Audio commands via Bluetooth in Connect IQ

Former Member over 8 years ago

I have a very interesting question for the Connect IQ people here.

As you may know I am having small issues with feeling the vibration motor on my device. But I was wondering if there is any way to send voice commands to "Bluetooth headphones" from the device via Connect IQ ??

I do a lot of intervals .. and I know some smartphone apps will send you a command to the headphones like "Running at 6 mph" or "Distance is 5 miles" ..

I have had this in the past .. but I was wearing wired headphones. But I would buy Bluetooth headphones in an instant if I could send commands to the device.

I would like to know if I can send a "Start Run Interval" or "Start Walk Interval" to my Bluetooth headphones via Connect IQ ??

If Connect IQ cannot do it .. it would be a hugely cool thing to be able to do. Just think of all the fun things you could do to your app if you could do this :cool::cool:

EDIT .. I realized that even if this was possible, it would not work. But it was a good thought for the whole 10 minutes that it was a good idea.

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 8 years ago

You could probably do this via a companion smartphone app. Your Connect IQ app could using the Communications module to send some kind of notification to your companion app, and the companion app could handle playing the commands/sound over your BT headphones.

Former Member over 8 years ago

You could probably do this via a companion smartphone app. Your Connect IQ app could using the Communications module to send some kind of notification to your companion app, and the companion app could handle playing the commands/sound over your BT headphones.

Thanks .. I realized in the end I did not want to carry my smart phone. Maybe someone else can do it. :)

Former Member over 5 years ago

why wouldn't it work?

I would really need this on my Fenix 5 directly to bluetooth headphones (not via mobile phone!)

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

There is some of this on the music devices that support headphones, where auto prompts will come though connected headphones (but they are canned messages). On the 245 and 645, watch tones can also come through the connected headphone, so an app can play a tone, and you hear it while listening to music.

The f5 doesn't support BT headphones or music though..

peterdedecker over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Jim is right about this.

Something I hope that a future SDK will enable us is to play some of these canned messages at will and/or have a text to speech ability, this would be so much more useful (and more cool) than playing a tone.

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to peterdedecker

CIQ 3.1 does add something - you can set your own tones and aren't limited to those that are native, so you make tones more unique in your app. This is from the API doc.

if (Attention has :ToneProfile) {
    var toneProfile =
    [
        new Attention.ToneProfile( 2500, 250),
        new Attention.ToneProfile( 5000, 250),
        new Attention.ToneProfile(10000, 250),
        new Attention.ToneProfile( 5000, 250),
        new Attention.ToneProfile( 2500, 250),
    ];
    Attention.playTone({:toneProfile=>toneProfile});
}