This weekend I had my first success getting the Sony LiveView to do anything other than switch on and show "00:00". Ever since I bought the LiveView in early 2012, I've been checking in on the progress of various groups that have been trying to hack it.

The LiveView was an appealing gadget to tinker with. Nearing it's retirement many sites were selling it cheap, for example I picked mine up for just £12 from play.com.

With a little help from a python script written by Andrew de Quincey, I managed to get the watch running. I was able to control the LED, feedback button presses, and send message and menu data. I still haven't managed to get images to send, but it's only a matter of time.

The LiveView is notorious for it's inability to maintain a stable Bluetooth connection, so its use is likely to be limited. That said, I would still like to see if I can get the watch to talk to my Arduino board, and use it for some basic controls in the shed.

If other people's attempts are anything to go on, this thing will likely end up back in the draw, but I'm an optimistic chap, so who knows.

I'll be publishing my progress, good or bad. If I'm able to develop anything useful I'll put it up on GitHub, so other people can carry it a little further.