SmartHome Wearable Controller thanks to geolocation
Hello,
We are a team of 5 students in equivalent as 4th year of university studying at ECE Paris, an engineering school. We are working this year on a home automation project which aim at creating and adding a geolocation function (indoor geolocation with Bluetooth beacons) to already existing smartwatch/Smartphone apps.
Are any of you interested in such an app?
What features would you like to add it?
Do you have any ideas that could improve automation in domotic?
thanks =)
Because you mentioned beacons: phillips hue shall follow the location of my phone or watch.
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Wish someone here can develop HUD that run parallel with any GPS run on our phone. Probably we can submit petition to our GPS developer to create apps for our Gear to display GPS head up display. Good for bikers and travellers where they can easily mark places of interest in GPS and later refer to Gear and follow arrow of direction with distance notification.
Is great if can have something like this and make the Gear more interesting.... :good:
lets hope all this will come soon or at least brought up in the developers conference
Turnbyturn GPS
http://www.sammobile.com/2014/03/03...avigation-client-that-syncs-with-your-mobile/
This is an advantage of having android on Gear but not to rush for Gear 2 Tizen, but where to download the software..
Hi,
I am new to the Pebble / smart watch / android wear devices.
I was thinking if the smartwatch can be used to connect to another device say an iBeacon / arduino with a bluetooth LTE or anyother such devices.
Any suggestions recommendations are welcome.
Mods/admins sorry if I have posted in wrong category. But any help is really appreciated.
Pebble and Home automation
sachinranka4u said:
Hi,
I am new to the Pebble / smart watch / android wear devices.
I was thinking if the smartwatch can be used to connect to another device say an iBeacon / arduino with a bluetooth LTE or anyother such devices.
Any suggestions recommendations are welcome.
Mods/admins sorry if I have posted in wrong category. But any help is really appreciated.
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==> I've got Pebble, Pebble Time, and (coming up) Pebble Time2 and the Pebble Core.. Really looking forward to the progress made.
I haven't got my Pebble working with home automation just yet, but I'm starting that project next year.
I've already gathered the hardware bits: Raspberry, Arduino's, RF tx/rx, switches, cameras sensors and such
I'm expecting that it will take me quite a learning curve, but domotica and security systems are 'on the rise', interesting.
I know that one of the mechanisms that you can use is the IFTTT way of messaging and setting up switches, dependencies etcetera.
I haven't yet dug into it, but the easiest mechanism at the moment seems to be as discussed in mydogsnowy.com
It offers a number of 'Ok Google' like possibilities, including including e.g. a "snowy please open garage"
Go over to the site mentioned for further detail.
I'm sure there must also be other Pebble-owners that are 'active' in such use of the Pebble series.
sachinranka4u said:
Hi,
I am new to the Pebble / smart watch / android wear devices.
I was thinking if the smartwatch can be used to connect to another device say an iBeacon / arduino with a bluetooth LTE or anyother such devices.
Any suggestions recommendations are welcome.
Mods/admins sorry if I have posted in wrong category. But any help is really appreciated.
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super cool watch
Hi,
I'm working for one company that makes eletric bikes. Currently we have an app which is used as extended dashboard for the bike and to control your bike when you are not using it. Now we are thinking of extending some of our functionality and one of our feature request would be to use Android Auto within our bike infotainment. My question is whether something like this is 'legit' (Can such an application be approved by Google) ?
Or to be more precise, here is user story request: "As a company that manufacturers e-bike solutions, we want to build bike infotainment that supports Android Auto, so that riders can run all apps that have Android Auto support on e-bike infotainment."
Thank you
If your e-bike application does not have a hidden collection of user information and sending packages to third parties, then you will be moderated by Google in the Play Market. Read about such applications on the thematic sites that are dedicated to e-bikes.
Hi,
I'm disappointed with AA. I think there is some space for an open source alternative to this system which is so closed.
Moreover the end of life of the standalone version makes me feel that Google doesn't care much about their customer experience.
I tried the Google Assistant driving mode and it's... a disaster for now.
