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Gadgetbridge
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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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0Explicit recommenders
4.6KGitHub stars
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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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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year16 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-09-24 05:57:15 UTC to 2022-11-04 07:17:07 UTC.

02462015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
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. Download 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. List of changes 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.
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