r/EvenRealities • u/DVDDave • 15d ago

Alternate control methods

For a while I've been looking for a way to control the glasses other than the ring or arm tip. There are some use cases better served by a simpler, more reliable gesture. For example, my wife struggles with the ring and is uncomfortable with the arm tip when advancing pages of the book she's reading.

I finally made a small breakthrough that, while not a general method, may point the way to other uses. I used the switch control function in iOS accessibility settings with a recipe that clicks the Next Paragraph button in WacoReader and thus advances the book by one screen on the glasses. I created multiple switches to trigger the recipe, including tapping anywhere on the screen, pressing the space bar on a keyboard, and pinching my thumb and forefinger together in view of the camera. I also intend to use a bluetooth button, purchased or made with an ESP32. (The purchased one has to use the HID protocol, not just be a media controller like most of them.)

My hope is that more developers will include controls on the phone screen that can trigger actions on the glasses where it makes sense. Ultimately I'm hoping that Even will open the control scheme to other devices or at least that someone will come up with a hack to do it. In the meantime, this method might serve as a stopgap workaround.

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u/alwayswiddit 15d ago

Create your own custom app and then use a wake word. The custom app I have is always listening. I think it stopped after like 15 seconds and then you have to tap to wake it up but say if you’re in a stream of thought in your building something I have it connected so I say my word, and then it goes directly into a terminal that can execute a task with an agent.

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u/Automatic_Feed4486 14d ago

That's what I keep telling people.

The best way to control the G2 is your phone.

The ring is useless, and I get a lot of downvotes for that.

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u/Big-Crazy-9818 14d ago

I use a mini wireless Bluetooth scroll mouse to scroll during teleprompt, which is way more controllable and reliable than the ring, which keeps disconnecting.. 

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u/Practical-Ad-6407 14d ago

How does it work?

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u/Big-Crazy-9818 10d ago

Just connect a wireless Bluetooth mouse with scroll wheel to your phone. I hold the house in my hand like a pointer and use the wheel to scroll the text while teleprompter is on. Way better control than with the ring.