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Haven't posted much about @repebble.com Index 01 recently (been...uh a bit in the weeds on PT2 shipping). But lots of progress has been made! Good news - we're in PVT2! Yes, 2 :)

The first PVT exposed two probs 1) possible ESD damage during assembly was blowing out the BLE amp on some units, 2) a change we made to the mic membrane caused some units to fail audio testing. We fixed both with modifications to the assembly line. Things seem to be on a good track now with PVT2!

When will my Index 01 ship? Our goal is to manufacture the first 2k units by mid-May and start shipping them out. It will take us roughly 3 months to manufacture and ship out all pre-orders, meaning we should be finished by July. As always, these are estimates. Delays may happen!

Brushed Silver We are switching from offering a polished silver to brushed silver finish! It looks great - photo below, with lots more to come. Head to orders.rePebble.com to switch colours.

Software improvements All open source, of course! github.com/coredevices/... - We added fully encrypted cloud backup (optional) - Local speech-to-text is working well, thanks to github.com/cactus-compute/cactus + parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3!

- You can optionally route audio or transcriptions to a webhook - enabling you to pipe recordings directly from your Index 01 to an agent like OpenClaw - Our lead engineer also added Home Assistant support (because she wanted it herself!!).

- Added Beeper (text directly from Index 01!), music control (Android only), Notion, Apple Reminders and Google Tasks integration - Bring your own MCP server Still working on a lot of stuff - dramatically improved UI, more reminder app integrations (Todoist, Tasks.org), and more.

Anything Home Assistant can do to make this experience better? Can't wait for mine to ship :-)