austinhull/steampebble

Hull Softworks'(Austin Hull's) open-source Pebble application is intended to - at least to a certain degree - bridge the gap between Steam users and their Pebble smart watches!

Wrist Steam

NOTE: AS OF JANUARY 2019, ANY AND ALL SUPPORT FOR STEAMPEBBLE IS DISCONTINUED DUE TO THE PEBBLE LINE OF HARDWARE BEING DISCONTINUED. ANY INTERESTED DEVELOPERS ARE STILL FREE TO FORK AND WORK WITH MY EXISTING PROJECT CONTRIBUTIONS AT THEIR LEISURE!

Hull Softworks'(Austin Hull's) open-source Pebble application is intended to - at least to a certain degree - bridge the gap between Steam users and their Pebble smart watches!

Note: License details are currently present in all code files of this project, but may still be added to this readme later.

As the program is still not considered to be fully "feature complete", there may be lots of excess and redundant code in the program for purposes relating to testing, design, and implementation (in no particular order) of features.

I started this project during the summer after my junior year of highschool(2014), and have been working on it during my free-time ever since. Due to this, progress of development on this project may seem "erratic" compared to other works of software. As of now, I am mostly reserved to working on SteamPebble during extended breaks between school quarters.

The purpose of Wrist Steam is to help give Steam users of the Pebble wearer-base a closer connection between their two systems. Right now, the scope of the project simply involves taking a user's public ID data, and submitting it through Steam's API services in order to retrieve relevant user data to be displayed to the user through the Pebble watch. That being said, the project is certainly not designed without the possibility of further improvements and feature developments for later on.

steampebble's Issues

Occasionally, Application Fails to Retrieve User Data on Startup

Even with web connectivity, the application very occasionally fails to retrieve valid JSON data from the Steam API services. I am unsure if this issue is specific to the Wrist Steam application, or if it is dependent on certain characteristics of the Pebble phone app's connection between the web and/or the Pebble smartwatch.

App's Configuration Page Should Be Made More User Friendly

Currently, configuring the application for use with the user's Steam account requires going through a relatively-inconvenient process of looking up said user's 64-bit SteamID by hand. If I can manage to implement Steam's OpenID login system into the app's Configuration webpage, the set-up process for the end-user should improve immensely! PS: If I have time, I should try to have the Configuration page show the last-entered Steam account name, as a way to improve the presentation and feel of the UX.

Friends List Cannot Display Indefinite Number of Entries

During development of latest release, attempted to implement Friends List feature with a customizable number of entries to be displayed. Current attempts have yielded unsuitable results, usually with various names overwriting other names on each entry-space of the list.