I recently developed a Pebble Radar app that tracks you and other Pebble watches. It uses the smart phone GPS to plot your location against a radar grid, and plots the closest dozen other Pebble watches that are running this app.
You can zoom in and out using the up and down buttons, which also briefly displays the grid distance. The top corners show the zoom level and number of visible symbols (which represent other Pebble users). The middle button leads to a configuration screen for choosing your symbol, GPS accuracy, date format, screen inversion, and other custom settings. Shaking the watch will trigger another GPS request and update of the other screen blips.
It will be a few weeks before the JavaScript code is available in the iOS Pebble App Store. Would anyone be willing to test this app either on Android or by sideloading the .pbw file on iOS?
I would love to hear feedback from any clustered group of Pebble owners who simultaneously use this app. Seems like a good way to keep track of your family or friends at a crowd event.
http://setpebble.com/app/radar
I also think this app may lead to some other location-based Pebble utilities and games. If anyone has any ideas, please share them. I would love to combine this concept with my Maptastic app for real-time tracking against a map background, but alas the 24KB app limit will probably nix this idea.
Thanks in advance to any testers! Regards, Matt
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You can zoom in and out using the up and down buttons, which also briefly displays the grid distance. The top corners show the zoom level and number of visible symbols (which represent other Pebble users). The middle button leads to a configuration screen for choosing your symbol, GPS accuracy, date format, screen inversion, and other custom settings. Shaking the watch will trigger another GPS request and update of the other screen blips.
It will be a few weeks before the JavaScript code is available in the iOS Pebble App Store. Would anyone be willing to test this app either on Android or by sideloading the .pbw file on iOS?
I would love to hear feedback from any clustered group of Pebble owners who simultaneously use this app. Seems like a good way to keep track of your family or friends at a crowd event.
http://setpebble.com/app/radar
I also think this app may lead to some other location-based Pebble utilities and games. If anyone has any ideas, please share them. I would love to combine this concept with my Maptastic app for real-time tracking against a map background, but alas the 24KB app limit will probably nix this idea.
Thanks in advance to any testers! Regards, Matt