[aprssig] Pebble Smart Watch

[Jason Rausch]

Georg,

Glad to hear you are already thinking about it!  I saw it as a great way to display received messages, maybe track a single station's status or maybe even display a station list, with the ability to select a station in the list and view more information on them.  I think the real beauty is, we don't have to keep loading the watch with data, just have the watch ping the phone/tablet for requested info.  The only exception would be when you are in station list mode.  I think this would be nice to have updated anytime a station is added to the list.

For now just display of received data would be nice, but getting to the point of replying to messages would be very nice.  Perhaps canned messages, instead of trying to compose a message on the fly with the limited user interface on the watch.

Jason Rausch - KE4NYV
RPC Electronics, LLC
www.rpc-electronics.com


--- On Thu, 4/19/12, Georg Lukas <georg at op-co.de> wrote:

> From: Georg Lukas <georg at op-co.de>
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Pebble Smart Watch
> To: aprssig at tapr.org
> Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 10:20 AM
> * Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com>
> [2012-04-18 21:17]:
> > If you back at the $220 level, you'll have a spare to
> ship to Georg.
> > I'm sure he would more strongly consider supporting the
> Pebble in
> > APRSdroid if he was gifted one :)
> 
> I must admit, I have been looking into the project as well,
> even though
> I'm not usually wearing a wrist-watch. However, I am not
> sure how far it
> is usable for APRS.
> 
> I suppose the long battery run-time can only be achieved if
> there is no
> active Bluetooth connection. OTOH, such a connection would
> be required
> for an APRS display. Still, it would make for an interesting
> tool to
> display incoming APRS messages :)
> 
> 73 de Georg DO1GL
> -- 
> APRSdroid - Open Source APRS Client for Android ++ http://aprsdroid.org/m
>      ++ https://market.android.com/details?id=org.aprsdroid.app
> ++
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