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Gadgetbridge
We are on codeberg.org now! https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge - Gadgetbridge - A free and cloudless replacement for your gadget vendors' closed source Android applications. Supports Pebble, Mi Band, Liveview, HPlus and more.
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Gadgetbridge is now hosted on codeberg.org.
Gadgetbridge
Gadgetbridge is an Android (5.0+) application which will allow you to use your
Pebble, Mi Band, Amazfit Bip and HPlus device (and more) without the vendor's closed source application
and without the need to create an account and transmit any of your data to the
vendor's servers.
Homepage - Blog - Mastodon
Code Licenses
Gadgetbridge is licensed under the AGPLv3
Files in app/src/main/java/net/osmand/ and app/src/main/aidl/net/osmand/ are licensed under the GPLv3 by OsmAnd BV
Files in app/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle are licensed under the MIT license by The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
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Nightly releases
Nightly releases are updated more frequently and may be less stable than standard releases, and they are distributed by our F-Droid repository unlike standard releases.
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Supported Devices
Please see the Gadgets page on the website for a complete list of supported devices.
Features
Please see the Features page on the website.
Authors
Core Team (in order of first code contribution)
Andreas Shimokawa
Carsten Pfeiffer
Daniele Gobbetti
Petr Vaněk
Additional contributors
João Paulo Barraca (HPlus)
Vitaly Svyastyn (NO.1 F1)
Sami Alaoui (Teclast H30)
"ladbsoft" (XWatch)
Sebastian Kranz (ZeTime)
Vadim Kaushan (ID115)
"maxirnilian" (Lenovo Watch 9)
"ksiwczynski", "mkusnierz", "mamutcho" (Lenovo Watch X Plus)
Andreas Böhler (Casio)
Jean-François Greffier (Mi Scale 2)
Johannes Schmitt (BFH-16)
Lukas Schwichtenberg (Makibes HR3)
Daniel Dakhno (Fossil Q Hybrid, Fossil Hybrid HR)
Gordon Williams (Bangle.js)
Pavel Elagin (JYou Y5)
Taavi Eomäe (iTag)
Erik Bloß (TLW64)
Yukai Li (Lefun)
José Rebelo (Roidmi, Sony Headphones, Miband 7)
Arjan Schrijver (Fossil Hybrid HR watchfaces)
Contribute
Contributions are welcome, be it feedback, bug reports, documentation, translation, research or code. Feel free to work
on any of the open issues;
just leave a comment that you're working on one to avoid duplicated work.
Developer documentation - Support for a new Device - New Device Tutorial
Translations can be contributed via https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/freeyourgadget/gadgetbridge/
Community
If you would like to get in touch with other Gadgetbridge users and developers outside of Codeberg, you can do so via:
Matrix: #gadgetbridge:matrix.org
Do you have further questions or feedback?
Feel free to open an issue on our issue tracker, but please:
do not use the issue tracker as a forum, do not ask for ETAs and read the issue conversation before posting
use the search functionality to ensure that your question wasn't already answered. Don't forget to check the closed issues as well!
remember that this is a community project, people are contributing in their free time because they like doing so: don't take the fun away! Be kind and constructive.
Do not ask for help regarding your own projects, unless they are Gadgetbridge related
Having problems?
Phone crashing during device discovery? Disable Privacy Guard (or similarly named functionality) during discovery.
Open Gadgetbridge's settings and check the option to write log files
Reproduce the problem you encountered
Check the logfile at /sdcard/Android/data/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadgetbridge/files/gadgetbridge.log
File an issue at https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/issues/new/choose and possibly provide the logfile
Alternatively you may use the standard logcat functionality to access the log.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
16 sourcesI use a Garmin Vivosmart 4 or a Xiaomi Mi Band (v4 or v5) and simply don't connect it to the smartphone. That gets you access to the data on your wrist, but no log of the data. Great privacy with no data collection. If you want data collection maybe you can find an app that doesn't upload to the cloud or write your own; some fitness tracking apps can talk to a variety of devices and don't use the cloud. The Gadget Bridge web site has a list of which devices are compatible with it:
https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge
They do list the Pebble Steel. I'd try the Mi Band 5. The Vivosmart 4 is somewhat unstable in my experience.
In Ask HN: Which smartwatch is the best in self-hacking/quantified self?> Sure, their own stuff works better with their own stuff, and yes, the watches can't be configured without a phone, but that's also true of android.
Android have quite good open source project for this:
https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge
Obviously its not what Google intended, but Android is just better when it comes to support of open source alternatives. Yet obviously as I posted already in this topic it's hard to build convenient infrastructure for yourself in general.
In Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service companyI have privacy concerns with fitness trackers, so I did a search and found this: https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge
Seems very interesting, if this project is any good (certainly looks like it is) I may just get one of the supported devices.
In What Is Suspension Trauma a.k.a. Harness Hang Syndrome?For Android, there is https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge that supports Pebble, Mi Band, Liveview, HPlus and more.
In How i hacked Xiaomi MiBand 2 to control it from LinuxGadgetbridge claims decent compatibility - does anyone have any experience?
https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/wiki/Amazfit-...
In Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky has joined Y Combinator as a partnerWas going to say this; you may be referring to https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge
The devices have the advantage of being very cheap; I've bought two for £15 each. I'm kind of surprised there isn't an open project on them. The chip is Dialog Semi with the usual Cortex M0: https://www.dialog-semiconductor.com/products/connectivity/b...
In Ask HN: Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable?Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge – Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
3 points · Open discussionGadgetbridge – free and cloudless replacement for Pebble's Android app
1 points · Open discussionI've been wondering about what happens if the next android update breaks the app.
For now I've found this open source app which allows you to use your pebble (and mi bands) without the vendor's app.
https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge
In Pebble's next stepYet again, open-source to the rescue.
Current pebble users should look into Gadgetbridge[1].
Wrist computer enthusiasts trying to avoid future bricks should seek out and support projects like AsteroidOS[2].
[1]https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/
[2]http://asteroidos.org
In Pebble's next stepSomebody pointed this out to me the other day:
https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge
I've not looked into it yet, but it is described as:
"A free and cloudless replacement for your gadget vendors' closed source Android applications. Pebble and Mi Band supported."
The feature list seems substantial. So hopefully we'll be able to continue to use our pebbles for some time.
In Pebble's next stepExtremely sad. Especially when they were offered $750 million by Citizen not long ago.
I've found the watches to be a joy to use, to develop for and the community is sensational. I have no hopes it'll survive as is with Fitbit.
If you have a Pebble and are involved in any way in it's development, I strongly recommend you have a look at Gadgetbridge https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge
In Fitbit is reportedly buying Pebble for around $40MShameless plug: on android you can use gadgetbridge ( https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge ). Supports pebble (and miband) and is a complete replacement of the official app (you can setup the pebble after unboxing, upgrade firmwares, install apps and language packs).
Functionalities are only limited by the lack of the internet access permission - it was left out on purpose - so things like voice dictation and some apps/watchfaces that need network access do not work.
It is available on fdroid if you don't want to build it yourself!
In Pebble 4.0 Apps and Firmware ReleasedEven better is Gadgetbridge (available on F-droid): https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge
It's not as slick as the official app, but requires much less in the way of permissions and is more flexible.
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