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Bangle.js App Loader (and Apps)
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Gadgetbridge Ack/Result Android->Bangle #3466

Closed Chriz76 closed 5 months ago

Chriz76 commented 5 months ago

When sending a broadcast e.g. uart.tx from Automate is there a way to check if the command reached the espruino device? Or is it even possible to get the console output of the statement?

I need this to do retries but in some cases it would also be interesting to read the result.

Gadgetbridge supports this for other non espruino intents by sending a broadcast with the result of an action. So it should be not too hard to add this to gadgetbridge as an optional parameter: SendAck/SendResult.

What do you think?

I once commited another small change to gadgetbridge so I could give it a try.

bobrippling commented 5 months ago

@gfwilliams are you familiar with GB and so on?

thyttan commented 5 months ago

I don't have familiarity with those standard responses you write about. But it's of course possible to code the watch side to send a message back to Gadgetbridge, e.g. via the Intents messages, https://www.espruino.com/Gadgetbridge#intents , or maybe by other means.

You can use those to do arbitrary intent broadcasts on your android device.

Chriz76 commented 5 months ago

Thank you!

I don't have familiarity with those standard responses you write about.

Gadgetbridge's bluetooth intent api is one example. You can trigger a connect via an intent and Gadgetbridge will send a broadcast when the connection was established: https://gadgetbridge.org/internals/automations/intents/#bluetooth-connection-api

But it's of course possible to code the watch side to send a message back to Gadgetbridge,

I guess that gadgetbridge already receives the result of the uart.tx call. Gadgetbridge currently just doesn't broadcast it. It also doesn't broadcast when it failed to deliver the calls.

But for my purpose your suggestion might be the right solution and won't require me to change gadgetbridge: I just ACK from my bangle js app and Automate will wait for the ACK and otherwise resend the message.

thyttan commented 5 months ago

I guess that gadgetbridge already receives the result of the uart.tx call. Gadgetbridge currently just doesn't broadcast it. It also doesn't broadcast when it failed to deliver the calls.

I haven't looked at the Gadgetbridge source to verify but I don't think so. Also guessing here, but I think uart.tx only sends instructions over to the watch. If you want a response I think you need to explicitly program that yourself - either in the uart.tx message or in a destination app on the watch.

What indicates to you that you should get a response automatically?

thyttan commented 5 months ago

I think here is where the broadcasted intent is received and handled for Bangle.js: https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/src/commit/1f1fc33e4388a3386dd08ed79f0ae4ff8139e8ec/app/src/main/java/nodomain/freeyourgadget/gadgetbridge/service/devices/banglejs/BangleJSDeviceSupport.java#L295

Chriz76 commented 5 months ago

I think here is where the broadcasted intent is received and handled for Bangle.js: https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/src/commit/1f1fc33e4388a3386dd08ed79f0ae4ff8139e8ec/app/src/main/java/nodomain/freeyourgadget/gadgetbridge/service/devices/banglejs/BangleJSDeviceSupport.java#L295

I looked at this code and assumed that sending the commands uses the existing ble connection that has a back channel:

https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/src/commit/2cb5844020a4df0e7eb29180b32a8d93e76fbdd8/app/src/main/java/nodomain/freeyourgadget/gadgetbridge/service/devices/banglejs/BangleJSDeviceSupport.java#L162

And it is handled in the same way on the bangle and in android like the web ide. So the result may already arrive in gadgetbridge.

gfwilliams commented 5 months ago

That last link is to ~2 year old code btw.

We do currently send a local intent out when we get data back, but we don't want to broadcast it because it could contain sensitive info: https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/src/branch/master/app/src/main/java/nodomain/freeyourgadget/gadgetbridge/service/devices/banglejs/BangleJSDeviceSupport.java#L1224-L1227

But realistically knowing what data you want to receive after sending a command is the problem. The UART is just a channel, and there's no 'framing' - data is sent and received but there's no way to say 'this data is the response to that command'.

As @thyttan says, it's best just to have the Bangle broadcast an intent back: https://www.espruino.com/Gadgetbridge#intents

At least then you know that your command has not only been sent, but has executed correctly too

Chriz76 commented 5 months ago

Thank all of you. Sending back the intent from my own code in bangle makes most sense.

So currently I see no reason to keep this issue open. Thanks again!