I love the new watch and feel right at home with it - I guess it's really extensible customisation and the nerdy touches that do it for me.

Also, I'm finally back to a smart watch that only lights up when I need it to! The mechanism is a little odd - shake your wrist to make it light up - but any other smart watch has given me a high rate of false positives (lighting up in the middle of the night when turning around, NOT lighting up when I check the time early morning).

#Pebble #Pebble2Duo

There's an SDK available to write your own (https://developer.rebble.io/sdk/), which is also provided via GitHub CodeSpaces if you don't want to run it locally.

Programming is done either in C (for full access to all watch features) or in JavaScript (for watchfaces, with limited access to watch features): https://developer.rebble.io/tutorials/js-watchface-tutorial/part1/

Lastly, the watch's operating system, PebbleOS, is open source, too: https://github.com/coredevices/pebbleos

#Pebble #PebbldSDK #PebbleOS #Pebble2Duo

While the Android app is still a little buggy, it's usable and has access to all Pebble watch faces and apps ever created.

The vibration notification is configurable and can be non-intrusive. The display is quite small, but emails, and text messages are displayed clearly and are readable.

The famous "Dick Tracey" feature is included, too - speak into your watch to respond to texts and emails. Voice recognition either runs on the smartphone or uses a cloud service.

#pebble #Pebble2Duo

Learned a neat trick today. I needed a larger font size for Pebble Time 2, but the build kept complaining "codepoint 9647 glyph too large" even though I don't use that glyph, font is defined with `"characterRegex": "[0-9:]"`

So I created a subset of the font with symbols I actually use
```
pyftsubset "resources/fonts/LECO 1976 Regular.ttf" --unicodes="U+0030-0039,U+003A" --output-file="resources/fonts/LECO_numbers_only.ttf"
```
and bingo - it works.

#pebble #pebble2 #pebble2duo #pebbletime2