I’m testing the rephone since days and I found some bugs, need-to-be-improved small annoying stuff and finally came up with the need of a new os, the reOS.
For hacking, the current is totally OK and I really love some of its features. It’s a great job!
But I would like to make a commercial-grade (in quality), good-looking smartwatch.
My very first idea was to build one from scratch, about a year ago. With memory LCD, killing battery life of 30+ days and useful, but hardcoded functions. And I found the rephone.
But I want to end up with a good os, so I will do it a professional software engineer way, with planning, requirements engineering and agile methods - I know it’s far from a garage project. It needs that level of attention.
The goal is to start the coding phase as soon as the 4G edition arrives - the 2G is good, but make it future-proof. I’ll probably host a server by myself for TFS (or jus use git, undecided) and other stuff, so any active help will be welcome!
So, to be active: the first fork with some initial adjustments is ready. (screen timeout changed to 5 sec and removed green heartbeat LED)
If you want to copy the binary, don’t forget to change it in the startup.txt!
Update: requirements for the software.
Feel free to ask for write access if you have ideas.
(it’s just a draft at this phase, proper documentation will be made)
I couldn’t wait, so I started to rewrite the GUI framework for the RePhone - from scratch.
It now handles touch and button events for waking the device (and also sleeping with the button)
What to expect: C++ everywhere (the only C files are the drivers). No Arduino, Lua, etc. Sorry, I want to make it a professional project
And now it only turns on and off, nothing fancy. The list of TODO-s is huge:
hunt down the GUI glitches (the white screen and the RePhone’s GUI lag, when you turn the screen on and it takes 1 frame to refresh)
implement working Widgets (button and switch, label/text, power indicator, signal strength)
implement “Scenes” (a predefined canvas with content like the main screen or the settings screen)
save so much power as possible (now the backlight engine even releases the timers when possible to save even that amount of power)
