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> I don’t care about apps, I just want a thing that measures my heart rate, notifies me if I get a call or text, has more than a couple days of battery life, an

> I don’t care about apps, I just want a thing that measures my heart rate, notifies me if I get a call or text, has more than a couple days of battery life, and that’s it. https://repebble.com/watch https://repebble.com/watch says the Pebble Time 2 has > Heart rate, step and sleep tracking Isn't that what you want?

creinhardt 8mo ago
Basically! Is heart rate recorded to a Pebble specific app, or can it be synced with things like Apple Health? I guess the one other feature I like of the Apple Watch is the rings/daily fitness goals functionality. I'll have to look into the Pebble more to see if that's possible. I also like the background monitoring features the Watch has (hypertension, etc.), but I'm assuming that's a little too much for the Pebble.
- shikshake 8mo ago
  I believe you can see that stuff on the Pebble app but you can't sync with Apple health. See this previous pebble blog post: https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones/ https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-...
  - jerlam 8mo ago
    The Pebble 2 could write data to Apple Health ten years ago. It would be surprising to have that missing now.
    - chias 8mo ago
      Not so surprising. In the interim, Apple watch became a thing, and Apple has since locked down the ability for third-party smart-watches to do things in the iOS ecosystem. Some info from Eric: https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones/ https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-...
  - petemir 8mo ago
    My Garmin syncs its data to Apple Health. I don't see why Pebble wouldn't be able to do it. My understanding of the post is that it mostly refers to internal iOS APIs that are not available to third parties (e.g. actionable notifications).
  - dnlzro 8mo ago
    That’s not true. There’s an API to read from and write to Apple Health: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/healthkit https://developer.apple.com/documentation/healthkit I’m not sure if that’s something the Pebble app uses right now, but it’s certainly possible, and a third-party app could make it happen as well.

creinhardt 8mo ago

Basically! Is heart rate recorded to a Pebble specific app, or can it be synced with things like Apple Health? I guess the one other feature I like of the Apple Watch is the rings/daily fitness goals functionality. I'll have to look into the Pebble more to see if that's possible. I also like the background monitoring features the Watch has (hypertension, etc.), but I'm assuming that's a little too much for the Pebble.

shikshake 8mo ago
I believe you can see that stuff on the Pebble app but you can't sync with Apple health. See this previous pebble blog post: https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones/ https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-...
- jerlam 8mo ago
  The Pebble 2 could write data to Apple Health ten years ago. It would be surprising to have that missing now.
  - chias 8mo ago
    Not so surprising. In the interim, Apple watch became a thing, and Apple has since locked down the ability for third-party smart-watches to do things in the iOS ecosystem. Some info from Eric: https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones/ https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-...
- petemir 8mo ago
  My Garmin syncs its data to Apple Health. I don't see why Pebble wouldn't be able to do it. My understanding of the post is that it mostly refers to internal iOS APIs that are not available to third parties (e.g. actionable notifications).
- dnlzro 8mo ago
  That’s not true. There’s an API to read from and write to Apple Health: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/healthkit https://developer.apple.com/documentation/healthkit I’m not sure if that’s something the Pebble app uses right now, but it’s certainly possible, and a third-party app could make it happen as well.