Retrieving the name of wear device

Question

I would like to retrieve the name of the wear device connected, as "Gear Live 02xx".

Can I use the wear API to achieve this?

Using this:

node.getDisplayName();

I receive a String as 4750237895-4553-4343-xxxxxxxxxxxxx.

Answer 1

Why not using bluetooth api? http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/bluetooth.html#QueryingPairedDevices

the API description is not so clear: a human readable description of the node. Sometimes generated from the bluetooth device name

"Sometimes" is not that good explanation... converting your string Hex2ASCII seems like:

GP#xESCC and too far from Gear Live name...

I used this for the convertion: http://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/hex-to-ascii.htm

Answer 2

There is no official API to retrieve the name of the wearable device that is shown when the watch is first booted, such as G WATCH 1234 or MOTO 360 1234.

This may change in the future, but if you want to get a similar name right now, you need to do something like this:

    BluetoothAdapter btAdapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
    String btAddress = "No Bluetooth";
    if (btAdapter != null)
      btAddress = btAdapter.getAddress();

    // Reconstitute the pairing device name from the model and the last 4 digits of the bluetooth MAC
    String wearName;
    if ((btAddress != null) && (!btAddress.equals("No Bluetooth"))) {
        wearName = android.os.Build.MODEL;
        String[] tokens = btAddress.split(":");
        wearName += " " + tokens[4] + tokens[5];
        wearName = wearName.toUpperCase();
    } else {
        wearName = "No Bluetooth";
    }