Description

Walkie-talkie for your Pebble – with text. Pick a friend, press SELECT, speak: your words arrive as a text message on their watch. End-to-end encrypted, open source, and you can run your own server.

WatchieTalkie2 continues the original Watchie-Talkie app, which has been offline for years. It is a free hobby project: a just-for-fun chat with your friends, right from your wrist.

• Speech to text via Pebble dictation (watches with microphone)
• Quick replies you define yourself (also for watches without microphone)
• Usernames, invitations, blocking
• Direct chats and groups (up to 20 people)
• History: last 50 messages per chat, kept for 30 days
• End-to-end encryption (NaCl): the server operator cannot read your messages
• Optional: notifications even when the app is closed, via ntfy (free, also your own server), your own Telegram bot or Pushover – see below
• Radio beep on new messages on watches with speaker (Time 2, Pebble 2 Duo, Round 2) – silent during Quiet Time, hold SELECT in the list to mute
• Respects Quiet Time: no vibration, no beep
• Battery-friendly: long polling only while the app is open, no background activity
• Every Pebble: Pebble/Steel, Time, Time Steel, Time Round, Pebble 2, Time 2, Pebble 2 Duo, Round 2
• Open source (MIT) – host your own server with Node.js, no database needed

Getting started: open the app settings in the Pebble app, choose a username and invite friends by their username. On the watch: SELECT = speak, long SELECT = quick reply.

Why an extra app? A watch app cannot listen for messages while it is closed, and the new Pebble app does not deliver timeline notifications from servers. So a buzz with the app closed needs a normal phone notification, which the Pebble app forwards to your watch. You choose ntfy, Telegram or Pushover; it only gets "New message: <sender>", never the text. Totally optional: without it, messages arrive whenever the app is open. Set it up in the app settings.

Beta: use at your own risk, no guarantee of availability or delivery. Not for emergencies.

Ideas, feature requests and bug reports are very welcome: https://github.com/sgitaize/Pebble-WatchieTalkie/issues

Source code & self-hosting: https://github.com/sgitaize/Pebble-WatchieTalkie

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