Обзор смарт часов pebble smartwatch

Как выглядят часы? Удобно ли ими пользоваться?

В продаже доступны образцы Cherry Red (c красным корпусом), Jet Black (черные), Artistic White (белые), а также оранжевые и серые. Выглядят часы стильно и молодежно. Расцветку можно подобрать на любой вкус, есть и яркие девайсы, и незыблемая классика. Защищает экран глянцевое покрытие, которое придает дополнительный шарм. В комплекте идет силиконовый браслет в черном цвете (для всех часов, кроме Artistic White, там прилагается белый). Ремешок удобный, подходит для любого объема запястья, мягкий и приятный на ощупь.

Корпус устройства прямоугольный, на его левой грани – кнопка назад, на правой размещены клавиши ОК, вверх, вниз. Нажимаются с усилием, поэтому случайно зацепить не получится.

Основные функции часов и особенности

Чем же может похвастаться эта модель? Вот 4 самые главные функции, свойственные смарт часам Pebble.

Фирменная прошивка не придется по душе русскоязычному населению, так как кириллицу умные часы Pebble не распознают. Текст на ней будет отображен в виде прямоугольников или знаков вопроса. При желании можно поискать неофициальные прошивки в интернете, уже созданы форумы с обсуждениями как русифицировать этот гаджет. Но на все нужно тратить время, а это существенный недостаток.

Теперь по поводу автономной работы. Здесь Pebble Smart Watch – рекордсмен, выдерживает 5-7 дней, в зависимости от интенсивности использования. Для такого небольшого корпуса это хороший результат, его обеспечивает энергосберегающий экран.

Поддерживается установка дополнительных приложений и программ, которыми расширяется функционал устройства. При помощи утилиты pebble +, например, настраиваются уведомления на смарт часы из любого приложения.

Гаджет водонепроницаем, уровень защиты – 5 атмосфер. Это дает пользователю Pebble Smart Watch возможность без последствий принять душ в часах, вымыть руки или попасть под дождь. Плавать в бассейне или нырять не рекомендуется.

Что дает «электронная бумага»?

Главный недостаток всех смарт часов по мнению их обладателей – непродолжительное время автономной работы. Неудобно каждый день заряжать устройство, один раз забыл, и целый день нет возможности пользоваться. Разработчики умных часов Pebble нашли выход из ситуации посредством использования технологии «электронная бумага». Такой экран потребляет меньше энергии, а так как он целый день включен, это ключевой критерий. Аналогичная технология применяется в электронных книгах.

Разрешение дисплея 144×168 пикселей, есть автоматическое включение LED-подсветки при навигации по меню. Экран не сенсорный, что непривычно, но никакого дискомфорта это не доставляет – меню примитивное и интуитивно понятное, управление осуществляется с помощью кнопок.

Why Rebble Web Services?

The Pebble watch is called a smartwatch. That’s because it’s smarter than a normal watch. Part of that intelligence is incorporated into the watch, and part of it is being delivered through web services. Originally, these web services were provided by Pebble Technology, Corp. However, Pebble Technology, Corp. halted operation, and after some time these web services have disappeared as well. That made the Pebble watch a lot dumber. Not as dumb as a normal watch, but things that were possible before, aren’t possible any more. Time to ditch your Pebble? No, because…

Enter Rebble! The Rebble Alliance has created Rebble Web Services, to fill in the void left by the disappearance of Pebble Technology, Corp. Most of the services that have disappeared, have replacements now. There’s however one thing The Rebble Alliance cannot do: change every Pebble so it will use the Rebble Web Services. This needs some action by the user. No need to worry, we’ll help you step by step! Read on…

Squeezing the most out of your Pebble

Hi there! It’s Will here (some of you may know me as @Will0 on Discord). In the ~6 months since our last blog post a lot has happened, both in the Pebbleverse and the real world. Yet, despite the ever-increasing gap between the Pebble shutdown and today, still new people are signing up with Rebble to bring their beloved smartwatch back to life!

On that note, there have been a number of similar questions over the last few months on Reddit and the Rebble Discord, such as ‘why do I need to use RWS’, ‘I’m struggling to get setup’, ‘What are the best apps to use in 2020?’.

In this post we’ll go over the answer to all of these, as well as cover how you can squeeze the most out of your Pebble in 2020.

Appy New Year!

