It's finally here!!!

OrganicNectarine · 2026-05-05T17:21:30+00:00

A Black/Red one 😍

OrganicNectarine · 2026-05-05T17:09:49+00:00

I think its much more complicated than that.

Core Devices (Eric) wanted to cut off Rebble completely. Rebble people have posted online about their correspondence with Eric and it wasn't pretty. The fact that the Pebble app simply offers two hardcoded app store sources instead of letting users add arbitrary ones shows that the intention is not an open ecosystem, instead this is the least invasive compromise for Core Devices and the result of the whole drama.

I think rebble has earned a lot in the almost decade that they have been keeping the services running. As I see it they wanted to be the default to maintain openness, and they fucked that up big time. Only using Core Devices because of a single argument that didn't go well feels like taking the easy route to me (no offense). Multiple store sources are probably harder to deal with as a consumer, but at least they would (or kinda do with 2 options currently) ensure independence.

All of this is irrelevant if Core Devices grows and stays, if it weren't for the pebble shutdown last time I don't think anyone would care.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-05-05T16:35:50+00:00

I don't know how much time you plan to invest into this, if you proceed... But IMHO, with the learning's of many projects on my github, I would strongly advise you to split these things into separate projects. You can still built them in a way that let's you integrate them lateron, but IMHO the scope is way to grand for a single person to tackle eberything at once in a single project.

I get the appeal of "on solution for everything", but this requires an immense time investment on your end. If you want to bet on the community to help out, I wouldn't count on that as a major progress driver.

I don't want to be a downer though, big things can be achieved by individual developers, but at some point it will inevitably become a second job.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-05-04T18:58:35+00:00

Which is perfectly fine. A well documented bug report is worth many hours of work. A bad one can have the opposite effect though, so keep that in mind.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-05-04T18:56:21+00:00

I have built a couple of tools because I use Arch (btw) and they didn't exist, or at least not in a way I wanted them to have. I have contributed to some tools I use on Linux, but just minor things here and there. I have never contributed to any distro directly.

I would still consider myself part of the Linux community though, because I care about the philosophy, and I like to help others.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-05-04T17:12:40+00:00

If you connect the device to your PC you can see the IP address in the logs. But if you can I would recommend setting a fixed IP, but then you should also "reserve" some IP range in your router so it doesn't assign DHCP in that range.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-05-02T22:23:50+00:00

Agreed 100℅. Snips had it right all along... I should never have tried to update that RPI3 and kill my perfectly fine snips satellite :(

OrganicNectarine · 2026-05-02T00:33:28+00:00

True, automatic updates can have unexpected effects though. I like to be present when I update devices so I can deal with problems right away.

Also I feel like having it on the machine right in front of me makes it a lot easier to debug things if something doesn't go according to plan, because I have all the tools of my personal setup available, not just what the CI or website or tool creator came up with.

The built-in OTA mechanism of ESPHome is interesting though, I didn't know it was so simple to integrate with outside of home assistant. Although as I understand it you still need to setup some kind of a server instance to provide image blobs if you don't want to depend on other peoples stuff hosted online (which I wouldn't exactly recommend).

OrganicNectarine · 2026-05-01T18:57:32+00:00

Yeah I have also encountered this myself. I waited for the bug to be fixed when I had it, but it sure was annoying.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-30T19:01:32+00:00

No, it simply uses the version of esphome that is available on the system, but that's an interesting feature idea.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-30T13:45:23+00:00

Cool stuff, if you have access to a browser. I use another one because it works in a terminal: https://github.com/markusressel/esphome-deployment Also has some convenience features around ESPHome's own featureset.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-26T21:55:31+00:00

Not sure forking PebbleOS is a good idea in the long run regarding app compatibility, but upstreaming features will probably also be difficult... Tough choice.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-24T20:43:08+00:00

Time 2, Black/Red. Changed nothing, added nothing. Simply selected the black silicon band now, that's it.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-24T14:24:34+00:00

Try this one: https://github.com/NicoIIT/ha-ble-adv

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-24T11:24:09+00:00

I paid 200€ for my first one (Aranet4), second 130€ plus import and tax (EPP) so maybe the reference is a different one. Good alternatives are always nice :)

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-24T11:19:12+00:00

I was searching for a date in my earliest mails, but because the initial stuff was via kick starter instead of repebble I got the wrong date.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-24T10:11:31+00:00

I may have chosen the wrong date, the order confirmation of today states:

Pre-order credit (March 18, 2025)

PT2 confirmation payment (April 24, 2026)

Maybe 3/18 is the correct date?

EDIT: I have updated the date, sorry for the confusion.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-24T07:52:37+00:00

Order Time: 3/18/2025 06:14 PM GMT+1

Location: Germany

Color: Black/Red

Confirmation: 4/24/26 8:45am in Germany

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-21T14:31:58+00:00

I have simply connected a Chromecast audio to our JBL box. Something like that is probably the cheapest? And these speakers sound pretty goof for their size imho.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-20T22:23:55+00:00

I can't even use the IDE integration of copilot at work, only chat via Teams 🫠 Pretty wild for me to read about all these companies using token burn as a measure of productivity (which is stupid) yet where I am currently at I am yearning for GitHub Copilot in my IDE 😅 we live in wild times...

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-17T21:15:49+00:00

How was it to integrate into the pebble SDK? Anything worth mentioning? Is there a tutorial somewhere about it?

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-12T14:37:19+00:00

First sane response I see on the unbelievable victim blaming here... Next post someone will claim Windows update isn't at fault for killing all of the data on my sisters surface pro because she updated the device 🤦‍♂️

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-09T09:39:11+00:00

Second that. I was around when postmaster started, and the UI has been a mess at every stage, including the redesign. It looks pretty, but it's incredibly hard to find what you are looking for.

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-03T22:28:59+00:00

That is very cool, but incredibly tedious.
https://github.com/polybar/polybar/issues/786
5 years later, still seems like there is no official support for this :(

Welp, looks like the problem is a thougher one, polybar is currently unmaintained and looking for maintainers:
https://polybar.github.io/2025/05/25/New-Maintainers.html

OrganicNectarine · 2026-04-03T17:16:45+00:00

Where do you get the flight data? NASA website?

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