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Re: Pebble Production: February Update

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Post by Lutzb »

justapassenger wrote: post #98
LeifCarrotson wrote: post #93

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I've been a Garmin user for 14 years and I wish someone would take the GPS, heart rate, and IMU sensors out of my Fenix and put it in an open-source product. But GPS is really hard to get right, especially if you want weeks of battery life. Garmin have been a decent company (in the ethical/moral sense) to be a customer of for many years, but I think they're slowly losing that reputation. Yes, my 2018 hardware still d…

Watches are now roughly in the same spot as phones - form factory is largely complete and each new version is a small iteration over previous generation, with changes that most people don’t care about. That being said - feature I LOVE added recently-ish that made really happy I’ve upgraded my many years old garmin was a flashlight (proper one, not screen brightness). It seemed like a gimmick but it’s now one of most…

Fully agree, the led flashlight is ridicously useful.

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

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Post by stavros »

justanotherunit wrote: post #134
stavros wrote: post #131

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And now it can even make private (and public!) dynamic websites that have access to data from your database, while exposing only the data you want exposed. I'm really liking it, I created a page to show my favorite restaurants per city, for example: https://stavrobot.home.stavros.io/pages/restaurants That's dynamic, loading from the database, and updating live when the assistant creates new entries. This page was cre…

Fascinating, thanks for responding. If k may ask, what is your monthly (or any other interval) token usage? And are you finding a pi to be a bottleneck in regards of any performance?

You mean with the bot, or with developing the bot? The bot's token usage is fairly small, but it's only a few days old so I don't know. Pi hasn't been a bottleneck that I can see, my bot is much faster than OpenClaw was when I tried it.

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

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Post by jolmg »

poisonborz wrote: post #72

So the Pebble Duo was a one time thing based on the cache of old parts they found? Why... A lot of people would like a cheap small thin plastic watch. Most fans went after Amazfit Blips after Pebble went out for a reason.

> So the Pebble Duo was a one time thing

The Time 2 too:

> Both are available in limited quantities, with worldwide shipping. Prices are in USD. Pre-ordering is the only way to get one --- https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watch...

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

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Post by jolmg »

usrnm wrote: post #40
saidinesh5 wrote: post #26

> 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.

How hot is hot, though? Boiling hot or taking it to a hot shower?

> taking it to a hot shower?

Friendly reminder that they're water-resistant not water-proof... Soap decreases surface tension and might enable the water to enter through the microphone or speaker hole. Might also be susceptible to steam entering and condensing inside.

IDK if there are any watches where the vendor promises their being vapor-tight.

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

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Post by gessha »

tanin wrote: post #96

Is there a watch that looks like Pebble or Garmin Venu (e.g. small and square) that is good for navigation? I want to walk and look at the watch to see which direction to go next. It would be great for traveling in a foreign city.

The Apple Watch has an interesting vibration-based navigation. Assume you’re going straight and if it vibrates you have to turn left or right. Additionally, it has specific vibration patterns for left and right so you don’t have to look at the watch at all. I use it while driving to remind me to pay attention to turn instructions or exits.

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

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Post by petemir »

shikshake wrote: post #117
creinhardt wrote: post #114

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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-...

My Garmin syncs its data to Apple Health. I don't see why Pebble wouldn't be able to do it. My understanding of the post is that it mostly refers to internal iOS APIs that are not available to third parties (e.g. actionable notifications).

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

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Post by dnlzro »

shikshake wrote: post #117
creinhardt wrote: post #114

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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-...

That’s not true. There’s an API to read from and write to Apple Health: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/healthkit

I’m not sure if that’s something the Pebble app uses right now, but it’s certainly possible, and a third-party app could make it happen as well.

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

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Post by folmar »

bronlund wrote: post #35
rozenmd wrote: post #5

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You can't get a hackable watch for a fraction of the price, though. I'd pay more for being able to fumble about in the codebase and add exactly what I want.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007059416132.html

_This item does not exist_

Please post the item title, aliexpress links tend to be short-lived

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

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Post by Markoff »

looks nice, I am wearing Amazfit Bip for like 8+ years, now on my third one (1st usual issue whole body popped up, 2nd got swollen battery after damaged glass and being exposed to water), the only problem I have with these Pebble watches - they are way too expensive compared to original Amazfit Bip years ago (which I can still buy used for like 15-20EUR and charge it once a month) and their battery life seems to be worse than years old Amazfit Bip

I don't care about the apps, only thing I need are notifications from phone (calendar event reminders, alarm, incoming call, messages), sleep tracking is unnecessary bonus

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

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Post by [deleted] »

jsheard wrote: post #23
drum55 wrote: post #21

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I haven't really heard it being used like that, always heard e-paper being used as the specific e-ink displays and never anything else. The only time I've seen the (in my mind) confused messaging is on Pebble's own website, I still have my original Pebble Time somewhere, and that's a good part just down to how much I love those displays. I don't think I'd have used one for years if they were epaper.

> The only time I've seen the (in my mind) confused messaging is on Pebble's own website Yeah, other wearable manufacturers who use the same display technology usually call it MIP instead. Pebble are pretty much the only ones who call it e-paper, which has led some to think theirs is a distinct thing, but it's just MIP.

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