[Mockup] Apple Watch App

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Hey guys,
IMPORTANT: I have no programming skills, little photoshop skills, i’m an apple fanboy and the following pictures are FAKE. I just want to show you my idea and this project is NOT in work.

(I wanted to write “Bedside lamp” )

Yesterday i received my Apple Watch. I dont want to talk about the device but about the possibility of pimatic to rule our smart homes with the newest tech from today.
I thought about how pimatic could be controlled via this little computer on my wrist and photoshopped some pictures to show other people what i talk about:

All picutres:
http://imgur.com/a/bOZFm#0

Hello thymian,

I’m currently working on connecting the Apple Watch to pimatic.
As the Watch communicates only with the iPhone (no direct connection to a server) a native iOS App is needed to access the pimatic server. Therefore I’ve created an iOS framework which I made available on Bitbucket today: https://bitbucket.org/difdev/ddpimatickit
Currently I’m investigating what’s needed for the Watch App.
After this is done I’ll create a first version of an iOS App, which will have a simple UI to display values and control devices. The app will also allow you to configure the values and control ui for the Watch App.
But this will take some more time …

Regards,
Dirk

If you want to control pimatic on the apple watch you can download the Home Remote app. With the pimatic api you can control pimatic with buttons on the watch.

@dif Wow a real iOS app? Can’t wait for that I assume you use the existing iOS interface elements?

Would be very nice. The app should be easy and have elements like this.

@sweebee thanks for the great tip, i didnt know this app is apple watch compatible right now
@dif That sounds great! I know you first need an iphone app to make an apple watch app as they currently only work as -extension-. If you need any help like alpha tests or just sth. just send me a pm. I also got a apple developer account.

Mockup of iOS app

@sweebee: I’ll at least replace the UISwitch with a custom UI control with a bigger hit area
@thymian: Developer account sounds great. If I’ve something for testing I’ll contact you.

@dif: thank you for sharing your code. I was thinking about developing an app for android and i think this could help a lot for me on how the socket.io API and the login works.

Really impressim work @dif, @thymian, @sweebee.

@Oitzu I’ve a android wip app in development. So before you start, contact me, then we can join forces.

I’ve extended the framework test app with a simple Apple Watch test app.
It connects to the pimatic demo server by default.
Functions:

• display first attribute of a device with template ‘device’
• display and switching of a device with template ‘switch’
• all other devices are ignored
• live updates
• tested with simulator, no watch yet

@thymian: I’ve updated the develop branch with the Watch app. Can you give it a try to see if it works on a watch? The server url and credentials are hardcoded in InterfaceController.m(willActivate) if you want to change it.

@sweetpi: How do you map a device to an ui control except using the template property? Do you have the actions hardcoded for a given template like always calling turnOn/turnOff for a switch? Or do you have some generic algorithm like investigating the type of attribute and finding an appropriate action?

@dif Really nice, can’t wait for a iOS app

i cant wait for a android app

@dif i had little time last days, will hopefully try it tomorrow. I never installed demo apps on my ios devices before. I guess it will take some hours to figure out how.

Any tutorials/videos u suggest me to learn it faster?

edit: ehm where exactly can i find the develop branch (of which github repo)?

@thymian: Do you have any experience with Xcode? If not it’s much easier, if you send me(dif@difdev.de) the UUID of your iPhone(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJppx4Wc-GI) and I’ll generate a version which you can install using iTunes.

Any news about the apple watch app? I’m also interested in to have one

@chris321 Sorry Chris, no app available yet. I’ve worked on the iOS App first and reached a state where control of most devices was possible. Then unfortunately I’ve got multiple parallel projects in my job -> no time to work on my private projects during the last 2 month
I hope to continue with the work in October