Open miathedev opened 3 years ago
Hi @miathedev,
Having the Health Device Profile within Asteroid would be awesome!
Workflow, IDE and Tools
I think most if not all developers and contributors use Linux for development. It's probably best to set up an AsteroidOS build environment and just re-run the btsyncd
recipe and install the generated .ipk package with opkg.
As for IDEs and tools, I personally use neovim
and vscodium
. It more or less comes down to your personal preferences. For debugging on the watch I use this strace binary and standard tools like journalctl
, dmesg
,... If you work on something with Qt/qml it can be useful to use Qt creator instead of a plain text editor.
Testing BLE Profiles
This is the ugly part of working with btsyncd
. You can only really test your changes of either side of the implementation with the other side or at least a partial implementation. For Linux clients, we have asteroidsyncservice as a component, which makes use of services defined in libasteroid
. On Android, we have UUIDs in AsteroidUUIDS and services implemented in the ble package.
Other recommendations If you have not already, you should definitely give our ble profile documentation a read. Feel free to chime in on our IRC (#asteroid on freenode). We are happy to answer specific questions you have (do note that replies can take a while).
As I haven't done much work on btsyncd
specifically maybe @FlorentRevest or @MagneFire can add their workflow recommendations.
Hey @miathedev :)
This sounds great! I'd love to have that profile supported upstream.
For the workflow, in addition to what jrt suggested, I would add that it's possible to setup asteroid-btsyncd in QtCreator using the instructions here https://asteroidos.org/wiki/creating-an-asteroid-app/#install-the-sdk the documentation page is written with QML apps in mind but to be fair it doesn't change much. If you do a lot of yocto dev at work I'm assuming that you'll figure out how to get the generated app to run as root etc...
For testing, I would recommend starting with a BLE scanner phone app, there are a bunch available in your store of choice. Like jrt said, it's a bit awkward to debug over two devices but I guess it's also part of the fun :)
edit: Other recommendations: sure, keep us posted and don't forget to upstream eheh :)
Dear AsteroidOS Team,
I really want to add the Health Device Profile for my sportswatch. https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/assigned-numbers/health-device-profile/ (Heart BPM)
Not sure if it is important. I baught the LG Watch Urbane W150 and im familiar with bitbake due to a lot yocto development in my job.