Yesterday, Pebble watch software was ~95% open source. Today, it’s 100% open source. You can download, compile and run all the software you need to use your Pebble. We just published the source code for the new Pebble mobile app!
pebble watch now 100% on my consideration list. maybe i will finally get a smartwatch?
what do you guys find it useful for?
- Tasker profiles
- Music Boss to use gesture control and control audiobooks and music
- Tasker Profiles
- Call and text info
- Tasker profiles
- Google map directions
Remind me of the recent source ownership issue? I thought there was a “thanks for all the community work over a decade and we want to participate; oops now we own it” story.
Cool! I’ve been that interested in smartwatches but I’m interested in this!
If the Android app is fully open source, then it should be made available in f-droid
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When you’re right, you’re right
And you? You’re always right.
Ooh… can I print my next smartwatch?
Probably could print the shell and buttons, would be quite difficult to print the wristband, and the screen, PCB, storage and battery would all have to be commodity components. Doable though.
Depends, can you print your own PCBs and microchips?
I finally got my Duo 2, and while my old OG still lasts 3 days on a battery I figured time to give it rest.
So far its been great, except that I can’t connect to gadgetbridge anymore. I uninstalled the Core pebble app and instead popped MicroPebble on my phone due to not exactly liking where Core was heading, so I’m glad they’re finally pivoting.
I grabbed a banglejs a while back for cheap embedded funzies, and it’s really stellar as a hackable companion device that you don’t use much, or at least in fairly passive or niche ways. Espruino is really cool though, and that’s the heart of the project.
I wonder how this compares as a higher-end (maybe only other?) FOSS watch, mostly on the battery/power ratio. I actually don’t know much about the pebble design.
They honestly lost me with the fitness platform they were developing with the hardware they tried launching before they got bought by Fitbit.
I’m too baked into my Apple Watch to use a Pebble today. I don’t have any of my old watches. I would not mind a circular Apple Watch. I loved the Pebble Round.
The founder explains in this blog post about the original failure of pebble, and why pebble shouldn’t have focused on fitness.
They’re coming back as a tool/toy for the enthusiasts who want to tinker.
This is amazing. Very interested in picking one up
Is there a model with GPS and a SIM?
It doesn’t look like it. They had to make compromises on what to include, otherwise they’d end up with smartwatch that’s larger than a phone.
With it being 100% open source, it should be easy* for someone to add these features.
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“We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”
The Programmers’ Credo
