Let Your Pebble Time Track Package Deliveries – with the Deliveries App

Pebble Time with Michael – Day 19

Deliiveries

I’m always ordering things from the web, usually from Amazon. It seems that in any given week I’ve got one or more packages on their way to my home. Heck, it wasn’t that long ago that one such package was of extreme interest to me – the package from Pebble that contained my Pebble Time!

So over time I’ve used a variety of web-based and mobile device-based tools to track the status of incoming packages. I was very happy to discover one such app for my Pebble Time: Deliveries.

Deliveries is described as a “universal package tracker”, in that it supports tracking of packages delivered by a variety of US-based and international carriers. These include USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, TNT, Canada Post, Royal Mail, and many, many others.

The application does this job quite well. When you start it up on your Pebble Time it lists all of the current packages you are tracking. Selecting one causes the application to issue a tracking query to the appropriate carrier and then display the results on the watch’s screen.

The only problem I have with the application is that in order to enter the tracking number and nickname associated with the package of interest, you need to use the Pebble Time application on your phone to access the Deliveries application settings and enter it there. Now, realistically I really don’t see any practical way to enter this information directly into the Pebble Time, but it still feels like extra work to me to reach for the phone, start up the Pebble Time application, and enter the data then and there. Once entered, the phone need not be touched again, but it still somehow bothers me to have to perform this “extra step” on my phone. Nevertheless, once this data is entered the app serves the function of package tracker quite well. I suspect I’m just being excessively picky regarding this topic!

3 thoughts on “Let Your Pebble Time Track Package Deliveries – with the Deliveries App”

  1. Good day!

    I have been reading everyday since you began and it’s apps like this and the others you feature that are making me very excited and anxious to receive my Pebble Time Steel. This should utilize the timeline perfectly!

    I don’t know if you are aware of this, but there seems to be technology available that allows direct data entry into a Pebble. It’s called Tertiary Text for Pebble and it’s available in the Pebble App store (The app is called Notepad). According to the description, it can be used individually and app developers can implement it in their apps. I have never owned a Pebble so I have no way of checking it out until mine arrives, but hopefully someone will give a thorough investigation and report the results..;-)

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    Many thanks and keep up the excellent work. This blog is one of my must reads everyday!

  2. Thanks for the information, sounds like a very a interesting app. I’ll definitely check it out!

  3. Tertiary text is also used in Alarms++ to set named for separate alarms in its list.
    You use the 3 right hand side buttons to select increasingly smaller pieces of the alphabet.
    It works, but selecting a letter takes 3 button pushes, numbers even more…

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