What's your killer app use-case?

Jgideon 2014-10-15 16:00:57 UTC #1

I had my phone on the charger across the room last night. I held my gear live up to my face, said "Ok google, listen to the album Late for the Sky on the TV", which connected to the phone, routed to autovoice, routed to Tasker, routed to yatse, sent the command to xbmc, and started playing music out of the speakers. It felt really cool.

But in 2-3 months of playing around with smartwatches, I've only had half a dozen times when the system has actually felt really well integrated and as though it's really improving my tech experience in a distinct way. (most of the other times have involved sending a 1 word text message reply without having to break stride.)

What about everyone else? What's the point at which you realize "hey, this is doing something amazing for me"? Or what would you need to have your watch do that it doesn't, to have that feeling?

Motoluke93 2014-10-17 13:06:12 UTC #2

Did it take long to process considering all the different services it needed to go through?

I think the deep integrations with the smartwatches is going to be key, especially with things like Viper remote car start and home automation. Also I would love to see Uber for Androidwear so I can hail a car from my wrist...

Jgideon 2014-10-18 06:56:07 UTC #3

Nah, it probably took 5 seconds after recognizing the command. (Though sometimes it's not so quick with the connection to xbmc.)

It IS still pretty brittle, though. If you don't get the command 100% right it'll just silently fail. But autovoice and leveraging google now to do all sorts of things is what's really making this watch magical for me. (it does require root and xposed to work at this point, though.) (I think.)

Jgideon 2014-10-18 06:58:33 UTC #4

And... There's an uber app already, right? I see a 'call a car' entry in the Android wear menu on my phone.

Kaaxi 2014-10-18 16:28:11 UTC #5

I could see a killer app a texting app so you can cheat on multiple choice tests. For example one person sends #24 and I the other replies back B. Ideally with some covert options like shake wrist to turn off screen and disable notifications.

motomeup 2014-10-19 04:17:51 UTC #6

Lyft has an android wear app, but Uber doesn't as far as I know. Lyft is a similar car service. So, Motoluke93 should be able to hail a car with the watch as long as Lyft is available the area. The future is here!

My favourite thing to do is just to be able to reply to Hangout messages from the watch when I'm busy doing something and my phone is on a table that isn't near me. I'm always surprised at how accurate the voice recognition is.

Jgideon 2014-10-19 05:25:57 UTC #7

My only problem with that is if it mishears you, it sends so quickly you can't stop it from going out. (especially if you're in a car and can't take your hands off the wheel safely.)

But yeah, when it works, it's pretty magical. Also quick text messages on the go that i just wouldn't bother sending otherwise. I'm starting to learn what really works.

chunksoflemon 2014-10-21 19:35:27 UTC #8

The most useful thing to me about an android wear device would definitely be music control, and volume control.

My headphones don't have an inline controller just like many high end headphones, and I don't want to spend hundreds more dollars to get an equally nice pair of headphones with an inline control.

Easily accessible notifications as well as Google Now integration are also extremely useful as my life is fully integrated with Google services.

Can't wait until the 360 is released in Canada.

andrew 2014-10-21 20:00:28 UTC #9

guys, is there a walk-through or a guide on the internet on how to use tasker/yatse on how to do a deep integration?

Jgideon 2014-10-22 00:59:45 UTC #10

Hmm. No, not really. But there are things you can read up on and put it together.

http://www.pocketables.com/2013/06/beginners-guide-to-tasker-part-8-autovoice.html (and the rest of that series -- I never read it straight through, but I find myself glancing back at it when I have tasker questions)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2413533 (the actual autovoice->tasker->yatse functions)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-google-search-api-t2554173 (you need this in order for autovoice to intercept commands from the android wear watch -- check the last few pages for an updated version that works with the latest Google Search APKs)

andrew 2014-10-23 18:46:10 UTC #11

thank you very much jgideon! would have to go through it like a chimp to truly understand how will this work! i'm grateful for the information that you've shared!