[Wear OS General] drhkp:
iPhone 6 plus and Moto 360 - Sharing my experience

Hi everyone,

I've been following this thread for a while now and I finally bit the bullet yesterday and went out and got myself a Moto 360 (with a silver metal link chain which is cheap-ish now 149$ US without taxes :p)

Anyways, I thought I might post my experience here.

Disclaimer!!: I am just a user and not a developer and so will not be able to answer super complex questions. This is a run down of how I got the Moto 360 and my iPhone 6 plus to (kinda) work with each other. (So, its not written like a tutorial rather an experience) Also, I may digress a lot during the course of writing this so please bear with me!

Background:

iPhone 6 plus - running iOS 9.0 Public Beta 3 (this made this more complicated - more details below)

Moto 360 - now updated to version 5.1.1

Android Device for initial setup - Android X86 (guest) running on VMware VirtualBox on Windows 10 (host) (its a pain to get this working and took me the longest time to sort out especially since I was using the inbuilt Intel Bluetooth and VMware refused to recognize it- drove me :mad: so if you have some sort of access to an Android Device I would highly recommend you use that)

Apps installed:

Android side:

Android Wear

Aerlink

iPhone side:

Aerlink

(I did not use BLE utility at all - since the BLE utility app crashes on iOS 9 Public Beta)

Steps:

1. Unboxed the Moto 360 and charged it to a 100%. This step required patience - the pairing will work for those who wait. This is important because each software update requires the Moto to have at least 80% battery power.

2. Installed the Android Wear app on my android VM in the meanwhile.

3. Once my 360 was charged, I paired and connected it to my android VM using the Android Wear app phone-side.

4. Now I played around with the watch till firmware updates downloaded to the watch. To see its progress one can go to Settings - About - System Updates and here see the progress of the download.

5. The update process for me had to run two times - I'm assuming my Moto 360 was pretty outdated and needed multiple iterations of firmware updates.

6. After each time of the update installing, the device restarts and 'optimizes' updates so this process can take up to 20 mins for the both of them together.

7. After all the updates are installed I verified if the Android version installed is 5.1.1 on the Moto 360

8. Next I installed Aerlink from the play store onto the Android and also Aerlink from the AppStore onto my iPhone (this step requires purchase on the iPhone side, I had no other option since BLE utility doesn't work for me and I wanted to support the developer anyways, it only costs 2$ - less than a Grande from Starbucks).

9. Once both those steps are done, the watch (if it has been updated to the right version) should have the aerlink app on it. I opened up this app and turned on iOS notifications. You can also turn on the battery info if you need it.

10. I opened up the Aerlink app on the iPhone side and then waited. A pairing request popped up on my Moto 360 . Punched in the numbers and done!

11. I then shut down the android VM, and my iPhone remained paired with my Moto 360. The iPhone shows up as Aerlink on the Moto 360 and not necessarily 'iPhone' or 'Tubby's iPhone' or whatever the iPhone's bluetooth name is.

I paired it last night at around 10 pm or so and its connected and I'm receiving notifications as of now which is around 8:30 AM here, so no dropped connections that I noticed.

Again this is just the steps that worked for me and not necessarily a tutorial. Just thought if anyone was stupid like me to install the iOS 9 public beta and BLE utility didn't work for them anymore, this would give them some hope!

Kudos and Best of Luck to those who try it out!