I’m interested in using Index 01 for home automation (e.g., triggering actions with single or double clicks).
If I only use it for button clicks that send events to my phone—without recording or transmitting any audio—what is the expected battery consumption?
In this usage scenario, will the battery last significantly longer?
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Thanks for reply Eric.
Wife defining shop lists will be interesting eh? 
Seriously, keep us posted ref the family features 
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yes, probably hundreds of thousands of clicks
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Hi Eric
Once Index01 (for example) has captured to Googles ‘Keep Notes’, i was wondering if my ‘Keep Notes’ from the Index01 (and even manual phone entries) could be browsed on a Pebble. Perhaps not in the timeline but via a different way on the watch?. Timeline is mainly date related.
Simple. but i really like Google Keep Notes.
Thankyou
SM
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That sounds great.
So would it be possible to trigger voice recording on my pebble watch if I’m wearing that? And only use the ring microphone in case I’m not wearing it? Because I’m almost always wearing a watch that should make the ring last 10+ years (theoretically) while keeping the exact same functionality.
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Yes clarity on this from Eric would be most useful, unless youve had a reply?
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Yes, this is the plan!
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The Claude app has no troubles creating reminders in Apple Reminders - maybe something to look into. Definitely not when locked or via shortcuts but it is technically possible
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Is there any chance you might add larger sizes? I ordered a couple rings, but after printing the rings from the stls, it looks like a size 13 will be too tight for my ring. Scaling it to a size 14 did fit well.
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Just 13, sorry! Maybe try on a different finger?
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Good tip! Should be possible for us to add that then
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what level of customizable will the input be? i.e. could I map “press and hold” to only ever record using the watch, and use charge on the ring similar to just tapping the button? or is it hardware level to power the mic on the ring?
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That’s currently the plan!
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Hi Eric!
I am kinda wondering about that battery life. You say it is about 12-15h of recording whereover continues button press triggers the recording? Or is it just a click that triggers the recording?
How do you guys make sure that false button presses are not triggering recording.
I can see me having this constantly triggered with out actually recording something, just by colliding with objects holding in my hands (like holding a phone), or touching things or alike.
Those false triggers would significantly reduce battery point to a point that people get frustrated of having wasted their money on bad initial design choices.
Any thoughts on how to avoid false triggers?
All that said i understand you won‘t go with a charing solution since this would require charge management and charging pins along with a charing cable as well as more space for the lion battery to expand.
But why not allowing the user to replace the battery cell like a quartz watch? Even water resistance 30meters should be possible this way the same as quartz watches.
You will likely need to to this in any way to comply with EU regulatories if you ever plan to officially sell within the EU. Just a sidenote.
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Thanks for your interest! Happy to answer these questions and any more you might have.
You must hold the button down to record. It has an auto-cut off after 2 minutes that stops recording, in the event that you fall asleep some how on the button against a hard surface.
Lots of mechanical design! We worked hard on this. It is a very good button!
It happens rarely. Holding objects would not click it but leaning against a table edge in a very specific way may trigger it.
It’s not really a problem, I think I’ve had 2-3 accidental triggers this week, and they last for <1s.
Unfortunately a ring is constructed in a very different manner from a watch. In order to keep it small, lightweight and water resistant, we chose not to make the battery replaceable.
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I’m really looking forward to this! Regarding waterproofing. How would it fare in ocean swimming? Would the salt water damage the ring? Also I use hand sanitizer a lot at work, will this affect the surface?
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Hey Abraham,
Definitely don’t use it for swimming! It’s not designed for that. We also haven’t tested it with hand sanitizer. Generally I would not expose it to oils or chemicals like that. Soap is fine.
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Really looking forward to this, I have high hopes, and I do respect the engineering tradeoffs you’re making.
With battery life being finite, I really want the ability to lock the button to prevent accidental triggers. When I know I’m in a situation where this can happen – such as during sleep, or physical activity like moving boxes etc I’d like to be certain I’m not burning battery or making entries I don’t need.
This could be within the app, and/or possibly as a triple-click on the button with the RGB led blinking once to indicate state.
(Icing on the cake would be to support iOS focus modes etc. but I can see how that is probably much more effort for less gain.)
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Can the button be used as simple counter instead of triggering a recording? If I just wanted to record the timestamps of a certain event throughout the day could I press the button to do that without recording any audio, and review the times that I pressed the button later in the app?
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theoretically! you’d have to modify the (open source) Pebble app to do that though GitHub - coredevices/mobileapp
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