It’s an exciting time to be a Pebble fan. After years of being kept alive by the dedicated Rebble community, the Pebble is officially back. The new Pebble 2 Duo watches (the black-and-white model) are officially shipping to the first backers, with the high-resolution color Pebble Time 2 set to follow.

So, I decided to make one myself.

 

Introducing ‘Just Weather’

I wanted a face that was clean, digital, and gave me all the key data at a glance, formatted to look great on the 144×168 screen of the Pebble 2. I call it “Just Weather.”

It uses the free Open-Meteo API to pull in a ton of useful, hyperlocal data right to your wrist:

 

• • Current Location (from your phone’s GPS)
  • Temperature
  • Current Conditions (“Partly Cloudy,” “Rain,” etc.)
  • Barometric Pressure & 3-Hour Trend
  • Wind Speed & Precipitation
  • …and of course, the time!

 

 

Built with GitHub CoPiliot

The best part is that the new Pebble development workflow is incredibly modern. I was able to build this using the CloudPebble IDE, which now integrates directly with VS Code in the browser.

This meant I could use the emerging tools like GitHub Copilot to help generate the code and work through the trickiest parts—like making direct HTTPS requests to the weather API, which (after a lot of testing!) we proved is possible from the phone app.

After getting the data, the final step was tweaking the C code to make sure the layout wasn’t clipped and all the information fit perfectly on the 144×168 screen. It’s now compatible with watches in the Pebble family, from the original Pebble Time (color) to the new Pebble 2 Duo and the upcoming Pebble Time 2.

 

 

Available Now

This project took around 6 hours, with the main issue being that Co-Pilot did not know how to get HTTP requests – it took me down a lot of rabbit holes, and in the end, it was down to using a simpler call on the data – XMLHttpRequest. Once this worked it all fell into place and it was simply a case of asking Copilot to add in the data fields, do the geocoding and then take a step back and explain how the code actually works.

If you’re like me and just want a simple, data-rich weather face, please give it a try…

 

• • Download ‘Just Weather‘ from the Rebble Appstore
  • Check out the source code on GitHub for the latest updates – now includes its own settings page (its become a proper watch face app)…