Amazfit Verge lite is not recognized

[Antonio M]

I got a brand new Verge (a smartwatch by Amazfit) and when I connect to my
laptop device is not recognized, i.e it is not included in lsusb comamnd.
Is ot too new??
Antonio Montagnani

Linux Fedora 30 Workstation
da/from Gmail

[Roger Heflin]

Every device should show up in lsusb, it may not have the proper name
attached to it.

So remove the watch do an lsusb and note what you see, then connect
the watch and do a lsusb.

If you don't see any new devices at all there is some sort of USB
physical issue (bad cable, bad port, port in watch turned off).

Once you can see it in lsusb (with or without a name) then you would
need an application to support it (understands its format, and how to
talk with the device), and every similar device made by almost every
company seems to be non-standard for the most part, so there really is
no generic support for said devices usually. Keyboards/mice, serial
ports, uvc-std webams, and storage are standard, say high-end SLR-type
cameras are not and vary widely enough that the tools that support
them seem to be customized to support specific models and features
supported per-model vary widely.  This is especially true if there is
no generic governing standard for a given device.  Webcams were a mess
until the UVC standard and support came along.   My ancient polar
watch uses a KVM windows install passing its usb device thru so that I
can run the vendors standard windows software to support its usb
communication device.

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:22 PM Antonio M  wrote:
> I got a brand new Verge (a smartwatch by Amazfit) and when I connect to my laptop device is not recognized, i.e it is not included in lsusb comamnd. Is ot too new??
> Antonio Montagnani
>
> Linux Fedora 30 Workstation
> da/from Gmail
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[Samuel Sieb]

On 8/30/19 2:19 PM, Antonio M wrote:
> I got a brand new Verge (a smartwatch by Amazfit) and when I connect to 
> my laptop device is not recognized, i.e it is not included in lsusb 
> comamnd. Is ot too new??

My understanding is that most smartwatches only use the USB for 
charging.  Everything else is over bluetooth.