PbNotify is a Remote Pebble Notification API powered by Flask and MongoDB that can easily be set up to provide a public-facing bridge between the Internet at large and local notifications on your Pebble smartwatch. It is accompanied by a watchface on the Pebble that communicates with your smartphone via httpebble. This is ideal for many situations, as essentially any web app or server that could make a single API call can send notifications straight to your wrist. This was inspired by the need to be notified in a convenient manner when long-running commands on a remote server completed. Not only does PbNotify allow such notifications, but it also allows for a plethora of information to be sent along with the simple ping, such as the last command's exit status.

With the extra time I had after completing this hack, I implemented the Twilio SMS API, hooking it up to the PbNotify instance I have running on my demo site. As a result, you can directly text notifications to my watch! Simply send a text of the format <userid>|<source>|<text> to (617) 326-5364 (my userid is 5250a011dabae068d13ee5f4).

Also found here is a quick API explorer that was hacked together for an entirely different project I had in mind.

Simply start up the server, entering in your own secret key and database information, or try the demo at http://yasyf.scripts.mit.edu:8080/. After creating an account/logging in, you will be given a userid which can then be used with the following calls.

###create new notification ####/notification/create/ #####{endpoint}/api/notification/create/<userid>/<source>/<text> userid: your generated userid source: the originating entity of your notification text: the text of your notification

returns: json-encoded notificationid

$ curl "http://yasyf.scripts.mit.edu:8080/api/notification/create/5250a011dabae068d13ee5f4/Test/HelloWorld"
{"notificationid": "525119b8796af044768ee0db"}
$ 

###retrieve most recent notification ####/notification/get/ #####{endpoint}/api/notification/get/<userid> userid: your generated userid

returns: httpebble-friendly json-encoded notification (source and text)

$ curl "http://yasyf.scripts.mit.edu:8080/api/notification/get/5250a011dabae068d13ee5f4/525119b8796af044768ee0db"
{"1": "Test", "2": "HelloWorld"}
$ 

###retrieve notification ####/notification/get/ #####{endpoint}/api/notification/get/<userid>/<notificationid> userid: your generated userid notificationid: the notificationid returned from a previous /notification/create/ call

returns: httpebble-friendly json-encoded notification (source and text)

$ curl "http://yasyf.scripts.mit.edu:8080/api/notification/get/5250a011dabae068d13ee5f4"
{"1": "Test", "2": "HelloWorld"}
$

###mark most recent notification as delivered ####/notification/delivered/ #####{endpoint}/api/notification/delivered/<userid> userid: your generated userid

returns: json-encoded success or failure

$ curl "http://yasyf.scripts.mit.edu:8080/api/notification/delivered/5250a011dabae068d13ee5f4"
{"status": "success"}
$