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Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

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Re: Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

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Post by microtonal »

the_real_cher wrote: post #55
lobster2342 wrote: post #47

I just finished swimming, tracked by a Garmin Forerunner 910x which I bought back in 2015 and I have been constantly using since. Wrist band replaced once each side. Battery lifetime still amazing, even with longer bike rides and GPS. Data can be analyzed locally. Uptime since I bought it: almost 100%. Amazing peace of Hardware. Also their algorithms are cool. If the watch tells me to rest more than 24 hours, I know,…

i have a fenix solar, i charge it once a month. it has an insane number of features

The price is also insane nowadays though. IMO they are very vulnerable to the likes of Coros, who also have MIP watches that last for weeks, have much faster mapping and are less than half the price.

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Post by microtonal »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #91
lrae wrote: post #20

Some good points were already brought up in the comments (IP5X, USB C charging), but I have the feeling that it's also just not a good fitness tracker/smartwatch. I see a single unboxing of the watch from three weeks ago on Youtube and zero reviews on YT or websites. Just posts based on their PR release that it's available now. (Though some clearly already shipped.) Thus, it's unfortunately very likely that the produ…

There are only about 400 units in existence, and they just started shipping June 30: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unawatch/meet-una-the-m... so it's been out for less than a month. That's why you've seen zero reviews on websites, it's an indie Kickstarter. They don't have the marketing budget of a big wearables brand. It has a GPS, IMU, and heart rate sensor: That's enough, obviously, to track activities, wor…

It's not as simple as just dropping a heart rate sensor though. It also took Garmin, Coros, Apple, etc. several generations to make good-enough heart rate sensors and most of them are very proprietary.

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Post by patrickk »

catigula wrote: post #49
rolisz wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Body battery is amazing. I had long COVID/ME/CFS, and looking at the body battery when waking up was an outstanding predictor of how my day was going to be. When I hit 5% body battery, I was really feeling horrible.

It's just a collation of sleep-end RHR/HRV. It's completely trivial and many manufacturers do this correctly; both are extremely reliable predictors of recovery metrics. Garmin has absolutely shitty sleep tracking but it doesn't matter; any wearable more or less nowadays can get static heart rate correct, leading to more or less accurate recovery metrics. "Collect every paper you can find on RHR/HRV/etc. recovery met…

Do you have a particular hardware sensor requirement needed to clone the body battery function? I’m interested in developing this too but always resisted getting a smartwatch due to privacy concerns. If there’s something available that’s Gadgetbridge compatible I’d be very interested.

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Post by cyberax »

microtonal wrote: post #120
cyberax wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pebble Time 2 is available again! I bought one. It doesn't have all the Garmin features, but it's free and I don't have to worry about it's software getting redesigned.

True, but in defense or Garmins, one cool feature is that they are really similar to their GPSr units in that you can just connect them to a computer and transfer data and maps (including many custom maps) through MTP (or as a USB drive on older models). Plus they work with Gadgetbridge. So you can pretty much use the watch forever without Garmin involved.

Yep, agreed. Garmins are great! I tried Fenix and I liked its feature set, but it's just too large for me physically.

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Post by jerlam »

m463 wrote: post #86
jhoechtl wrote: post #53

Is there any good watch outside doing GPS for position and time, minus all the body survzeilance things?

I have garmin as it doesn't require any sort of connection or activation to function out-of-the-box. Just put it on your wrist. You CAN decide to use garmin-connect for apps/updates or pair it with your phone, but I never have and I'm fine. Apple watch and others require activation.

You can plug in a Garmin to a computer with a cable and pull the files off the watch, as it acts like a USB drive. No app required.

Re: Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

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Post by abeyer »

hackingonempty wrote: post #24

This is cool because we need more open competition for the app/identity locked ecosystems of sports related electronics like gps watches, bike computers, and action cams. I hate how none of the major brand ones will work without at least signing up for an account and most wont work at all without the manufacturers app.

Doesn't this also use its own app and services? The only "open" part of it I saw in the docs was that there's an sdk to write your own app that runs on the watch. Better than nothing, i guess, but not quite what I was hoping for.

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Post by swiftcoder »

peterleiser wrote: post #98
pandemicsyn wrote: post #5

> "UNA is currently a non-submersible device due to its innovative modular design. So, swimming is not something we offer as an activity, nor do we advise it. UNA is IPX5 rated, which means it is splash & showerproof to a high degree." If I had a dollar for every time some project that was ipx5 rated failed after getting caught in the rain one too many times...I'd have enough to buy another Garmin Fenix.

Yeah, and drop your iPhone, in a ruggedized case, into 3 inches of bath water for 5 seconds from a height of one foot and then realize apple's IP68 claim is laughable.

My old iPhone 13 I used to take swimming daily in a salt pool, it was still running fine after 2 years of that, although the contacts in the lightning port did eventually corrode (now I can only charge it wirelessly)

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Post by PlotCitizen »

bamboozled wrote: post #104
pandemicsyn wrote: post #5

> "UNA is currently a non-submersible device due to its innovative modular design. So, swimming is not something we offer as an activity, nor do we advise it. UNA is IPX5 rated, which means it is splash & showerproof to a high degree." If I had a dollar for every time some project that was ipx5 rated failed after getting caught in the rain one too many times...I'd have enough to buy another Garmin Fenix.

Apple Watch owner , always been indestructible, especially the ultra

Got an SE 2 a year ago to track my daily swimming in the sea and it's been working great.

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Post by Melatonic »

RobotToaster wrote: post #110
peterleiser wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, and drop your iPhone, in a ruggedized case, into 3 inches of bath water for 5 seconds from a height of one foot and then realize apple's IP68 claim is laughable.

Most water rated devices will warn against wearing them in the shower/bath because surfactants (soaps) let water penetrate a lot easier.

I thought it was that the jets of water (sprayer) increase pressure and are actually harsher in some ways vs submerging ?

And of course high heat melts the glue (like hot tubs)

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