charging cable from Pebble reusable?

Hi,

my Bangle arrived today and the charging cable looks very close to the ones I used with my Pebble.
But before blindly connecting I figured I'd ask the question;
Is it OK try try a Pebble cable and is there a diode or anything else in the watch dealing with the possibility of connecting the cable the wrong way around?

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Hi - yes, there is reverse protection - in fact the default charger can be connected the wrong way around and it's fine (it just doesn't charge!).

Regarding charging: if you have battery widget and bluetooth status display, as soon as charging stops while a watch is displayed you see one and a half bluetooth signs...

Yep, there is an issue for this behavior :)

https://github.com/espruino/BangleApps/issues/128

@Gordon thanks, appreciated.

On the pebble cable, it only looked similar, physically it's different enough to not adhere.
Ah well it was worth a try.

Well, I have a charging stand for my pebble that I can't use anymore because the battery is dead :-/
I was already able to remove the charging part from the stand, and the BangleJS should fit just fine - just need to add the cabling ;-)
Did someone figure out already how the charging cable of the BangleJS is connected?

Did someone figure out already how the charging cable of the BangleJS is connected?

Pretty sure it's straight through - one pin is GND, one pin is 5v

I bought a bunch extra so I'll be listing spares on the shop soon if they are needed for anything

I woke up to having my cable having shorted against the back of the watch while charging - it is now unusable and I was hoping you would have extra cables for it available...

However, shipping is twice the cost of a single cable :-/

Sorry to hear that - that's amazingly unlucky - the back of the watch itself isn't magnetic so the charge cable shouldn't stick to it.

Normally postage would be cheaper, but I had to remove untracked international post for the moment. What was happening was customers would order a bunch of stuff with the cheapest possible untracked post and then it wouldn't arrive for a month - and then they complain and I have to send out a second set of everything and end up losing a bunch of money.

In the end, I had no choice but to only offer tracked post through the shop while international post is so unpredictable.

I've just sent you a message about getting you cheaper postage - if this happens to anyone else while untracked post isn't available please let me know