Why would a Linux smart watch be running a tty? On 10/02/2021 14:38, Martin McCormick wrote: > I've been looking for an inexpensive talking watch that doesn't > fall apart in 3 months and noticed that various entities are > trying to make linux-based smart watches. This might be a > perfect platform on which to run a speakup instance. > > One concept idea I read about used an ARM-based processor > like the raspberry Pi and even was supposed to support WiFi. > > If one needed 8 talking timers with each one playing a > different tune when it timed out, you might have to write the app > yourself, but the only limitation would be your imagination and > available RAM. If next week, you only needed one talking timer > but this timer should announce it's time at 2 minutes, 2 minutes > 37 seconds and finally 3 minutes and 27 seconds, you zap the 8 talking timers > and upload your new special talking timer executable. > > The WiFi would let your watch keep itself set via ntpd. > After all, it's a watch and the linux is the power tool that lets > you leap tall buildings at a single bound. > > Has anybody done this already and, if so, what platform > does it run on? > > The concept idea I read that used the ARM was written > over a year ago and, as far as I know, is still only a concept. > > Martin McCormick > -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- A. de Saint-Exupery https://cromarty.github.io/ http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/ http://www.raspberryvi.org/
