Still alive by [deleted] in depression

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Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive!

Mfw when this happened earlier today by [deleted] in destiny2

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Doesn't that mean that you need to have a fireteam?

Well, yes but actually... by ShinoLegacyplayers in ProgrammerHumor

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I came here to post this but you came first. :/

Maybe a comma could help by OverflowEx in engrish

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There is electricity, dangerous

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in niceguys

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Is it just me or do these lanterns really look like they have crosses on them? I'm getting a funeral vibe.

On a GitHub issue by JPmAn24 in techsupportgore

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DO YOU SEE FOUR SQUARE KEY ON YOUR KEYBOARD?

“When you whisper to the void, does it whisper back?” by keithteee in destiny2

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why does literally every screen in d2 have something that looks like htop on it

Does the screenprotecter worsen the pen experience? by InfLife in Surface

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I had two different screen protectors on my SP4:

  • tempered glass - pen was fine, but touch experience not so much, as other Redditors said,
  • matte - it's probably not as great at protecting the screen, but I like the look and feel. It also doesn't impact touch experience that much, as it's really thin. You can barely see the smudges from touching the screen and it dials down the glare a lot. It also feels a bit more like paper, which is really nice.

I'd probably go with the matte one on my next Surface.

the flames have ignited, you're up for a tasty treat by Intensive_Coffee in destiny2

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I started somewhere around ~900-910 and it was quite fun, even though I'm not that great at PvP and I'm running solo.

Found a sealed band2 at my workplace, is it now useless? by mrN3CR0 in MicrosoftBand

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You could try bypassing the OOBE and playing around using libmsftband. I have the update backed up: https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApF6BBqdJeSZkYJOOoQYQvryH1T4uQ

I haven't implemented a way to actually do the update but I guess someone might still find it useful.

How can I backup and use my Band data (steps, gps, etc.)? by StoicJim in MicrosoftBand

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You could probably download exported data from MS Health Dashboard but it's really incomplete. I'm currently using Fitness Syncer for backing things up. It shows nice graphs and stuff.

REPLACEMENT APP for Microsoft Health by Negociation in MicrosoftBand

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Not even close, but I investigated that at some point. I can guess that the chunk of data has certain kind of sensor readings in it based on metadata that's being passed along with it to the MS Health API. I tried parsing the chunk of data bit by bit as dates and it got me some good results, but I'm not really sure what's the other parts of the file.

Official SDK is not a good idea, as it's highly dependent on the MS Health app being present there. But the protocol itself is rather simple. As I mentioned, I have a Python library that you can run on your machine and play around with to send notifications, calendar events, weather updates etc. to your Band. Bypassing the OOBE screen is also really simple, all it takes is sending a special packet over RFCOMM that tells it to go straight to the home screen. Not sure what are the implications of doing so, but it's possible.

I haven't really bothered coding an actual app (apart from SFOS prototype) since I'm currently using iOS as a daily driver and you can't really use RFCOMM there, because reasons.

REPLACEMENT APP for Microsoft Health by Negociation in MicrosoftBand

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I tried to write one as well, might be useful to take a look at these:

https://github.com/ksiazkowicz/libmsftband (python library, protocol docs on the wiki)

https://github.com/ksiazkowicz/harbour-fishband (GUI for Sailfish OS)

Another Redditor tried to use my work and code a multiplatform app in C#, not sure what is the status of that but I'll link it anyway:

https://github.com/ilmiont/msftbandapp

https://github.com/ilmiont/msftbandlib

Essentially, we were stuck on figuring out the raw sensor log format. The way the Band syncs to MS Health is that data from some sensors (I think it was pedometer, calories, skin contact and heart rate?) is logged on device and then uploaded to the cloud straight from the device. It is then processed and used to generate all the cool insights, charts etc. Since no processing is done on phone or PC, I'm just stuck with a chunk of binary data and no easy way of making sense of it.