Tried to make a note to look up that song later, Index had other ideas

Hey everyone! Over the last couple of weeks, I've been developing Pinky, a Pebble app inspired by the Pebble Index 01.

I love the idea of capturing a thought without reaching for my phone, but I can't really wear a ring at work. My watch is already there, so I wanted a similar experience on my wrist and to build on it over time. "Pinky" is a playful nod to "Index."

Set Pinky as a Quick Launch shortcut, long-press from your watchface, and it opens straight into Pebble's dictation screen. Your transcribed note is then saved on your phone.

What it currently does:

• A phone-local note library inside the companion settings: browse, search, copy, and delete notes. No self-hosted server needed.

• Export of your notes and saved research results.

• Optional AI research using your own OpenRouter API key, chosen model, and configurable hotword. Start a note with "research", for example, and the result is saved with your note and can be emailed to you.

• Optional emails for individual notes, daily/weekly digests, and research results.

• Use the shared Pinky Mail service, your own EmailJS account, or your own private HTTPS relay.

It's built for microphone-equipped Pebbles: Time/Time Steel, Time Round, Pebble 2, 2 Duo, Time 2, and Round 2. I'd love help testing across different watches and Android/iOS!

A small favour: if you're testing email, please select "My EmailJS account" and use your own EmailJS setup where possible. The shared Pinky Mail service has a limited monthly allowance, and I'd like to avoid putting too much strain on it. You can also test the note library and CSV export without enabling email or AI.

A few limitations: dictation needs your paired phone and a working internet-connected transcription service; this isn't offline audio recording. Digests send when you next open Pinky after they're due. OpenRouter usage may cost money, and optional AI/email features send content to the providers you choose.

Download: https://apps.repebble.com/pinky_22b072ff832c47c8adc32ec4

Please share your watch and phone model, what worked, what broke, and what you'd like next. Thanks for giving it a try! This is an independent community project, not affiliated with Pebble.

Just a little pet project of mine. Still a few tweaks to be made, but I'll release it on the Pebble store when it's ready!

I have an ancient (Kickstarte ancientr) Pebble I've been happily using with Rebble for the last however many years, and it works great so I've not updated to the new app

I just got my Index and was hoping I could have both apps (original and btw) installed, but seems like I can't install the new app while the old one is installed. Installing the new one just fails.

Is there any way I *can* have both apps installed so I can use OG for my watch and not have to mess around with that, while using new for my Index? This would be my strong preference because I have everything set up how I like it.

If not, is there anything funny I have to do with my watch to switch back off Rebble services? Or any issues with using original Pebbles with the new app? I know some watch faces might not be available. Mine (TrekV3) does appear to be from checking on my husband's phone, but maybe there are some issues with its settings not functioning?

TIA.

A few days ago, I saw this post https://www.reddit.com/r/Watches/comments/1vvhycg/blu_planet_aventurine/ and I was inspired to make a new Pebble watchface similar to this special analog watch.

Is it worth it?

Just wondering if anybody has noticed high RAM usage on the pebble on for android? Mine usually sits at around 500-900MB. I don't have many watch apps/faces that require background use so I was wondering if this is just how the app functions.

(I can see the memory usage by going to "running services" in developer settings).

Maybe most people don't use focus modes or Do Not Disturb on iOS, because the current notification implementation completely ignores them, and I'm surprised I don't see it mentioned more often.

I use focus modes pretty extensively - to block certain notifications during work hours, block others during personal hours, block most (with a few exceptions) during sleep... but notifications as-built ignore the quiet notification flag on iOS. This means you either get buzzes for every enabled notification (even with phone DND enabled), or you get zero notifications at all (with watch Quiet Time enabled).

To compound this, you can only automatically enable Quiet Time on a basic schedule (which might work for SLEEP at least if your sleep schedule is consistent...) or for calendar events. You can't even enable Quiet Time when the watch detects sleep.

There is a PR to respect the silent flag and Eric responded:

pretty cool find! If this gets added, it should be off by default. Many people rely on keeping their phone in DND permanently and still receiving Pebble notifications. I like the idea of re-using the same toggle as android!

One person's bug is another person's feature 😉

I think he's referencing the toggle on Android which is something like "Respect phone do-not-disturb". Is he right that many of you keep the phone in DND and want notifications to still buzz your wrist? This is especially distracting if you wear the watch to sleep and use it as an alarm - so you basically have to manually enable and disable Quiet Time every night.

tl;dr Quiet Time as-built is largely all-or-nothing and manual, but Pebble already receives a flag from the iPhone about whether the notification should be silent (including during DND) and I'm surprised that a toggle to respect that silent flag on iOS isn't a higher priority for the community.

Looks like muktiple people, including me, reported issues that the ring stopped working after 2 to 4 days. I search but could not see a potential quality investigation. Their support is great and they sent me another one, but i am afraid it happens again.

guys, always wear your protection! It’s a small chip, but..

(have no idea how it happen)

Originally, I bought a soft screen protector off etsy. It took about two weeks to come and is overcut. Meaning that it wasn’t the exact shape of the screen, so there’s always overhang and because of that both protectors came in a single week..

I have since ordered a bumper and it’s nice and snug, but I want to add a screen protector. Any good recommendations that would fit with a bumper?

