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WearOS app for Lucid Motors' vehicles

It looks like Apple watches currently have about 50% market share in the USA, with increasing competition from Android at about 20%, Garmin around 15%.
As usual Apple is the easy choice if you want developer support.

Choosing other brands for their unique advantages may mean you may not get the support you'd like.
A combination of two niche products (Lucid + Android or Lucid + Garmin) has a much lower chance of support than one mainstream product plus one niche product, or the opposite.

My new front door entry lock will open up when approached with Apple digital keys, but Android support is still TBD.
 
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DeaneG said:
It looks like Apple watches currently have about 50% market share in the USA, with increasing competition from Android at about 20%, Garmin around 15%.
As usual Apple is the easy choice if you want developer support.

Choosing other brands for their unique advantages may mean you may not get the support you'd like.
A combination of two niche products (Lucid + Android or Lucid + Garmin) has a much lower chance of support than one mainstream product plus one niche product, or the opposite.

My new front door entry lock will open up when approached with Apple digital keys, but Android support is still TBD.
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I'm in the 15% with a Garmin, this looks awesome and would love to have something like this on my arm.
 
Beast W/O a Roar said:
I'm in the 15% with a Garmin, this looks awesome and would love to have something like this on my arm.
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You just need to find a retired engineer who owns a Garmin watch and a Lucid, and wants to try writing an app using AI tools. :)
 
DeaneG said:
I was thinking of putting it on Google's app store as a beta-level release. I think it's ready and could do this with a little work navigating Google's process.
But I'm concerned about someone leaving their car's trunk open in a rainstorm and then wanting to blame me using lawyers.
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@kandid may or may not be able to help
 
sri said:
This demonstrates that Lucid is inadequate regarding software.
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No, it doesn’t. It demonstrates that enterprising consumers can do amazing things with AI now, when the sum total of their customers includes… themselves.

Things are harder when you’re building something for more than one person. @DeaneG *already* is worried about liability because of our litigious culture, and he hasn’t even released anything yet lol.

@DeaneG at a minimum, you should toss it on GitHub and let people sideload. Does Android have an equivalent of “TestFlight”?

Pinging @LucidDropkick for thoughts too
 
sri said:
It is unclear what issue exists there. Owners are creating tools that could assist others, yet Lucid stays at the blind side of delivering such things to owners.
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We are all literally using Lucid’s API which, while unpublished, exists because they built it. The Python bindings and everything else the community has built rely on that API.

We are building things because we love the car, not because Lucid is incapable of building things.

It’s okay to be happy and excited sometimes, and not everything requires criticism.
 
doubletwist said:
A quick query of Claude suggests it would either need to talk through an endpoint of some kind (either self hosted, or something like AWS Lambda), or use a companion app running on the phone (probably easier to keep secure).
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I just looked into it as well...the self hosted option could be somewhat easy. As long as you have a static dns/ip, you could build the python server at home and just have it be the link between the garmin and lucid api? I haven't coded in years so i may be off base
 
borski said:
...@DeaneG at a minimum, you should toss it on GitHub and let people sideload. Does Android have an equivalent of “TestFlight”?...
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I can set it up on Google's app store as a closed beta test. Google actually requires this and a certain amount of beta-level testing before any public release anyway. There would be a link that allows a controlled number of potential beta users to install the app. I'm thinking about doing that.

I'd like to put it on Github, but as an EE who stopped coding before public repositories and version control systems became commonplace, I've never used it and would have to find the time to learn.
 
DeaneG said:
I'd like to put it on Github, but as an EE who stopped coding before public repositories and version control systems became commonplace, I've never used it and would have to find the time to learn.
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Learning? What's that? Isn't that the thing AIs do?
 
segbrk said:
Learning? What's that? Isn't that the thing AIs do?
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Perfect, I'll just give Google's AI write access to GitHub and let it have a go!
 
I decided to open this watch app up for "internal testing" on the Google Play app store. If you'd like to try it, DM me your gmail address, and I'll add your google account to the authorized user list. After that, I'll email you a link to the app's internal testing site on the Play store. You can click on the link on your phone, and if all goes well, it will prompt you to install the app on your watch.

Note that this is beta-level software with about two days of intermittent testing by one person. Install and use it at your own risk.
 
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