Any specs about Pebble 2 battery capacity ?
Their site lists a time in days, but not the actual battery specs that I can see.
30 days for the Time 2 will be pretty impressive if they can pull it off, though.
Pebble Production: February Update
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Re: Pebble Production: February Update
#122I wish someone would take all the Fitness sensors of the Apple Watch, and put it in something with a simple e-ink display like these Pebble devices. I don’t care about apps, I just want a thing that measures my heart rate, notifies me if I get a call or text, has more than a couple days of battery life, and that’s it.
If battery life really is high up your list, look up Amazfit. The Bip 6 can last up to a month as a dumb watch health tracker. It's got some decent watchfaces too. Another Amazfit product that's popular is their Helio Strap, essentially a Whoop band rip off that does not require a monthly subscription but works just as well.
Re: Pebble Production: February Update
#123I'm curious, what sets it apart from other watches? The design look nice
The e-ink display is the killer feature. Week-long battery life and always-on readable display even in direct sunlight. Every other smartwatch is a tiny phone screen that dies in a day. Pebble chose the opposite trade-off: less flashy but actually useful as a watch. The open SDK and hackable firmware are the other half - you can write watchfaces and apps in C, which attracted a dev community that most wearables never…
It's e-paper, not e-ink.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Basically! Is heart rate recorded to a Pebble specific app, or can it be synced with things like Apple Health? I guess the one other feature I like of the Apple Watch is the rings/daily fitness goals functionality. I'll have to look into the Pebble more to see if that's possible. I also like the background monitoring features the Watch has (hypertension, etc.), but I'm assuming that's a little too much for the Pebble…
I believe you can see that stuff on the Pebble app but you can't sync with Apple health. See this previous pebble blog post: https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-...
The Pebble 2 could write data to Apple Health ten years ago. It would be surprising to have that missing now.
Re: Pebble Production: February Update
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since this is hacker news, I'll point out that you can use a solvent to remove the card part of a credit card leaving only the chip plus antenna. Then embed in a new housing of your own design.
Ya, and then attach it to the back of your watch...
Yeah, Hornady makes a nice rubber thingy that you can slide onto a watch band with their RFID tag inside, but it's easy to swap it with a t5577 or whatever
Re: Pebble Production: February Update
#126I wish someone would take all the Fitness sensors of the Apple Watch, and put it in something with a simple e-ink display like these Pebble devices. I don’t care about apps, I just want a thing that measures my heart rate, notifies me if I get a call or text, has more than a couple days of battery life, and that’s it.
Exactly, why does nobody think about this!
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
it is possible to call a Uber with a pebble watch?
I don't know, was saying it generally like Apple watch seems to be an extension of the iPhone
Not sure if it's still a thing but I remember being able to call Uber with my Apple Watch (cellular version) in 2017 when my phone died.
Re: Pebble Production: February Update
#128> Also, don’t expose it to hot water (this could weaken the waterproof seals), or high pressure water. It’s not invincible. Aahhh. Finally the mystery of how my old pebble died is solved. Hopefully . One fine morning, the display came off. It was supposed to be waterproof and there was no puffed up battery either.
Glue and seals weaken with exposure to temperature extremes in both directions. I found this out the hard way too. I spent all day out in below freezing temps, when I got back to my hotel room and my smartband (not pebble) started to warm up, the screen just fell off. Everything still worked and the screen was lit up. Fortunately I discovered it before I ripped the screen off on something. When I got home I was able…
Glue and seals weaken with exposure to temperature extremes in both directions. I found this out the hard way too.
Yeah, the stuff everyone uses in consumer electronics is crap.
I learned a lot about this after I got a used boat and started working on it myself. I wish manufacturers would take a page from the marine industry and use better quality materials like Stainless 316 for metal frames and fasteners (much more rust-resistant than common 304 Stainless), Santoprene for gaskets (a UV-resistant EDPM blend with a working temperature from -81°F to 275°F / -60°C to 135°C), higher quality adhesives, etc. I noticed SCUBA (diving) and SCBA (firefighting) hardware tends to be built somewhat better (though still not perfect), presumably because it's life-safety. And NASA and others pioneered incredible materials and assembly methods for aviation and spaceflight back in the day. We have the means to build for longevity, it just costs 3X+.
Don't even get me started about commodity vulcanized rubber coatings that become a sticky mess after a few years.
Re: Pebble Production: February Update
#129> Many old Pebble apps/faces use weather APIs that no longer work (Yahoo, OpenWeather). The Pebble mobile app now catches these network requests and returns data from Open-Meteo - keeping old watchfaces working! That's some sweet quality of life fixes!
And we are very determined to keep the Open-Meteo weather API open-access indefinitely and don’t share the same fate as many closed-source APIs like Yahoo or OpenWeatherMap.
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#130Weren’t foreign nations gonna pay the tariffs? What is this with requiring each customer to pay $10 per watch?
It’s funny how these very tariffs were introduced to “combat inflation” end up increasing it by an order of magnitude.