[catfish] Unable to install asteroid-health

[JRDetwiler]

Describe the bug
opkg can't find asteroid-health in the repositories loaded by default in the OS. I bought a TicWatch Pro 2020 off of someone recently, and have been experiencing this on that watch.

To reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. I flashed the watch with the latest nightly build (2025-04-25), "real install".
2. Went through setup, paired it to my phone to sync the time, and corrected the timezone.
3. Established a wifi connection.
4. Ran opkg update && opkg upgrade. No updates found.
5. Ran opkg install asteroid-health.
6. It can't find the package.

Expected behavior
Asteroid Health would be available for this model of watch since it has fitness tracking built in.

Screenshots

root@catfish:~# opkg update && opkg upgrade
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/all/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-all-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/anthias/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-anthias-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/armv7vehf-neon/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-armv7vehf-neon-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/bass/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-bass-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/beluga/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-beluga-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/catfish/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-catfish-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/core2-32/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-core2-32-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/dory/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-dory-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/firefish/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-firefish-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/harmony/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-harmony-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/hoki/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-hoki-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/inharmony/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-inharmony-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/koi/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-koi-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/lenok/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-lenok-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/minnow/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-minnow-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/mooneye/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-mooneye-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/narwhal/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-narwhal-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/nemo/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-nemo-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/pike/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-pike-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/qemux86/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-qemux86-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/ray/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-ray-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/skipjack/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-skipjack-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/smelt/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-smelt-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/sparrow/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-sparrow-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/sprat/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-sprat-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/sturgeon/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-sturgeon-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/swift/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-swift-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/tetra/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-tetra-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/triggerfish/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-triggerfish-0'.
Downloading https://release.asteroidos.org/nightlies/ipk/wren/Packages.gz.
Updated source 'uri-wren-0'.
No packages installed or removed.
root@catfish:~# opkg install asteroid-health
 * opkg_prepare_url_for_install: Couldn't find anything to satisfy 'asteroid-health'.

Device (please complete the following information):

• Watch Codename: catfish (TicWatch Pro 2020)
• AsteroidOS Builddate 2025-04-25
• Version 1.1-nightly

Additional context
I also saw it happening with the prior build too (2025-04-18, I think). However, someone else with either the same model or similar watch managed to get it to work recently as well, which is puzzling: they wrote about it here.

Is it possible that the builds started failing at some point and they managed to catch a copy while it was still in the repos?

[JRDetwiler]

I'll also add that I went to the extent of cloning the asteroid-health repo, building it using the CMake instructions, and manually installing it. It succesfully built and installed, but launched into a white screen, which... makes me think that something's not right. Perhaps those sample instructions aren't in line with how the app is compiled with the build pipeline's recipe, but it does seem to come down to the app not working / building properly right now.

[Spark703]

I have some issue on beluga (oppo watch 41mm). I think its problem with opkg, not your watch.
I cant install qmltester using opkg install asteroid-qmltester from documantation.
If i try run opkg list | grep asteroid i got a lot of apps, like asteroid-calculator, asteroid-settings, asteroid-weather. there are also non-standard applications, for example asteroid-shopper. I installed it and it works well. But there not other apps like asteroid-health, asteroid-map and asteroid-qmltester.
I had problems when I launched opkg update a few days ago, it just downloaded the first (sometimes second) file endlessly. maybe they changed something on the server and accidentally deleted non-standard applications from their repositories?

[JRDetwiler]

Agreed, it's not just asteroid-health, that's just the one I cared about since I primarily wear a watch as a pedometer. Also still seeing the same problem after flashing with the 2025-05-02 build for catfish.

[Spark703]

I check archives and found this:
2025-04-11 there all apps (include asteroid-health)
2025-04-18 there only default apps

So someone install asteroid-health properly (#308 (comment)) 13 april. But now there no many apps in the repositories.

I try download manually .ipk file from archive, but opkg wont install it

 * open_outer: Failed to open package 'asteroid-qmltester_+git0+de2672f6da-r1_armv7vehf-neon.ipk': Unrecognized archive format (errno=84)

if I'm unpacking an archive on pc and try run executable file use invoker --single-instance --type=qtcomponents-qt5 /path/to/qmltester.ipk I got errors too:

invoker: error: Failed to initiate connect on the socket for type qtcomponents-qt5.
invoker: warning: Booster qtcomponents-qt5 is not available. Falling back to generic.
invoker: error: Failed to initiate connect on the socket for type generic.
invoker: warning: Can't try fall back to generic, already using it
invoker: warning: Connection with launcher process is broken. 
invoker: error: Start application /path/to/qmltester.ipk as a binary executable without launcher...
execve: Exec format error

I will try to reconfigure opkg to use archive, but I'm not sure if I can.

[Spark703]

I got it!

How to enable archive with opkg

1. connect watch to pc (adb or ssh)
2. connect watch to internet documentaion
3. cd to opkg configs

cd /etc/opkg

4. create backup of config

cp base-feeds.conf /home/root/opkg-backup

5. change repositories to archive

sed -i 's#nightlies#archive/2025-04-11#g' base-feeds.conf

6. update opkg

opkg update

7. Now you can install community apps:

• health:

opkg install asteroid-health

• map:

opkg install asteroid-map

• qml tester:

opkg install asteroid-qmltester

8. maybe restart the watch? (help me with asteroid-health)

[JRDetwiler]

Thanks for the nice workaround, I was able to install from the archives too.

[JRDetwiler]

However, the step counting isn't working on a catfish (TicWatch Pro 2020), using the 2025-04-11 archive version of asteroid-health. Feels like recent builds could be failing for a reason.