Pebble has released an update for its smartwatches\u00a0so that they will keep working when their servers go down.<\/p>\n
“Today\u2019s updates to the Pebble apps for iOS and Android liberate them from past dependency on cloud services,” said\u00a0Pebble<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n “Freeing the ecosystem from these dependencies means Pebble smartwatches can operate normally, even if online servers are not accessible for any reason.”<\/p>\n If Pebble’s authentication servers can’t be reached, you\u00a0can skip the login process, but the Pebble app store will not be available.<\/p>\n Apps can only be installed via side-loading\u00a0under these circumstances.<\/p>\n “We removed the option to contact support, but users can still use the functionality to export diagnostic data – including the Health database.”<\/p>\n Health data collection and telemetry reporting has been removed, and the option to suggest new features has been removed.<\/p>\n Developers can also side-load a service configuration to change which servers the Pebble app communicates with.<\/p>\n Pebble has released an update for its smartwatches so that they will keep working when their servers go down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":175487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[25235,10776],"class_list":["post-205926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-fitbit","tag-pebble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205976,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205926\/revisions\/205976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Pebble smartwatches \u2014\u00a0from rags, to riches, to rags<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"