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Controlling A Robot With Android Wear Smartwatch

As discussed in this thread: https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/9107 I have been working on controlling my robots from my new Android Wear watch.

Eventually, I want to make a plugin and an Android Wear app to make this easier, but with the combination of 3 (unfortunately, all paid) android apps, I now have a controller. Note: Unlike the Apple watch app that DJ wrote that uses ARC Mobile, this one requires a PC running ARC and the TCP Client connection activated.

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The app has 5 configurable buttons, which I have set up for basic movement panel, but each button actually supports tap, double tap, press and hold, and swipe so I could add 15 additional functions.

It uses the following three apps:

Tasker https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm

Send/Expect https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asif.plugin.sendexpect

and AutoWear https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joaomgcd.autowear

There are some issues with AutoWear on Android Wear 6.0.1 (the latest version) but none that impact this function, it just took some work to set up because I could not get through the setup wizard, and some of the features (like gesture support) don't work, but the multi-button function I used work fine.

If anyone else has an Android Wear watch and wants me to put together a tutorial, post here and if there is enough interest I'll write up instructions and post my Tasker files.

Alan


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Belgium
#9  

not at this moment,just bouth two robots.

PRO
USA
#10  

Alan,

nice work, you really like plug & play, 3 different apps, plus all the glitches ...

soon you will start thinking in a plugin.

sorry my ignorance/laziness, does your watch have speakers & microphone like apple watch ?

#11  

It has a microphone, and can connect to Bluetooth headphones or speakers to listen to audio from the phone. It vibrates, but does not have a speaker. It can direct the phone it is paired with to play audio though.

Alan

#13  

@Pinocchio... Why does Alan want to see your adventure bot? You posting in the wrong thread again?

#14  

Hey Alan, this all sounds very interesting...I am not really sure if I would want to buy some Android wear in the near future, I just bought a Fitness Tracker to have another option to interact with my robot. But if I had known all these options, I would have gone for the wear!

Anything that will let us combine services or talk to different devices is well apreciated within the community I would guess...because thats where the fun starts right?

Keep us updated, cool stuff!:D

PRO
Belgium
#15  

rr

alan has same wrong config like me from adventure bot,so i figur it out. we where looking the config from jeremie,i found that and place the link here, cause we where talking about the watsh and i wrote below a PS i found the config from jeremie,that text is gone,i dont see it. so somebody has removed.

#16  

Thanks Patrick, I saw your post. (I wouldn't say we have it configured wrong, as we followed the build instructions and/or tutorial, just that there is a different version in several of hte pictures and videos that looks like it solves the low clearance problem we have seen).

RR, it is OK. Patrick and I were discussing Adventurebot build configuration in another thread. If we had private messaging, we wouldn't need to hijack threads to find each other....

Alan