I made a blog post about my PineTime! Please feel free to give any feed back!
I just got my pinetime as well, and the battery has impressed me the most! 10% over 2 days seems to be my average so far, which I suppose matches up with your experience.
I am hoping the new ability to stream image and font allows more rich notification capabilities, such as MMS and (to your point) accented letters.
Still need to get the development environment set up properly so that I can try and add a little extra functionality, but keep hitting build snags. Glad to see others hopping on the pinetime train though!
Edit: oh, author of the article didn’t post this…egg meet face lol
Edit: oh, author of the article didn’t post this…egg meet face lol
What do you mean? I am actually the author ahah!
I am hoping the new ability to stream image and font
I never heard of this, do you have any link or PR where works has been done on such a thing ?
I’m always excited for new features, don’t forget to post on here if you manage to add fun or useful features to the watch!
Well shoot haha I take back my edit then!
For the streaming bit: https://www.pine64.org/2022/10/18/infinitime-1-11/ It’s an old post from 1.11, but sounds like it supports the ability to do so. I think that’s where the new watchfaces are able to look so cool. But I think it means that future development could allow some form of functionality where you can use static resources not on the watch to display.
I still need to play with it lol
I appreciate your write up here. Thanks you. I’m going to get myself one. And also your impressions blog was the best review I have read in the last few days of looking into this watch.
£32.50 including shipping. I thought that was a mistake. So cheap! Bought one immediately 😁
My Pinetime arrived exactly like yours: loose in the box like it slipped through. I don’t know if it happened during shipping or if it was packaged haphazardly, but there were no scratches or dents so no big deal. Also, I noticed you didn’t mention the other available OS. You can switch from Infinitime to Wasp-OS. I don’t think one is necessarily better than the other, but Wasp-OS has some features Infinitime doesn’t. The switching process is a little clunky, but there’s a guide that walks you through the steps and links to the required files. After switching back to Infinitime, I haven’t been able to load Wasp-OS a second time and I’m not sure why, but that could be a personal issue. All in all I’m happy with this watch. Most of the features the more expensive smart watches have over the Pinetime are things I wouldn’t use anyway, and I like that it can function as a standalone watch if you don’t connect it to anything. Thanks for the article, and I hope development keeps going strong for this neat little device.
Infinitime to Wasp-OS.
I did not think about other OS indeed, I did no research about them as I found that the main InfiniTime OS was so feature complete that I didn’t thought to look elsewhere!
Do you know any other OS except WaspOS too ?
Yeah most watches have too much “features” that you won’t utilize and can’t even last 2 days on battery life it seems…
As far as I know it’s just Infinitime and Wasp. Maybe someone is making another but I doubt it. And I agree that Infinitime already has mostly everything I want. Wasp pretty much just presents itself slightly differently, with a few more apps that I can’t remember right now. I think Infinitime is nicer looking too.
Yeah InfiniTime is definitly better looking, but Wasp does have some neat stuff like a calculator and more games from what I could see!
The flashlight is my most use feature. I can walk and take a shower at night without switching any light on.
Battery life is crazy.
Nice write up.
Does it have some sort of always-on display mode, and if so any idea what it does to the battery life?
It does not have this, but the wrist raise is really sensitive and can act as such, it’s not an oled display so always on would destroy the batery life, with the wrist raise the battery life really take a hit compared to only shake to wake.
I thought you were supposed to use Siglo on the Linux desktop as the companion app? Might be worth a look if you haven’t checked it out yet.
I have to say, as much as I like gadgetbridge I’m kind of jealous of InfiniLink on iOS.
As for software, I use the BPM vibration feature to time static stretches (set to 1 pulse at 60bpm). Means you don’t need to keep count in your head to (accurately) get that minimum 28 second static stretch time, nor do you need to crane your neck and look at a clock as you’re doing them. I only wish it saved the bpm config so you didn’t have to manually define it every time you use the feature, since it’s kinda finicky to operate.
Oh yeah that’s a good use of the Metronome ! (yeah I totally forgot this word existed when I made the article ahah)
InfiniLink
I didn’t know about Siglo at all, but It seems to work well with the pinetime I guess!
Also InfiniLink does look awesome not gonna lie…
For people who wants links: https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.theironrobin.siglo https://apps.apple.com/us/app/infinilink/id1582318814
Wait, Using InfiniLink, you don’t have music control, and no notifications on the watch… It does seem less attractive now…
Good find, I don’t have an iPhone to play around with it, but it looks very slick, and seems to be a first party FOSS app for the watch. Hopefully they get that missing functionality in the future.
In the case of Android, I’m not actually sure if you need gadgetbridge running for all of the above functionality. I should try unpairing and reconnecting with GB disabled or uninstalled to verify.
