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Asteroid

Build script for AsteroidOS, an open-source operating system for smartwatches

From AsteroidOS·Updated June 17, 2026·View on GitHub·

[AsteroidOS](http://asteroidos.org) is a free and open-source smartwatch platform based on OpenEmbedded, libhybris and Qt5. The project is written primarily in Shell, distributed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 license, first published in 2015. It has gained significant community traction with 1,034 stars and 81 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: asteroidos, hacktoberfest, linux, smartwatch, yocto.

AsteroidOS build system

AsteroidOS is a free and open-source smartwatch platform based on OpenEmbedded, libhybris and Qt5.

You can fully build a flashable image from source with the following commands, but be careful it will take several hours:

. ./prepare-build.sh <your machine id, e.g., dory>
bitbake asteroid-image

For more information report to the documentation.

Stay tuned about the project on Matrix and Twitter.

Report any problem on the project's issues tracker.

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