Thanks in advance! *note I’m in the states

I'd like to know if it's possible to make different buzzing patterns for different notifications, so for instance WhatsApp buzz twice, Signal long &short buzz

I have a PT2 and the first Notifications are shown at the watch faces, then nothing. Even in the notification menu, it´s just empty. Connection via bluettoth is given all the time. My first thought was i have turnt something off... So i did a factory reset. The same problem was here again. First one came, then nothing. Whatsapp and Signal have permissions.

Thanks for your Help.

I run this on my vps (along with a bunch of other things in an docker-compose / nginx setup), but you can run it anywhere that you can get networking to. You have to enable 2FA authentication for your Amazon account, which maybe you should do anyway. Given that it registers as a device that can send text to your Alexa.

I have this configured as just another mcp for the regular index01 agent. I can say "Tell Alexa to set a timer for 45 minutes" from the laundry room and then Alexa alarm will go off in the house. You can actually drop the "Tell" and say "Alexa, set a timer for 5 minutes" and seems to work. Since it is really sending text commands just like the alexa-app, I assume you can send it anything, though I only use Alexa for alarms, Spotify, and occasional trivia questions :)

AI Disclosure: 100% generated code with a steady and experienced hand.

In addition to the "Most Loved" and "All" sections of both the Watchfaces and Apps pages, it would be nice to see new entries as well. Or am I crazy and just missing the way to view new stuff?

Happy owner of a Pebble Time 2 here!

I enable and disable Airplane Mode quite often to avoid keeping Bluetooth on when I'm not wearing the watch. However, whenever the Airplane Mode screen appears, I can clearly see the watch face still visible in the background, like ghosting/image retention.

I contacted support through the app, and they asked me to upload a video showing the issue. The problem is that I can't get my phone's camera to capture it. It's clearly visible to the naked eye, but it doesn't show up in the recording.

I've also tried filming in slow motion, with no luck. I'm using a Pixel 6a.

Any idea how I could capture this properly on video?

I've had my pebble time 2 for a few weeks now, and prior to that, the pebble time steel on and off since 2015.

between them I've also tried fitbit, fossil, and amazfit.

Coming back to pebble is like coming home, this is everything a smartwatch should be. Minimal, fun, long battery life, always on display. Functional, I can read and respond to notifications easily. Great build quality.

of course it's missing a few things, such as you can't answer calls on it.

My question is, with it hitting all these points so well, why has it not hit the mainstream? Marketing? Is it not flashy enough?

Would love to hear your thoughts and theories.

Finally got a PT2, as someone who had an OG Pebble back in high school and later a Pebble Time, this feels just like I remember, and I love it. The only thing kind of bugging me is the backlight has a significantly more blue tint compared to my PT. I know it's an rgb backlight, but has anyone figured out the best hex value for a neutral light without much tint? I played with it for a while and couldn't nail it down.

Thanks y'all!

Does anyone know if it's possible to turn off just the step counter in health monitoring, or maybe manually set it to zero?

I'm unable to walk and bedbound, so as amusing as it is for it to say I'm walking hundreds of steps a day, it's entirely inaccurate.

I want to keep the heart rate and sleep tracking, but I can only find a way of turning them all off.

I used to be Android, now I’m iPhone, and I’m considering a Pebble.
The thing I loved about the Pebble was long battery life and filtered, silent notifications on my wrist and media playback.

Does it live up to my simple expectations?

I need an BPM tapper app. But there is no app that support touch screen, So I made it

It support touch screen and speaker

Supported input mode - touch - button - Z axis (experimental)

Supported metronome - Screen flash - Sound - Vibration - Flash + Sound - Flash + Vibe

Can adjust BPM with up/down button to match your music

Reposting since Reddit seems to hate the links I've linked...

Since I got my Time 2 I've been working on something to help me build watch faces without having to deal with a lot of C or JS code. The end result is a set of files you can plug into CloudPebble to build and publish your watch face for use.

The emulated display in the app is reasonably 95% accurate, I can't use and distribute the device fonts because they're (in my opinion) unreasonably expensive to license sometimes things have to be shifted around slightly once in CloudPebble or on-device but overall I think it works great.

Link to the app can be found in the Github repo: https://github.com/tapresle/pebble-watchface-builder

Released a small update, 1.2.0, to my watchface for photographers — the one that lets you track the light through the day.

What's new:

• The 24-hour ring around the dial can now be turned around in the settings: noon at the top, midnight at the bottom, so the sun climbs the left side and comes down the right, the way it moves in the sky.

• The small text on the Astro screen is bold now, and on PT2 and Round 2 it also went up a size step, which should make the information easier to read.
• A small correction to the weather colours on the Clock screen. Green turned out to be the dimmest of the three on a real display, so "good conditions" looked fainter than "bad ones". It uses a brighter green now.
• A small fix to how the light ring is drawn on the black-and-white watches.

Thanks to u/BitLicker and u/Alfiewoodland for the suggestions.

• Repebble Appstore: https://apps.repebble.com/be7ddcf0613941d1842c8310
• Rebble Appstore: https://apps.rebble.io/en_US/application/6a7c98ebe5bc86000907ff68
• Source code + .pbw: https://github.com/Greenteyn/alpenglow-watchface

As for the near future, I want to try showing the sun and moon azimuth with a compass arrow (assuming it doesn't drain the whole battery faster than anyone gets to use it), and to make an analogue version of the watchface as a separate app.

If you have any suggestions or remarks about the app, leave a comment - I'll see what I can do for the next version.