It was literally the first notification I got after the firmware so I took a photo. Super legible.

This is day one, so please give me your initial impressions, issues, and feedback.

https://apps.repebble.com/simontime_75a3c14b89724bd8b9c42be6

Hey r/pebble. Quick monthly "state of things" from the one-person shop behind Music Boss, Face Boss and Music Time. (Stick around to the end - there's a pile of free codes.)

🆕 The big one: a new Watch App Beta Channel - built into version 4.1 of the phone app (open it → Early Access / Beta card → Learn More). It's where all the fresh Pebble Time 2 & Round 2 work is landing right now, in beta:

• One unified app: on Time 2 & Round 2, Classic and Time are becoming a single Music Boss with every layout built in (including the full-screen album-art look). No more juggling two apps to enjoy different layouts (In beta, PT2/R2).
• Touch controls: on-screen media control overlay, swipe-to-skip, tap to play pause & tons more. Buttons still do everything; touch is additive. The apps will always support buttons.
• Modern UI: Enhanced OG/Retro layout with two new layout styles to choose from and fully customize right on the watch (including full screen or letterboxed album art for the new layouts). Change fonts, size and visibility (always on/off/timed) of text layers. Modern, but still feels familiar.
  

⏭️ Next priority: a phone beta to customize the whole watch app from your phone (the modern UI overhaul is currently fully configurable on the watch in the 2 x Back Button in app menu) - the way the Garmin & Wear OS apps already do.

🖼️ Face Boss: my photo watch face got a full redesign earlier this year: your own photos on your wrist, 4 corner complications, 8 info slots total, weather, battery, health. Out now and compatible with Time 2/Round 2.

⌚ Music Time: the album-art watch face: your current song cover art as your watch face, with colours that shift to match. Corner complications, weather, battery, health too. Out now and compatible with Time 2/Round 2.

Got a Time 2 or Round 2? Come help shape the touch + Modern UI while they're still on the workbench - join the Discord, become a BossBud: https://discord.gg/7cnrGZP98X

🎁🔥 FREE CODES - first come, first served, grab 'em while they're hot! 🔥🎁

Just tap a link on your phone (signed into the Play Store) to redeem. If a link's dead, someone beat you to it - no hard feelings.

Music Boss Deluxe - 60-day all-access pass (Pebble + Wear OS + Garmin, fully unlocked for 60 days):

• https://play.google.com/redeem?code=FJLRSSBUSCAJY96YXB0DU2P
• https://play.google.com/redeem?code=MVLRU6HTU8S5DCFV77MH9JP
• https://play.google.com/redeem?code=N8JUTML1PH7F0UMGVPEZNDK

Face Boss - full unlock, yours to keep:

• https://play.google.com/redeem?code=JRZP84YJ7R2KYV2JQ3VREYV
• https://play.google.com/redeem?code=3K11HRJGVLK2JGJBN1QQ8B3
• https://play.google.com/redeem?code=TZQ3FQC7UQHWZDBS44KUE7Q

Music Time - full unlock, yours to keep:

• https://play.google.com/redeem?code=EH1AU7YQTT7E4BWDCZF5DW2
• https://play.google.com/redeem?code=B89APFD8CMDL48HUGJPDSFC
• https://play.google.com/redeem?code=7Z2SGQN4RKPANKRVXP85P9P

👇 More codes for all three down in the comments - check there if these are already gone!

See you next month with more news!

Just received mine in Prague. Had to test out 2 styles I had in mind. What do you think? I love the contrast with white accessories 😎

Upcoming firmware, usually deployed over a few days...

• Expanded emoji support using Noto Emoji (feel free to PR more pebble-looking emojis!)
• Redesigned speaker volume settings with a preview tone
• Better battery life through fewer background wakeups
• Do Not Disturb and language changes from the phone apply immediately
• Shake-to-light no longer triggers from the watch's own vibration
• Fixed a crash when scrolling past the end of Date & Time settings
• Fixed incoming iOS calls occasionally not being handled correctly
• Fixed sounds being cut off at the end of playback
• Fixed step counts overflowing for very active users
• Added more bugs to fix later

Source: https://ndocs.repebble.com/pebbleos-changelog

I was excited to hear the new Pebble app will work with old Pebbles. I was connecting my old and once beloved Pebble Time but it kept getting the time wrong. I figured there wasn't any information on it so I did a factory reset... and now it appears to be busted. It did pair with my phone (though the number didn't show on the watch screen), but it's saying "getpebble.com/app" with my phone's name even though the app is installed on the phone. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the phone app but nothing changes. Anybody know how to fix this?

