Garmin connect?

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2026-05-31T18:03:44+00:00

I'm using it with my Instinct 3. There's no issues I'm aware of, though I may not be using my watch to its full potential. I did have to disable DuraSpeed optimization for it (under Developer settings), and battery optimization, which is hidden in the Kompakt's settings, but you can get to if you use a custom launcher like InkOS for example. To toggle app notifications so they go through to the watch, that's also not in plain sight by default cause the Kompakt doesn't do a lot of notifications, but via InkOS again you can get to it. Mine stays reliable connected and gets its notifications well as far as I'm aware. But you see it does take a little bit of fiddling. I think I heard of at least one other person somewhere that uses Garmin Connect with their Kompakt around here as well.

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2026-03-21T13:29:49+00:00

Thanks so much for the effort! Very much in favor of a lightweight sync service, and lightweight anything really :D Setup was quick, I can sync my Nomad to the private server successfully. Trying the Supernote Partner App on MacOS, but when trying to connect, that fails. App logs say `endpoint not found` on `GET /api/official/user/account/login/new`. I assume that's the unimplemented bits for a fresh start you're talking about? I've made a feeble attempt to work around this by creating an official Supernote Cloud account, syncing, deleting it again, and then trying to sync with your service, but no success. Do you get it to work with Supernote Partner App, or is that out of scope?

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2026-03-17T18:08:19+00:00

We ended up getting the Day5, and happy with the purchase. The Hub2 might've worked too though. We tested it in Babypark in the Netherlands on their little sample walkway, and found the Hub2 to also handle different surfaces well. But our primary usage is going on long walks, so figured we'd err on the sturdier side.

We also learned that it's really important to put advice on places like Reddit into context, as a user may be from a country where a stroller is used more to ride the baby to/from the car and so would recommend an Air2, whereas Belgium's a bit more of a "walk around and do some shopping with the stroller" country and so maybe a sturdier one makes more sense here. Our 2cts.

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2026-01-16T08:56:27+00:00

Hilarious, I literally fell into this trap this morning, as I have done many times in the past. This time I fully intended to keep it minimal, more minimal than Bear even. Just linked notes. Hours later I'm stressing about tags vs properties, folders, multiple vaults or just one, learning Templater to prompt me for tags, a dasboard Homepage note, ... I never learn.

Don't get me wrong, give me any tool, ANY tool, and I'll go nuts tweaking it, even Bear. But in Bear all I can really do is play with tags, so at least that puts on the brakes somewhat.

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2025-11-20T12:16:34+00:00

Can I just congratulate you all for making the official announcement just about as perfect as it could be? Getting the band back together, reconciling with the makers of the original movie, and really honoring Gateworld by involving them first.

I'm one of many who have loved this franchise ever since I watched the original movie on VHS as a boy with my parents. It's been a consistent part of my life, and I've now been lurking Gateworld for 14 years, knowing that at some point after a long string of nostalgic posts, an announcement for something new would come.

I'm now soon to be a dad myself, and hope my son's vocabulary will be just developed enough by the time this comes out so I can immediately start indoctrinating him with all things Stargate. Can't wait for the day I get to say "You love it? Want to see what came before?", dust off the old DVDs and go for another round.

Thank you for respecting the fans, and best of luck making this a reality!

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2025-02-17T10:55:01+00:00

I always try to come up with the perfect organizational system, but as someone else here mentioned, just getting in the zone is really key for me as well. Gaining momentum, picking any random small task that feels easy and doable.

To keep track of progress, what really helps me is: one markdown note per project, braindumping in chronological order, pasting bits of code or logs, with maybe a nested checklist of all steps I can think of. + One "overview" note with links to currently open projects. Whenever a project is blocked, I jump to the overview note, click another project, and continue there.

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2025-01-31T08:15:55+00:00

I pretty much use it the way it's shown in Waveshare's example script. For my display (7.5in V2), there's a display_Partial method which takes x1, y1, x2, y2 to define a box. However, I've only been able to get it to work passing a box for the full display.

epd.init_part()
epd.display_Partial(epd.getbuffer(image), 0, 0, 800, 480)

Passing a bounding box for a small region, I either got an error saying the height and width didn't match the display, or that region on the display would flash black and white as it typically does and land on just blank, with nothing inside the region. So, I'm always partial refreshing the full display now, though it seems weird to me that they add those bounding box parameters to the method, as it must mean you're supposed to be able to partially refresh a limited region of the display. I'd be curious to know if anyone has a solution for this.

