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Man, what I really want is a e-ink smart watch…

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Depending on what features you want/need, you can get a used Pebble on eBay and run Rebble on it. More hoops to jump through if you use an iPhone, but android support is pretty straightforward!

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Not sure if they are still available, but after pebble shut down, I got this Chinese watch called amazfit bip. It has a color e-ink display and lasts roughly a week on a full charge.

I was able to sync to my phone using FOSS called gadgetbridge so I didn’t have to install sketchy Chinese software on my phone.

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made me curious, so I decided to look it up. Is yours the original Bip?

Looks like the newer ones all have LCD screens and are more like the Fitbit versa.

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Yeah it was the first one

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SQFMI Watchy exists… And has a chinese supplier now which doesn’t suck

The community is also active, recently a few from ground up firmwares have appeared

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Man, I’ve been dying to get one ever since a friend told me about em.
While I can get them via Aliexpress, they come with a very minimal case, with the sides exposed. I’m struggling to find anyone selling replacement cases and I don’t have access to a 3d printer to make one myself unfortunately.
I’ll keep looking though.

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Look up your local 3d printer community

  • The seller on aliexpress will probably have in the future usbc version with cnc case
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I was trying to find a link to a supplier, could you link?

Edit: found that it’s on mouser, but also discovered they’re using USB-Micro still, so that’s going to have to be a pass :(

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My github has a repo explaining it all, username is the same.

The seller on aliexpress will probably have in the future usbc version with cnc case

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I switched from a Pebble Time to a Gaemin Vivoactive 4s. I think it’s as close to an eink smart watch as it gets.

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I have a Fossil Hybrid, it’s perfect

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I have an old Sony eink one which still works and is perfect

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The Garmin Instinct watches have an e-ink like display. I get about 25 days of battery on mine.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/775421

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RIP in peace Pebble

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I got into Pebble last year, hahah. I have four now because I’m a weirdo (two Times, a Time Steel and a Round). Thank goodness for Rebble!

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Hopefully you have better luck with the batteries than I did

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I wish Eric had given us pebble v2 instead of beeper, honestly.

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I wonder how hard it would be to open source something similar with something like an nrf52 or similar and a 3d printed enclosure I might have to look into this tbh

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Iirc there’s a pine watch. Maybe it didn’t have e-ink

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Idk if Bangle.js is open source, but I imagine a e-ink display could be possible?

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Main problem will probably be battery life. At least if you want to do more than show the time on it.

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