All Messages

Q: Can you make custom solar panel?

Asked by JJHoward on 2019-08-23 09:11:59

Mark Hurley My test panel has been in window for ~6 months and still outputting power. I don't see why you couldn't --- do the math and have to figure out if its worth it or to just buy a larger panel ready to go?

2019-08-25 06:55:07 Helpful (0)
Submit
Answers (1)
Mark Hurley 27/08/2018
The watch is fully featured set of hardware capabilities supporting cellular 3G, bluetooth, wifi, contains a camera to capture still and videos. This watch is not using Google Wear's OS. It is built on Android 5.1. This watch lacks certain aspects -- that are locked to China -- and cannot be changed. For example, temperature is in Celsius only and cannot be changed. There is a no recent calls or favorite contacts list -- if you want to call someone -- you have to hunt and find it each time in your contacts list. Or you can use a phone dial app if you remember their number. The iOS app named WiiWatch --- is ok. But not great and is showing its age. It for example established connection with your iOS phone. The alerts do show up on your watch, as well as phone calls -- but the alert itself cannot be customized and it has some background with flowers you cannot change. Also the WiiWatch app seems heavily focused on fitness/health, but ignores things like syncing your iOS contact list with the phone or customizing features of your phone using the app. You can download apps from the Google Play store -- Android apps but they may not show up properly or may show up with very small text making it very difficult to read on the smaller watch screen. Connecting this phone to cellular (AT&T in US) worked with a nano sim chip. However, at this current time you cannot join two phone numbers together as this device is not recognized by AT&T as a watch device. AT&T did tell me they would set it up as a watch such that I can join two phone numbers. It may take 1-2 weeks, so no update yet. The battery is what you would expect in a watch -- I don't expect miracles. If you turn on GPS navigation -- like I tried— the watch will die before you get to your destination. You start to see why the AppleWatch leverages the capabilities of the phone so much and has largely been a second screen. This watch fully charged — runs down to about 75% — then a crazy battery alarm goes off saying the battery needs charging — and I cannot figure out how to disable it. One time I also received the battery was too hot….I wasn’t charging it. Possibly related to running updates — used a lot of juice warming things up internally in the process. Would I recommend it? Sure if you want a part time watch/gadget. Would I dump more money in it and call it my every day watch? No, sorry — too many quirks and nuances that cannot be fixed and no software update path in sight.
0
Recommendations
Comments (1)