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Bring life back to your Pebble

On December 7th, 2016, Pebble announced that they were ceasing operations. Two days later, on December 9th, 2016, the Rebble web site went live, announcing our intention to "maintain and advance Pebble functionality, in the absence of Pebble Technology Corp." We have fulfilled much of this goal via Rebble Web Services, which restores most of the functionality that the Pebble community knows and loves. Read about our journey in the blog, find detailed instructions in our setup guide, or simply...

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Rebbles in a World with Core

Almost nine years ago, when what was to become Rebble began to emerge from the ashes of Pebble Technology, Corp., David stated a goal for the project to “bring the many disparate (Pebble preservation) efforts under a single banner, concentrating energy and enthusiasm to maximize the likelihood of continuance and resurgence of Pebble as a platform.” It’s hard to believe it’s been that long – and it’s hard to believe that it’s already been 8 months since Google released the original firmware source code, and Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky formed a new company, Core Devices … it seems that the “resurgence” that we imagined has truly come to fruition!

It’s a really lovely moment to take a breath and take a look at how far we’ve come. We’re incredibly proud to have delivered on the promise of “continuance” for these nine years – for longer than Pebble Technology Corporation itself, in fact! – and to have evolved along the way from a loose collection of co-conspirators, to Rebble Alliance, LLC, to our current non-profit Rebble Foundation. It has been a delight and an honor to get to serve you – the Pebble community – for all these years, and to have made good on our promise to keep the dream alive for our favorite little watches.

And it’s also exciting moment to look forward to how Rebble and Core Devices can partner together in a future for the Pebble ecosystem, and to come up with some new promises for you going forward! So for more on how we’re working with Core Devices, how we plan to continue to serve you, and how you can get involved, read on…

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Introducing Bobby, our new Pebble assistant

I’m excited to announce a new Rebble service for our paying Rebble subscribers: Bobby, a voice assistant app for your Pebble!

Bobby - Pebble Assistant

Bobby is available from the Rebble Appstore now! You can also check out its webpage.

Bobby is a new voice assistant for your Pebble. It’s inspired by Snowy, but powered by modern AI technology (specifically, Google’s Gemini LLM). This makes Bobby both easier to use and more powerful than Snowy: no longer do you need to phrase your requests exactly.

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The future of Rebble

Today we’re excited to announce several developments which will affect the future of Rebble. Let’s get straight into it, starting with the big one…

🎉 Google Open Sources Tintin

Today Google announced that they have released the source code to PebbleOS. This is massive for Rebble, and will accelerate our efforts to produce new hardware.

Previously, we have been working on our own replacement firmware: RebbleOS. As you can see by the commit history though, progress was slow. Building a production-ready realtime OS for the Pebble is no small feat, and although we were confident we’d get there given enough time, it was never our ideal path. Thanks to the hard work of many people both within Google and not, we finally have our hands on the original source code for PebbleOS. You can read Google’s blog post on this for even more information.

This does not mean we instantly have the ability to start developing updates for PebbleOS though, we first will need to spend some concentrated time getting it to build. But before we talk about that, let’s talk about Rebble itself.

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