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Pebble’s Original Creator Creates An Open Source $99 Voice Recorder Ring You Can Hack

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/11/repebble-creates-an-open-source-99-voice-recorder-ring-you-can-hack/

Exciting times! I got an email from Core Devices asking me to confirm my shipping address and choose the colour (red/black, of course) that I want for the Pebble Time 2 that I pre-ordered.

Now just have to wait, very impatiently, at least 6 or more weeks for delivery. :-(

#Pebble #PebbleWatch #CoreDevices

#Pebble goes fully #opensource with shipping date set
The announcement follows weeks of tension between #CoreDevices and parts of the #Rebble community. By moving from 95 to 100% opensource, the company has essentially removed itself as a bottleneck. Users can now build, run, and maintain every piece of software needed to operate a Pebble watch. That includes firmware for the watch and mobile apps for Android and iOS. This puts the entire software stack into public hands.
https://gadgetsandwearables.com/2025/11/24/pebble-open-source/

The new Pebble watches now run on 100% open source software (some optional features use closed source blobs). The new mobile apps for iOS and Android will also let you choose your app store "feed," so you're not locked into a single store. https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source #Pebble #Smartwatch #CoreDevices #OpenSource

Oh toll, weist man in einem #Playstore-Review darauf hin, dass man nur 4 Sterne vergibt, weil #Analytics opt-out ist und das opt-out allem Anschein nach ignoriert wird, da die App weiterhin fröhlich mit mindestens 4 Analytics-Drittanbietern quatscht und merkt man weiterhin an, dass das wohl nicht #GDPR-compliant ist, wird das Review von #Google ausgeblendet, weil man politische Äußerungen unterlassen soll.

Auf das Nichtfunktionieren des Analytics-Opt-Out und mögliche Gesetzesverstöße hinzuweisen ist jetzt also politisch?

#pebble #CoreDevices #pebbleApp

Is it possible to self-host #RWS (#rebble web services) or parts of it (#timeline, weather, appstore, voice-to-text)?

#pebble #repebble #CoreDevices

@rebble personal thoughts of Joshua (#rebble board member) https://rebble.io/2025/11/19/some-personal-thoughts-on-this-whole-mess.html

#pebble #rePebble #CoreDevices

Hier ein persönlicher Kommentar von Joshua (Teil des #rebble board), der mich einigermaßen optimistisch stimmt, dass es zuneiner gemeinsamen Lösung kommen kann. https://rebble.io/2025/11/19/some-personal-thoughts-on-this-whole-mess.html

#pebble #rePebble #CoreDevices #pebblewatch

С тревогой наблюдаю за конфликтом между #rebble и #coredevices

Хочется верить, что сообщество вокруг #pebble всё сделает правильно и покажет всем вокруг, как надо делать хорошие и открытые устройства.

https://rebble.io/2025/11/17/core-devices-keeps-stealing-our-work.html

https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-rebble-and-a-path-forward

As the current maintainer of Rebble's developer documentation at https://developer.rebble.io, I've got some thoughts on Eric's recent blogpost, specifically around accusation #3 in the "Their accusations" section. I'll break this section down from my perspective.

Nothing of the sort was agreed upon

It's unfortunate that this is how I find out that Eric's word doesn't actually mean much when it's given to me. Either that, or he's already forgotten about the conversation he and I had in July, where we agreed that we would merge our developer documentation efforts into the same site. As I reported to the Rebble team after that call: "docs site will end up in our fork ultimately, we're agreed that docs should not be split". I'm disappointed that Eric never communicated this change of heart to me directly, but, well, here we are now, I guess.

See the full written agreement that Core Devices has with Rebble towards the bottom. Rebble agreed that Core would host the developer site.

Verbatim, from the screenshot in your own post: "Core will host developer.rePebble.com that is built from an open source repo". I'd love to be pointed to the part of this sentence that says we wouldn't continue to operate our own developer documentation, because I'm certainly not seeing it. What I have seen, however, is a previous draft of the agreement that would have had us redirect developer.rebble.io to developer.repebble.com. Given the change, it seems fair to assume that condition was consciously removed. So, implicitly, by the version of the agreement you've posted, we can continue to maintain and own our own documentation - and I intend to keep doing so, thanks.

I have been maintaining and updating the developer site personally - all open source

So have I. And so have other people from the community.

Having two sources of truth would be confusing for the community

And here's the real kicker. Here's the line that left me seeing nothing but red.

Eric, you know full fucking well that this is the argument that I have been making this entire time. As soon as I saw the rePebble documentation pop up, I was worried that having two copies of the docs (and two different pebble-tools, but that ship has long since sailed) would fracture the developer ecosystem. The whole reason we got on that call was to try to align on this! I made it quite clear during that call that what I wanted to avoid was confusing new developers by having two sites with the mostly-same-but-slightly-different content. And now here you are, twisting my own fucking words against me in an attempt to act like the agreement that we came to together, never even happened in the first place. You'll have to forgive me for finding this behaviour nothing short of abhorrent, deceptive, and outright disrespectful to not only my work, but the work of everyone who's contributed to our copy of the documentation.

If it wasn't painfully clear at this point - yeah, I'm not happy. I'm pretty mad. I feel betrayed, played for a fool, strung along like an idiot. Maybe that's my fault for trusting Eric's word. In any case, I don't think I'll be making that mistake again anytime soon.

#pebble #rebble #coredevices

Why does Pebble even need one single "app store" in the first place? Can they both just commit to making an open platform, like F-Droid with multiple repositories?

#Pebble #Rebble #CoreDevices

Eric von #CoreDevices hat sich geäußert. https://social.tchncs.de/@flxtr/115571872474127126

#pebble #rebble #RebbleCommunity #pebblewatch

@rebble Eric answered https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-rebble-and-a-path-forward #pebble #rebble #CoreDevices

Throwing stones at Pebble: Rebble accuses Core Devices of stealing its work for new Pebble smartwatch services

The Pebble line of smartwatches is back. But in some ways it never really went away… because after Fitbit acquired Pebble in 2016 and stopped making Pebble-branded hardware, an independent team of developers got to work creating an open source software ecosystem that allowed existing watches to continue functioning.

For the past decade, the Rebble project has maintained an app store and […]

#coreDevices #ericMigicovsky #pebble #rebble #rebbleAlliance

Eric Migicovksy is nothing but a complete jerk and douchebag and I hope nobody decides to work with him in any way at all.

I had a personal run in with him very early on in the pre-Beeper days. I was under an NDA and was doing some beta testing and such, and he was seriously a complete asshat of all asshats!

I wouldn't trust this guy for anything and I hope Rebble cuts all ties with him, immediately.

Rebble · Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work

https://rebble.io/2025/11/17/core-devices-keeps-stealing-our-work.html

#Rebble #Pebble #CoreDevices #Beeper #Tech #News #TechNews

Woke up this morning to see this
https://rebble.io/2025/11/17/core-devices-keeps-stealing-our-work.html

From @rebble very disappointed in what is happening. I fully support @rebble and hope they continue with their work with or without #coredevices
#pebblewatch #Pebble