My personal iWatch chatter

Assume you are without your mobile, just a smart watch and Wi-Fi. And you'd like to chat with someone.

ping-me will supply such ability: from the watch, use Surfify (or Safari hidden browser (from iMessages)) to browse to some basic web-site, and ping your buddy along with your geo-location.

Now your buddy can text you using WhatsApp - in which answering is possible.

Usage

• Download latest Chrome driver from

  https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/ -->

  https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/136.0.7103.49/win64/chromedriver-win64.zip

• ngrok http 8080

• Browse to this url - like https://abcd-12-345-678-90.ngrok-free.app/ - in the iWatch

• Run

chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222 --user-data-dir="c:\repos\selenium\ChromeProfile"

• open it to a linked WhatsApp web instance https://web.whatsapp.com/

• non default recipient should be pinned at WhatsApp, otherwise it won't be found during run-time

• Remember the chosen password (application.properties). Defaulted to 1234

• mvn spring-boot:run -Dspring-boot.run.arguments=--recipient.target=Elvis

• ./gradlew bootRun

• Browse to http://localhost:8080/index.html just to make sure utility is up and running

• On Windows > Control-Panel > System > Power & Batter make sure your device won't sleep/ hiberante after X hours

• chrome://settings/performance > add web.whatsapp.com to the 'Always keep these sites active' list

TODO

• html text field for the recipient (empty for the server config). For that on WhatsApp web, focus on the favorites list

• Cloud

• WebSocket

• Open Chat like https://matrix.org/

Disclaimer

Recently WhatsApp released an app for iWatch >> Ping-me looks to be irrelevant. A user can send a message from his watch while his iPhone his far.

Bonus

Emoji dictionary, see https://shahart.github.io/ping-me/emojies.html. Thanks to Issue #3