I think it would be easy to create a great AA like launcher. But to make it succesfull there must be a community and an ecosystem around that. Apps are important even in automotive context.
Typically Waze is a key app that many drivers want.
At this time I'm wondering what is the best approach to start this kind of project. I see few show stoppers and I'm interested to get some thought from you about that.
1/ Head unit integration : long time ago I worked on the reverse engineering of the AA protocol. I discovered that the protocol is using SSL certificates. Head units holds a public key and mobile use a private key provided by Google Play Services. The problem is that these certificates have very short lifetime (about 6 months) and if I remember fine the root cerificate will expire in 2030 or something. I don't think that head unit s check the expiration date anyway (because many of them don't have system time). But for sure you need a Google private key in order to initiate communication with a head unit. The key could be captured decompiling code few years ago, don't know if it's still as simple as that.
If head unit really don't check the expiration date then it could be possible to replace the whole AA stack with an independent one.
But even if this work I'm not sure it's possible to disable the native AA protocol and take control of the USB port without rooting.
2/ Apps integration. There are 2 categories of Automotive apps : media apps and navigation apps. I think there are also a category for messaging apps.
Navigations apps are apps that provides an automotive friendly display. Waze does this for example.
Media apps are easy to integrate becaase they rely on the legacy mediabrowser APIs.
Integrating the navigation apps is tough. Because these apps are exposing a special AA service that only privileged apps can invoke (by default).
However apps dev can also allow a third party app to connect their dispkay service. This won't ever happen except if the car launcher become mainstream.
Good point is that would not require any change in implementations : it's just an access right problem.
I have seen a lot of car launchers in Play store. They all display the apps on native mode which is not what you want while driving.
Any comments to this ?
I would also like to see an alternative way...but unfortunately I did not find anything yet.
I'm also not happy with everything on Android Auto.
For example:
- I have apps (e.g. navigation) that are not compatible with Android Auto
- I can't accept Whatsapp calls on Android Auto
- The navgation of media apps is not the best way (if you want to change the playlists, there are way too many inputs necessary)
- I can't turn off Google Maps (GPS) to preserve battery and reduce heat on the phone
- I need internet (I live in a rural area...therefore sometimes I don't have internet and then in a lot of times, Android Auto just crashes...)
- I don't like Google's update policy (it's just good luck if a new version of Android Auto works stable). I want to have a working version and leave it on the phone.
From a user standpoint I definately would like to see an AA alternative. I don't need to watch videos or anything like that but there are a few necessary apps for me that AA doesn't allow.
SOFO888 said:
- I don't like Google's update policy (it's just good luck if a new version of Android Auto works stable). I want to have a working version and leave it on the phone.
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You can achieve that by disabling Android Auto automatic updates on Play Store app.
CaioTheBrain said:
You can achieve that by disabling Android Auto automatic updates on Play Store app.
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No, unfortunately not. Every Google app has an expiration date, also Android Auto. This expiration date then forces you to update your app. Otherwise it will not start.
There are a few Android dongles that trick the car's headunit into thinking it is connected via Android Auto. However, most of the devices are CarPlay AI units that trick the headunit into thinking is is connected to a CarPlay device and then display the Android system through the headunit. But they are all buggy.
Perhaps something can be learned from how they do that. An app that mimics Android Auto but allows full user control would be great.
I am by no means an expert but I want to help do this! I liked using rooted devices for AA and having AA tweaker but I always felt like it was just the start of something not a finished product so I'm definitely down with this. What I feel like would be the simplest approach would be making an Android auto app that (it communicates with your phone and doesn't need data) runs on a cheap tablet that you put on your dash or wherever in the car and from there you have full control over the app and device. Just my thoughts
Did someone tried sreen2auto? Its mirroring your phone to your android auto. Search it on XDA forum.
drnightshadow said:
Did someone tried sreen2auto? Its mirroring your phone to your android auto. Search it on XDA forum.
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I used to use Screen2Auto but it required too much upkeep every time Google made changes to Android Auto. The last time it broke I couldn't get it working again.