Re:Google open-sources the Pebble OS
by hexxeh on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:41PM
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The HRM aspect is mostly a small binary blob that ought to be fairly straightforward to re-integrate. The far larger issue is the lack of a Bluetooth stack.
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This is really unfortunate for the existing users, especially given their profound loyalty. However, more modern chips have all of this loaded in a bootloader of sorts (e.g. nRF softdevices), so the project could prevent the RF driver nonsense going forward.