The series of article Samsung Smartwatch as Proximity Switch taught our readers to learn all required the basic to make ESP32 to respond to a specific smartwatch's BLE. The same basic was used for the IoT project Detect Smartwatch With ESP32 on IBM Watson IoT Widget. But, still today in everyday life we depend on sound clues more than the visual clues. A door bell or a smoke detector are some … [Read more...]
Samsung Smartwatch as Proximity Switch : Part V [END]
This is the final part of the series. In Part I, we talked about the basics which continued to Part II. Part III had a working code non-specific to any particular device. Part IV had a partially working code specific to a particular device. circuitdigest.com's code (in Part IV) was not working with Samsung Galaxy Watch LTE. Samsung's smartwatches shutdown both BLE and traditional … [Read more...]
Galaxy Watch LTE Versus Active 2 LTE
They are not comparable as watches. They can be compared only for the specification part. These two watches are different for their look, not exactly they are too different from the specification point of view. May be, Samsung wanted two watches, one with a masculine sports design and another with a normal watch look. Over 5 years, smartwatches evolved in design and in the functionalities they … [Read more...]
Samsung Smartwatch as Proximity Switch : Part I
It is not just easy to use the BLE of Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch. Because BLE of Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch is designed to work with their intended purposes, such as Samsung Flow software. Reading our previous article on GATT will help to understand the basic things we need to know to work with ESP32. We need to obtain the BLE hardware address, Service UUID and Characteristic UUID of the server. … [Read more...]
Samsung Galaxy Watch PSD Template
To use the files included in this guide, one should learn how to connect Samsung Galaxy Watch with Galaxy Watch Designer. As prerequisites, we need a laptop (or any computer) which has Wi-Fi, JDK 8 installed and configured, Google Chrome browser, Tizen Studio & Galaxy Watch Designer installed. The Tizen Studio IDE total installation will be of around 5 GB. For using these files, only the … [Read more...]
Connect Galaxy Watch to Tizen Studio & Galaxy Watch Designer
First, we should learn how to connect Samsung Galaxy Watch with Tizen Studio & Galaxy Watch Designer. Later we can develop & run our apps. The documentations written by Samsung is not just bad but also not just easy to understand and do. At worst, the software and firmware have bugs. After reading this guide, your watch development projects will become smooth like working with Arduino … [Read more...]
How to Create Watch Face Using Galaxy Watch Designer
The unique feature of the smartwatches is the capability to use different watch faces. We are using Samsung Galaxy Watch LTE for testing our designing and development. There are mainly three tools to convert your art created on vector tools like Adobe Illustrator and general-purpose tool Adobe Photoshop. Facer like two third party platform has paid tools to do the job. However, Samsung Galaxy … [Read more...]