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• I demand BangleJS3!

  in Bangle.js • 4 days, 5 hours

  

  My wishlist:

  1. OLED or (even cooler) e-ink
     
  2. more buttons (useful but not strictly needed)
     
  3. accelerometer with integrated step counter (Bosch has some really good ones)
     
  4. PPG sensor with well documented HW and SW
     
  5. multi color PPG (for example green and infrared) for oxygen saturation
     
     

  I think that there is demand for really programmable smartwatches. So far the only ones I am aware of are yours and PineTime.

• Bangle.js 2 Cutting Edge - new heart rate algorithm

  in Bangle.js • 5 months, 4 weeks

  

  Hello all,

  very interesting developments here!
  I have been trying the new algorithms myself too. I had the Heart Rate Monitor app on the Bangls JS (version 2 bought from Kickstarter campaign, FW 2v19), and another smartwatch plus a PPG from the samrtphone on the other arm. I have noticed some differences, especially at lower HRs, but couldn't do this very systematically. I am planning to do some more tests with a bluetooth Polar ECG belt in the coming days and will report back.

  I have read in this thread that the manufacturer's library also supports SPO2 and Blood Pressure. It would be extremely interesting to receive these 2 as well. I do not trust BP at all, but SPO2 is doable and has been proven reliable on other devices (for example Withings). Is there any plan to support these? And /or to allow collecting PPG from the 2 LEDs (my understanding is that there is a green LED and an Infrared LED)?

  Thanks!

• PPG analysis beyond HR at rest

  in Bangle.js • 2 years

  

  For developing a good algorithm we would need the following:

  1. raw PPG signal (as it comes from the driver)
     
  2. acceleration signal (useful for trying out motion artefacts cancellation)
     
  3. reference HR
     
     

  looks like we can get all of them with the apps we have?

• HR algorithm: how does it work?

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• PPG analysis beyond HR at rest

  in Bangle.js • 2 years

  

  Hi all,

  linking to this other thread, I had setup a repo for testing algorithms on Bangle JS. We currently have algos for step counting but it would make sense to add HR as well.

  I have some student working on HR from PPG on mobile phones, but, if time allows, would like also to contribute to BangleJS.

  The first thing to do would be to collect raw PPG data, as it comes to the algorithm, with a reference HR from another, trusted, sensor.

  Once we are happy with the HR, it would be also cool to see if we can extract other parameters, such as respiration rate, but that would probably come later...

• HR algorithm: how does it work?

  in Bangle.js • 2 years

  

  thanks for the explanation, now it's more or less clear.

  As for testing, I have created a repo for testing the algos of BangleJS. Currently it contains only the step counter, but we could happily add also the heart rate. The idea is to upload some test data with reference (maybe coming from another commercial sensor) and benchmark different algorithms.

• HR algorithm: how does it work?

  in Bangle.js • 2 years

  

  Hi,

  I have some students developing an algorithm to detect HR from raw PPG. We are trying to make the algorithm somewhat hardware indipendent, so the outcome could be applicable to Bangle as well (if good enough!). But first I wanted to understand how the current implementation works.

  I know you used to compute autocorrelation at some point, but the current algorithm seems more like a peak detector? As the code is not greatly commented, can anybody (Gordon?) explain a little what is the idea behind?

  Thanks a lot,
  Dario

• Better Pedometer - HELP NEEDED!

  in Bangle.js • 2 years, 6 months

  

  I forget how little portable C is!
  OK, I have renamed time_t to sc_time_t so it doesn't conflict with linux time_t. Try pulling.

  Need some 1 hour logs for sleep, driving, working, sitting watching TV - all ZERO step logs.

  Yes, but let's not forget collecting steps data under different circumstances (slow walk, fast walk, running, etc).

  It would be nice if we could involve other users, just to confirm that there are no major differences across devices.

• Bangle Js v2

  in Bangle.js • 2 years, 6 months

  

  Hi @fanoush, I have followed your work closely in the past. I can see that this is a collaboration among the best experts in reverse engineering watches there are around 😀!

  As far as I understand what you are saying, the driver is just an implementation of the I2C protocol, and you have reverse-engineered it. Quite an achievement without a datasheet.

  As for the higher level library, the reason why you do not want to use it is because it's not open sourced?

  In any case, the fact that it requires acceleration is an indication that it makes use of it to probably discard data that is corrupted by movement. We could probably record some raw signals, including acceleration and PPG and put them in a repository for benchmarking different versions of algorithms. We would also need a reference heart rate for that, which we can obtain from another device, like a Polar or similar. Then we could invite people to test their best algorithms in some sort of competition...

  I am working on an HR detection algorithm with students, but using the PPG from a smartphone. As the problem is similar, I may try to include data from the BangleJS as well. I'll keep you informed.

• Better Pedometer - HELP NEEDED!

  in Bangle.js • 2 years, 6 months

  

  Hello, I have added the espruino step counter as well (with minor changes in names). Looks like it has better accuracy than the Oxford one, especially in absence of movement. Well done!

  We could use this repository to try to improve the algos with further tweaking. Pull requests are very welcome.