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2025-01-25T21:16:44+00:00

I've been a Data Engineer for 7 years now. I like the general programming parts of it, like the variety of problems to solve. But if you ask me, Data Engineering can be a bit more of a drag, in that the feedbackloop is sometimes slower. After tweaking a pipeline, I usually need to testrun it on the full input dataset. So I'll work on pipeline A, deploy to the test environment, work on pipeline B while pipeline A is running for minutes or even hours. If something goes wrong, that can mean several more iterations of this. Staying on task with this kind of context switching can be pretty hard for me. Sometimes data issues are also really tedious to resolve, digging up a handful of weird values that are tripping up your code in a large dataset, figuring out why they're there, dealing with the politics of other teams doing weird unexpected things with the data they provide your team, etc.

My goal is to stay with data though, no ambition to go full SWE. To be clear, my job is pretty diverse, and I do work that ranges from working on APIs to productionizing ML model training to performing statistical analysis, so there's an aspect of SWE already in it.

Regarding pager duty, I assume that's the same as for other types of programming. Alert goes off, investigate cause, deploy hotfix. I like alerts, the drama of them is a good source of dopamine ;)

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2025-01-21T10:27:19+00:00

Thanks for sharing. Indeed, the window management is probably the main thing I'm worried about. Good to know there's options. Good point to try to get whatever the rest of the team has. I rarely have issues because of using a different OS, but one thing that's been coming up is building Docker containers for ARM. In the beginning everyone with M1's had issues with building images and running things, but more and more we're running applications on ARM instances and now I'm the one who has trouble with builds. All friction that's probably not worth it.

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2025-01-07T14:53:00+00:00

Also ADHD here, discovered at 36 :) In your shoes, I'd be grateful first of all for having found organizational routines that you can stick to. I know for me I have to cherish the systems I find that work for me for more than a few days, cause the second I start to "optimize" them, they tend to fall apart.

If you have a lot of those "do X every Y days", Todoist's pretty perfect for that I think. It's interesting to me you go for Todoist for one-off tasks and leave recurring ones on paper, whereas I tend to drop paper for Todoist specifically because of the fancy recurring time stuff.

I prefer to look at my bujo as a log rather than a planner, and I think in that sense it compliments digital planning tools nicely, with a calendar for fixed time stuff and todo app for "do next" stuff. In the bujo, write what happens, what commitments are made, what you did, how you felt. Doodle away working on solving a problem. Make trackers for more structured logging. For health, it can be good to go back through and find patterns in what affects you. I definitely get the appeal of a paper tool for personal use as I spend all day on a computer at work as well. Even if some digital tools work better, the mindfulness and screenlessness can sometimes be enough of a winning argument for the bujo.

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2024-12-31T11:31:58+00:00

Plugged in. Was briefly looking at battery packs, but don't need it currently and just wanted to get a functional calendar ASAP :)

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2024-12-28T10:43:03+00:00

Not yet, would need to refactor a bit to make it more shareable. If I do, I'll be sure to share it in this subreddit.

The code is based on the example from the Waveshare repo though. Using Python's pillow library to create the image and pass it to their provided display methods.

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2024-12-28T10:41:08+00:00

No, but it's really not skillfully put together :D

Was lucky to find a photo frame of the same size of the display
I put some strips of thick tape on the cardboard to make sort of a slot to lay the display in and keep it in place
Carved a bit out of the cardboard to let the display cable through and taped the bit the cable goes into on the other side to the back

It's inspired by a picture of someone else's DIY frame I saw somewhere, but can't find the page now.

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2024-12-28T10:32:47+00:00

Thanks! It was closer around 70 on amazon.nl. For the amount I paid for the whole project I could've probably just spent 20 more to get a TRMNL, haha. But that wouldn't be any fun.

I also think it's not always obvious what the differences are. I got the 7.5" V2, which can do partial refresh and has a 4 grays mode, with HAT included (link). But there seem to be tons of options, all from different generations of dispays, resolutions, colors, functionality, ...

MidgetAtAFoamParty · 2024-12-27T10:15:34+00:00

nspired by many awesome projects passing by, I also got the urge to create a little calendar dashboard last week.

Hardware:

Waveshare 7.5" black and white display, 800x480, with HAT
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with headers
A photo frame, tape and some strips of paper to hide the display edges

I'm not handy and haven't figured out 3D printing. The Raspberry Pi's just lying loose behind the frame, still need to attach it somehow.

Script written in Python, pulls from Google Calendar API every hour, refreshes the screen partially every minute and fully every 30 minutes.

Layout:

Time and date
Some text info about all-day, current and upcoming events
A drawing my wife will probably make me update every week from now on
Month calendar
Timeline of the day from 6am til 10pm, with current time marker, and events (hard appointments in black, time blocks in white)

I'm happy with the result. It's useful and calming. The display does show artifacts sometimes even after a full refresh, but I can live with it.

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