however, that is the nature of open source projects, just up to yourself willing to sacrifice time and hardware to test and integrate on your device.
I’d love to, but I have committed all my free time (all 120 minutes per week, it feels) to a project I started years ago and I need to finish.
Nah, it is pretty much if you didn’t buy one of 2 trendy models of the year, then nothing else has ever or will ever be supported (of course you can always write your own drivers but it is a ton of work, especially for non-coders)
I have a thought that a lot of the enthusiasts that go through the pain and effoet of writing all of these drivers for old phones they have were usually the kind of people to buy the best/most popular device of the year