IP Connection
Configuring an IP connection on your watch has to be done manually until a GUI settings option is available. On watches that support WLAN, you can enable Wi-Fi and configure the connection using connmanctl
like described below. Forwarding IP requests to a connected PC via USB is another option, explained in the second paragraph.
By default, there is no root
or ceres
password, and no firewall rules. A password can be set using the passwd command.
IP over WLAN (WiFi)
Connect to your watch using ssh root@192.168.2.15
or adb shell
.
# connmanctl connmanctl> enable wifi connmanctl> scan wifi connmanctl> services connmanctl> agent on connmanctl> connect wifi_CODE-FOR-YOUR-SSID connmanctl> quit
Check whether an IP address has been assigned to the watch using ip a show dev wlan0
or ifconfig wlan0
.
Note that activated WLAN consumes additional power. Currently, it is recommended to disable the function after use. connmanctl disable wifi
is used to disable Wi-Fi and power off WLAN temporarily. connmanctl enable wifi
activates WLAN again and connects to the last used Wi-Fi network.
Some more documentation on connman can be found on ArchWiki.
IP over USB
It is possible to allow your watch to be able to use your Linux computer's internet connection via a USB connection. You will need:
- A Linux computer with RNDIS support loaded and enabled
- The ability to change network configurations on that computer
- A network connection
This works by using the RNDIS driver to allow the USB device to appear to be a network interface. RNDIS stands for "Remote Network Driver Interface Specification" and was a proprietary protocol from Microsoft. It is supported in Linux by the rndis_host
driver. This driver may either be compiled into the kernel, or more typically provided as an optional module. If you're not sure, you can try this lsmod
to see if it's loaded on your computer.
lsmod | grep ndis rndis_host 24576 0 cdc_ether 24576 1 rndis_host usbnet 61440 2 rndis_host,cdc_ether
If it isn't you might be able to use modprobe rndis_host
(with root privileges) to install the module.
Once the rndis_host
is installed and running, you can enable Network Address Translation (NAT) to allow your Linux computer to share it's internet IP address with the watch. To configure a NAT on your computer (Note: Replace eth0 with the name of the interface that connects your computer to the Internet) with:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
Here again, you might need root privileges for those commands, depending on how your computer is configured.
Configure a default gateway and DNS on the watch with the following commands ran via SSH as the root user:
route add default gw 192.168.2.1 echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" >> /etc/resolv.conf
Note that this assumes that your computer's IP address on RNDIS is 192.168.2.1, which is the default, but if you have multiple watches, or have plugged and unplugged the same watch a few times, it might be different. To make sure, on the watch, you can type who
and it will reply with something like this:
root pts/0 00:01 Jun 9 08:06:24 192.168.2.2
In this particular case, the address shown is 192.168.2.2, so the first command listed above would be route add default gw 192.168.2.2
.