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I was a Pebble fan, but recent changes are bad. They stuff more and more into their Pebble Health cloud offering. Just today I opened a support call to figure

I was a Pebble fan, but recent changes are bad. They stuff more and more into their Pebble Health cloud offering. Just today I opened a support call to figure out what data they transmit to their servers and how long they store it. I'm also currently unconvinced that you can use the Pebble to track steps/your sleep without uploading your data (i.e. it seems that you either opt into Pebble Health and Pebble gets your data or .. you don't get it either). Depending on the reaction of the support call I will either dispose of this thing or use it offline - new products from Pebble aren't exactly interesting for me at this point..

fra 10y ago
Pebble engineer here. You can absolutely disable data upload and continue using pebble health. The support team will guide you though it. In the future, we hope to make the settings options to do so more explicit. The only feature that currently requires analytics to work is voice transcription.
- ryukafalz 10y ago
  Is this the "Usage logs" option in the settings? That disables sending health data to Pebble servers as well? Personally, if it were an option, I would like to disable sending health data but still send voice data for transcription. I can understand if you're using Google's voice recognition APIs, but IMO there's no reason the two have to be linked.
- darklajid 10y ago
  Thank you, that's awesome and reassuring - although you might take away that it's near impossible to figure out in the settings right now. You even got a reply on this random board from another pebble customer who's still confused (and usage log doesn't seem likely to me, that sounds like telemetry? "User likes to access feature A" vs "All the sensor data"). In short: I'm looking forward to the support reply. Initial reply was 'forwarding to tech, might need more time'. Please consider making this more explicit, if you're in a position to bring this issue up. Edit: In fact, this comment of yours convinced me that Pebble (vs all the other watches) IS the right choice - I just backed the campaign for a Time 2 / Core combo). Thanks.

fra 10y ago

Pebble engineer here. You can absolutely disable data upload and continue using pebble health. The support team will guide you though it. In the future, we hope to make the settings options to do so more explicit. The only feature that currently requires analytics to work is voice transcription.

ryukafalz 10y ago
Is this the "Usage logs" option in the settings? That disables sending health data to Pebble servers as well? Personally, if it were an option, I would like to disable sending health data but still send voice data for transcription. I can understand if you're using Google's voice recognition APIs, but IMO there's no reason the two have to be linked.
darklajid 10y ago
Thank you, that's awesome and reassuring - although you might take away that it's near impossible to figure out in the settings right now. You even got a reply on this random board from another pebble customer who's still confused (and usage log doesn't seem likely to me, that sounds like telemetry? "User likes to access feature A" vs "All the sensor data"). In short: I'm looking forward to the support reply. Initial reply was 'forwarding to tech, might need more time'. Please consider making this more explicit, if you're in a position to bring this issue up. Edit: In fact, this comment of yours convinced me that Pebble (vs all the other watches) IS the right choice - I just backed the campaign for a Time 2 / Core combo). Thanks.