How to Side Load Firmware on a Pebble
The Pebble watch ships with several system apps. Some of them are visible in Gadgetbridge’s
Application Manager
by default (Music), some need to be activated from within Gadgetbridge’s
Awarding Manager
to practice their work on your Pebble (Health), and others are hidden by default in the
Application Manager
unless “untested features” are enabled (Sport, Golf – run into
Pebble specific settings; they’ll work on your Pebble though when a matching third-party companion app triggers them).
Music
Music
on the
Pebble Fourth dimension Steel
Music
works well with about players – though often only for „basic information“: it displays the currently played track’s interpret, anthology and title (see screenshot), which is updated whenever the track on your Android device changes. This is confirmed at least for the following apps:
- the stock (AOSP) music player
- Cyanogen’s
Apollo - DJD Thespian
- GEM Actor
- Timber
- AntennaPod
But it somehow failed for
Jockey. If your Android device runs Lollipop (Android 5) or later, you might even see a progress bar on your Pebble (confirmed east.one thousand. for
Timber
and
AntennaPod).
With the
Music
watchapp active, yous also tin can control those players via the three buttons on the right side of your Pebble: the upper button skips one championship dorsum, the lower forward. Pressing the centre button (labeled with 3 dots, every bit shown in the screenshot above) reveals a play/intermission button, to burn the action printing information technology again. Long-pressing the upper/lower button volition even let you control the volume (meet second screenshot).
(Notation that on Kitkat using external controls like these can lead to a
full-time wake-lock.)
Health (not for Pebble Archetype and Steel)
To actuate the
Wellness
app, open the „Awarding Managing director“ in Gadgetbridge (2nd icon in the first screenshot below), long-press the „Health“ entry, and select „Actuate“. The app and so volition collect health data on your watch (steps and slumber data), and – provided y’all didn’t conciliate it – Gadgetbridge will sync this data. If yous selected „Pebble Health“ as your preferred activeness tracker, those data will be used on Gadgetbridge’southward „Your activity“ screens:
Context menu and activity screens; click images for larger variants)
With your Pebble continued, tap the „Activity“ button (see outset screenshot). You should so see a screen like in the second screenshot, summarizing your activity of the last 24 hours. From here yous can swipe to the other screens (or tap their „tab“ on the bottom of the screen). In case you lot wonder whether I have no heart (beats): the Pebble has no sensor for that, and then it doesn’t support information technology (screens are the same for MiBand, which does support heart rate). Every bit you’ve probably already have discovered on the screenshots, yous can scan through the days using the corresponding buttons in the upper part of the screen.
This is what it will expect like on your Pebble:
Steps and Sleep on your Pebble watch (click images for larger variants)
Live activeness (the 4th tab, missing in above screenshots) does not work with
Pebble Wellness,
wellness does not send live information (it tin can be used with the Mi Ring). Gadgetbridge separates information from the Mi Ring, Pebble Health, Misfit and Morpheuz. The database can exist exported in the debug activity. It is a sqlite database, so yous could use it with your own project to interpret nerveless information (also see
Exporting information – meaning of columns
if y’all’re interested in this).
Notifications
Notifications on the Pebble
This is the place where yous tin find all notifications which were sent to your Pebble – including those you’ve missed to read. The watchapp allows yous to read them, or articulate them
all
out (just non to clear selected entries). Consider this to be your „notification history“.
Alarms
Alarms on the Pebble
You can
setup alarms directly on your Pebble: either „normal alarms“ that fire exactly at the time configured, or „smart alarms“ (non on Pebble Classic and Steel) which fire at a bespeak in the specified interval – avoiding to get you upwardly on the wrong side of bed past non firing while y’all’re in a phase of deep-sleep. For both types, y’all tin can define which days they should be enabled – and you can setup multiple alarms, and use unlike vibration patterns (non on Pebble Classic an Steel). Unfortunately, it’s not possible to
sync Pebble alarms with your stock Android alarms.
Oh: do not expect some nice music or birds sound to wake you app. The Pebble has no speaker for that. Instead, it will „hum“ (vibrate).
Watchfaces
Watchfaces on the Pebble
If you have multiple watch faces installed, this is where you can switch between them. Utilise the top and lesser buttons on your Pebble’s correct side to navigate, and the heart button to select the face up you wish to see.
Sport and Golf
Sport
and
Golf game
are some kind of barebone apps. Information technology is possible for companion apps to
- starting time and stop them
- ready the values you see on screen
- customize the proper noun and icon
- react to buttons when the app is started
The
Sport
watchapp
The
Golf
watchapp
Gadgetbridge does have support for all these except for changing the icon (of course you need to “Allow 3rd Political party Android App Access” in Gadgetbridge
Pebble specific settings
first). I app known to work with this is
RunnerUp.
The Golf App should also work with Gadgetbridge, although information technology is untested.
Freecaddie
and
Golf Pad Gps
seem to be a golf companion apps with Pebble support.
Weather
Starting with version 0.17,
Gadgetbridge
offers back up for conditions information on your Pebble. To do this without requiring the
INTERNET
permission for itself, this requires the assistance of a weather provider on your Android device – which is provided by the
Conditions notification
app available at
F-Droid.
Install the Weather Notification app / actuate Pebble Weather app / activate the pare
If your Pebble runs firmware 4.x, simply open
Gadgetbridge,
tap the „App Director“ icon of your device, and switch to the „Installed Apps“ tab. There y’all should find an app labeled „Conditions (System)“. Long tap that. If y’all didn’t yet install the afore mentioned atmospheric condition provider, you volition be prompted to do and so now (outset screenshot to a higher place this paragraph). Tapping the prompt will open your web browser with the app’s page at
F-Droid,
where y’all tin can use the APK download link. Alternatively, open your
F-Droid
app, search for „Weather notification“, and install it that style. In one case installed and long-pressing the entry once again, you should see something like in the 2d screenshot – and can enable the Pebble „Weather“ arrangement app.
If your device runs a lower firmware version, you won’t take that arrangement app available. In this case, merely make sure you lot install the „provider“ from
F-Droid
as described, and continue with the next stride. Conditions will nevertheless be bachelor to the watchfaces.
Now, you must enable the
Gadgetbridge
skin in the
Weather notification
app: outset the app, and flip the Gadgetbridge peel switch equally shown in the third screenshot. Too make sure that you have the „Enable Notification“ switch enabled. If you don’t desire weather information in your notification surface area, flip off the „Default Skin“. Experience free to adjust the other settings; for weather to work with your Pebble and
Gadgetbridge
y’all’re already washed at present.
Pebble Weather app / weather condition with the
Healthify
watchface / atmospheric condition with the
TrekVolle
watchface
For watchfaces to show weather information,
Gadgetbridge
must adapt to them. Bank check with the
Pebble weather for watchface requests
effect if your candidate already is supported. If it’s not, yous tin can ask there for it to be added. Please sympathize that this requires a wait into the watchface’s lawmaking – then information technology being Open Source would help a lot here.
At present, bask the weather in your watchface – as shown by the two examples above!