Hi again! It’s a new year,
in an old house, with more technology I’ll never
understand. But amidst all
the chaos of the seasons changing, AWS being unfathomable to me, and Alexx
Reed being about 50% smarter of a lyricist than I’ll ever understand all the
references to, I have exciting news, and that is: for the first time in over
a year, there is a brand new app for Pebbles in a Pebble app store!

If you’ve been following along on Reddit or on Discord (shoutouts to our
loyal fans!), you might have heard that
Wowfunhappy
has recently written an RSS reader app for Pebble. This is really cool in a
lot of ways – he did a bang-up job on the UI for it, and people on Reddit
are already finding great uses for it, enabling things that they weren’t
previously able to do on their Pebbles (like check work schedules that came
as RSS feeds). And, of course, he released it entirely as open source
software, which
definitely speaks to me.

The fact that it’s a cool project I think is a great reason to highlight it
here. But the reason I wanted to tell you about this is that this also
marks a milestone of the first time we’ve added a new app to the Rebble App
Store since the very first time we imported the Pebble App Store’s
contents. I spent a few hours last week working with Jonathan to get this
all set up, and I’m pleased to announce that the Rebble App Store is
(mostly) open for submissions! Here’s some directions for how to do
that,
if you’ve got some Pebble apps burning a hole in your hard disk, or if
you’re ready for the creative juices to start flowing. The process is a
little janky right now, but I’m definitely happy to help however I can –
and there are lots of us in #app-dev on Discord ready to answer questions!

It’s a new day in Pebble app development. Let’s see what you’ve got –
here’s wishing all of us Rebblers an appy new year!

Common issues

Cannot add watchface, store says its added, but it’s not on the phone of watch

Sometimes, the locker can get out of sync with reality. Although this situation should resolve itself over time, it’s easy to fix. Simply sideload the watchface (see above). The locker now is no longer out of sync for this watchface. You might have to repeat this for every watchface or app that shows this behaviour.

On Android (9.0+), incoming calls are displayed on the watch as “Unknown caller”

In order to fix “Unknown caller” or altogether missing notifications on incoming calls for Pebble paired with Android 9.0 devices, there is a workaround with Dialer for Pebble app:

• Install Dialer for Pebble companion app and a respective App for Pebble.
• Open the Pebble app on your phone, and go to Notifications. Then disable notifications for Phone Calls.
• Open the Dialer for Pebble app on your phone, and enable Call Popup for Incoming and Outgoing calls.
• Make sure Dialer for Pebble app has system permissions to access Contacts, Call Log, Dialer and SMS on your phone.

This should fix the issue. In case if Dialer for Pebble works inconsistently, make sure it runs in background both on your Pebble (Settings and then Background App) and on your phone.

Check your Rebble account and payment info.

• Head to Rebble account
• Look at the line Voice / Weather subscription. If it’s Active, go through boot.rebble.io again.
• If it’s expired, the credit card used while subscribing might be invalid. You can simply subscribe again.
• If it’s not active, you might be signed in with a different account than when you first subscribed. Delete the cookies from your browser (thus signing out), and sign in at Rebble account with the right account. Then, check your account and payment info again.

This watchface doesn’t show weather info any more, or the info is wrong

Unfortunately, some often used weather services have folded, or changed their API. Watchfaces using those APIs now can’t fetch their weather info any more. See if the watchface can switch API, or choose another watchface. Please note that this is unrelated to the Rebble Weather and Dictation services plan.

Dictation doesn’t work: “Error occurred. Try again.”

Open the Pebble app on your phone, and go to Settings. Tap Voice Language. Change it to any other language. Then, change it back to your preferred language.

I need to switch accounts, or I removed and reinstalled the Pebble app

To sign out from the Rebble website, you have to remove cookies (for .rebble.io and auth.rebble.io) from your browser. How to do that, depends on the browser. Now head to Rebble auth and sign in with the right account.

To configure the Pebble app to use the account you just signed in to, go through boot.rebble.io again.

Events from my calendars don’t show up in Timeline or Quick View

Open the Pebble app on your phone, and go to Apps. Tap the gear next to Calendar. Here, you can choose the calendars from which events will appear in your timeline.

When I start charging my watch, the screen starts flashing the backlight on and off

While connected to the charging cable, press and hold any button on the watch, until an error code appears on the screen. Release the button. Now, let the watch charge for some time (at least an hour). Finally, press a button to exit the error code.