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@Noah-Pink-Penguin#112095 Wow! Thank you for sharing!

    Awesome! ⌚️

      @Noah-Pink-Penguin#112099 Looks awesome...

        @Noah-Pink-Penguin#112095 Great tutorial Noah!
        Might do something similar

          @Noah-Pink-Penguin#112095 Looks awesome! Maybe we can make a small watch app for it? Tell me if you'd want that, I think I can do it.

            @Luca-Panjer#112466 That would be awesome! At first, I was thinking about writing a dedicated watch app for this, but since there is no Swift SDK, it seems that might be quite a bit of work to get right ... and I wouldn’t be surprised if bunq was also working on a watch app themselves, somewhere in their pipeline 😉 But I definitely love and support the idea of a ‘real’ watch app for bunq!

              Awesome! But it's a shame really a feature like this is not added by Bunq itself.

                I agree with @Richard-Yellow-Shark#112810 here. It's very commendable that @Noah-Pink-Penguin made this but this should've been picked up by bunq.

                I'm feeling less and less sympathetic towards bunq if I'm honest. We pay a premium fee to be able to use this bank, but at the same time there's not much we get in return that another bank isn't offering for a lower fee or sometimes even for free.

                What personally irks me the wrong way is that bunq is essentially letting others do the dirty work for them for free, be it certain implementations and applications such as @Noah-Pink-Penguin's work or their free PR army that's dwelling around here that will reply on everything with a variant of 'bunq is great' or 'give bunq the benefit of the doubt' complete 👏 with 👏 the 👏 emoji 👏 spam that actual paid support is using just to make sure you buy into the feeling that everything is nice and sparkly ✨🌈

                bunq is literally the most expensive bank there is but yet they still feel the need to let the community do the heavy lifting for them while disguising it as it being something great, meanwhile the rol out of new functions is very slow, asking about them will always yield some vague reply that suggest that they're looking into it, making it all feel rather lacklustre. Update 11 was rather pathetic imho, with Ali acting like he's the new Steve Jobs announcing some groundbreaking stuff, while in reality most of it wasn't even aimed at the regular consumer and the stuff that was aimed at the business costumers was not that earth shattering, not in the least because they had the audacity to tack on a fee for something that should be free to begin with, let alone when you take into account what is being paid to use their services.

                Anyways, rant over, but I don't understand why everyone here on Together is acting like we should thank bunq on our knees that we are allowed to pay premium prices to use their service.

                  So, this is not a discussion we are gonna start here. bunq has limited resources and cannot build everything that is asked for. It is great that things that are not there (yet) can basically created via the API, we will see more of that from other banks too now that we have the PSD2 directive. Everyone is free to choose whether bunq is worth the fee or not. I will hide the comments that are (too) far off-topic. I will leave the original comment by Deniz (before we are accused of censorship again) but further comments about this matter won’t be allowed in this topic. It will just be a battle between people defending and attacking the pricing scheme (again). Those repetitive discussions are not in line with the Community Guidelines. Let’s stay on topic about the amazing efforts made by the developer of this tutorial. 🌈🙏

                    Schitterend !!!! Vandaag geïnstalleerd, werkt perfect. Na gebruik rees mij de vraag of dit ook mogelijk is met bunq kaart die dan het saldo van de gekoppelde rekening laat zien?

                      @Adrianus-Red-Dolphin#113191 Should be very easy to add this! Will look into it 😉

                        @Noah-Pink-Penguin#113294 Geweldig! Kijk er naar uit👌

                          @Adrianus-Red-Dolphin#113392 So, this turned out to be a bit harder than expected, due to a bug in the Python SDK that occurs when you are using a Travel Card...

                          Anyway, got around that, and it works now! 🌈 That is, you can now also view the balance of the account that is currently linked to a given card.

                          First, update the webserver on PythonAnywhere (if you already installed it, you can just do a ‘git pull’ and then reload the webapp from its configuration panel).

                          Similar to how you could query ‘<base-url>/accounts’ to get the id of the account you were interested in, you can now query ‘<base-url>/cards’ to get the id of the card you are interested in. Then, in Numerics, change the URL from ‘<base-url>/<account-id>/numerics’ to ‘<base-url>/<card-id>/numerics’... and you should be good to go! 🙂

                            @Noah-Pink-Penguin#113685
                            Thank you! Would like to learn how to do these things - will have a look for a kind of training now.

                              @Noah-Pink-Penguin#113685 Hartelijk dank voor je tijd en inspanning om dit toch weer voor elkaar te krijgen! Het werkt perfect, hulde 👍

                                @Heiko-Hartwig#113686 The bunq API docs is a great place to start 😉 I feel that direct usage of the RESTful API is pretty well documented, but probably hard and cumbersome to get right (haven’t tried it yet). The SDKs hide much of the complexity in using the API, and are a much easier way to get started in a programming language of your choosing. However, unless I missed something, they don’t really have their own documentation yet (which means you have to learn by looking at examples and digging into the SDK source code).

                                  @Adrianus-Red-Dolphin#113802 You’re welcome! It’s nice to see that this project is also useful to other people 🙂