Timeline works for things like calendar items but not for third party pins yet. So once you've gone through the first steps on your smartphone, you can set up notifications from your smartphone as usual, as well as Pebble Health activity and sleep tracking and download apps and watch faces from the Pebble store. More importantly, from what we've seen having set up our Pebble Time Round and used it for a week or so, they've done a goddamn nice job.įirst up, they had to take care of the basics of what a Pebble can do. Sure, it's not perfect but hey, the basic feature set is free and it's built from the same community that made Pebble great in the first place. If you have a Pebble smartwatch, to us this is a no-brainer. Then you're pretty much good to go, using your Pebble app and Pebble watch as normal. And if your Pebble watch disconnected, just re-connect it. Ignore the orange spinning wheel, it's all good. Follow the onscreen instructions and press the red button – you may need to quit and re-open the app on Android or wait 15 seconds on iOS. Then go to this link to switch to Rebble Web Services. You'll be asked whether you want to subscribe to weather and voice dictation – if you do you'll be taken to a page to enter your card details. In that case, you can still use Rebble – you just need to make a new account.Ĭlick 'get started' to, you know… get started. Then go to this link on your smartphone to either create a Rebble account or sign in with your linked Pebble account – remember, if you haven't done this already, it's now too late to link your accounts. You'll need to download the Pebble app, if you haven't already. This is not a scary, geeky process – in fact switching to Rebble is very beginner friendly. If not, just sign up for a Rebble account and start from scratch. If you linked your Pebble and Rebble accounts before the deadline – we did – that means all your apps and watch faces etc remain. There may be some firmware updates issued to make things go over smoothly, but these install automatically. That should mean there's nothing additional to download or install to make the switchover. Now, the service is up and running it is simply a case of clicking a link on the Rebble website from your phone to switch over from Pebble to Rebble services, and it works with existing iOS and Android companion Pebble apps. The hope was to get as many of the services as possible live in time for the Fitbit server shutdown. This included offering an app store, firmware updates and the ability to create mobile apps. In February 2018, Rebble announced Rebble Web Services, its solution to keep core elements of the Pebble ecosystem live. The essential aim was to keep the platform that powered many of its services and features live through the help of Pebble developers and enthusiasts. Rebble was set up around the time that Pebble decided to cease operations. So features like voice recognition support, SMS and email replies, Timeline pins from third-party apps and access to Pebble's app store and forum will now be gone. Your Pebble watch will still work now the servers are shut, but unless you switch to Rebble you will have to wave bye-bye to features that require cloud support, which Fitbit did keep open for longer than it had initially promised. The idea is to try to re-instate features that were lost on 19 July. Rebble was set up by ex-Pebble developers, and Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky is a fan. Rebble is an organisation that's providing free web services and software – there is also a subscription for some features – which will increase what you can do with a Pebble smartwatch now that Fitbit has ditched them. On 19 July Fitbit finally pulled the plug on Pebble features that required cloud support – we're talking app store, dictation, SMS replies and Timeline pins.īut don't cry for Pebble because Rebble is here – and when we say the gap-filling project run by Pebble devs and fans is here, this time we mean we've actually been using it. We're now a few weeks into a post- Pebble world.
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