Postmarketos developers, distribution for smartphones based on Alpine Linux, Musl and BusyBox, Implemented User interface for smart watches based on projects of project Asteroidos . The postmarketos distribution was originally developed for smartphones and provided the ability to use different user interfaces , including Kde Plasma Mobile , Phosh and sxmo . For several years now, postmarketos ports have been developing for smart hours LG G Watch and LG G Watch R , which still have been limited to boot capabilities in command line mode, as Available in Postmarketos Custom shells for smartphones too Heavy and inorganized for such devices.
The decision was the creation of the ASTEROID interface port, prepared specifically for smart watches. The specified interface is developing asteroidos project and was originally used in combination with the MER system environment. Asteroid includes a selection of necessary applications for smart watches written in QT 5 using QML and operating surrounded by the shell Asteroid-Launcher , including Composite server based on Wayland protocol.
In order to interact with the equipment in Asteroidos, the LIBHYBHYBRIS interlayer is involved, which implies the use of drivers from the Android platform, but the prepared port for Postmarketos is adapted to use the standard Linux drive stack. The port is prepared together with the developers of the ASTEROIDOS project. It is noted that the appearance of the ASTEROID port in Postmarketos will allow you to implement full-fledged support in the platform and proceed to porting new devices. Replacing the firmware on Postmarketos can be an interesting solution to continue the life of old smart chas, the accompaniment time by the manufacturer for which has already expired.