Please excuse the noob question, but what are the implications of using Google oAuth to sign in to Pebble when trying to avoid Google?

I bought a deGoogled phone and am trying not to use anything Google on it. I've tried using GitHub sign in, buy idk how to link my GitHub account. What privacy concerns are there if I sign into my Pebble account using Google on this phone?

I made an 8 ball app, it has the classic answers and currently 2 bonus packs, one IT themed and the other pop culture Movies/TV. Plus you can make a custom list with your own answers. Only on the Time 2 right now.

If anyone has ideas for things to add to the existing answer lists or entirely new fun or useful lists me know.

I'm not responsible for you breaking your screen while shaking your watch.

https://apps.repebble.com/e430d969f2ea47d69dddb3b9

Love it's full width on PC, also more filters, oh and dark theme :-)

Im wondering if there is a website to order extra charger dongle or other charging cable to charge PT 2.

Thank you .

The one app that I really missed from Garmin was the Strength Training activity as I used to use it all the time. So I got Claude to recreate something very similar and a website https://pebblestrength.app/ where you can manage your workouts and see your progress. So far it only does automatic rep counting (using the accelerometer) for push-ups but I will add more exercises as I get more data. Visit the website for more information, the app is in both the rebble and repebble stores. It's all open source too.

…people creating their own watchfaces and apps using AI. More power to them!

But could we please either add a filter for them or teach them how to implement settings?

What we see here is just plain horrible.

I've searched to see if anyone else has posted about this, but I often go check out a new app on apps.repebble.com that people post about and click the "ADD TO MY APPS" button... only to find out that it doesn't show up in the app. Then I go to Settings -> General and see that, yet again, my account isn't signed in. So every time, I sign in again, and the apps show up.

What keeps causing my account to be signed out in the Pebble app? Is this happening to others? Is there some timeout period? It's mildly infuriating. Please tell me I'm not the only one this is happening to. If so, I'll put in a bug report.

Even if the timeout option for notifications is on, (I tune it to 15 seconds)

The message don't going away

There something else I could do?

My cousin printed those multi color bumper that has blue, green, gold and silver and it matches perfectly with my BlockSlide watch face.

REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT! This is with speech recognition set to Cloud Only.

Me: Make a note that I took one Tylenol.

Pebble:

• I need to know if I can come in time or not.

• I'm making out, and I took one Tylenol.

• Make a note that I took one time and all.

• You can note that I won Tylenol.

• Make a note that I can go untie or not.

• Make a note that I took one Tylenol.

Sixth try!!! This is pretty representative of my experience. Isn't this the kind of thing that people will use index 01 for?

I find that it works well for "cliche" phrases like "I'm on my way home" or "Can you buy some milk?" but the more novel the sentence, the worse it is at getting it right.

I also tried paying $3 to use Rebble dictation and found it much better than Core's for single-word utterances (for example, adding "Laundry" to a checklist app), but not much better otherwise.

This is all on my original pebble time, so I don't want to be ungrateful since Core is providing this service to me for free. Maybe I'm just spoiled by the excellent dictation in gboard on android. But does anyone else's experience match mine?

Edit: Thanks to a very helpful comment I've been able to listen to the raw recordings. On my pebble time they are very noisy, and very sensitive to movement on my wrist. I've been able to get somewhat better results (still nowhere close to gboard) by 1) making sure the watch doesn't shift on my wrist at all while I'm talking, and 2) speaking right into the microphone hole, lips almost touching plastic, so that my voice is louder compared to the noise. And I do find Rebble's service to be better than Core's, worth the money for how often I use dictation.

Got my Pebble time 2 last month but was waiting for my gadget wraps screen protectors to arrive before I used it.
Feels good to have a pebble on again.

Saved by Gadgetwraps after only three weeks since attaching the glass. Initially, I thought about getting a bumper, but right now, for sure, I will get one. I think I should have ordered a lot of tempered glass.

I still have quite a few Pebbles of various styles working thanks to Rebble. Recently I did a reset on a P2HR but was unable to reconnect to my Pixel 9a despite all the usual techniques. I decided to test it with the new app on my Fire tablet and successfully connected. The question: Shall I drop the old, Rebblized app from my phone and start moving my collection over to the new Pebble app, or would I lose too much of what I still enjoy in my watches that still work?

Is there a way to fix this? Was working fine until today.

Dug up my old 2013 Pebble from storage and after quite a few hoops I managed to get it updated and working with the new Pebble app (got stuck in an update loop until I factory resetted the device. It was able to update afterwards)

Currently charging it to see how the battery holds up. It’s not entirely dead as it charges and holds a charge.

I think it’s pretty cool to see this device working again after 13 years!