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Gadgetbridge 0.43.0: Fossil Hybrid HR

Gadgetbridge 0.43.0 has been released and will be in F-Droid, god knows when. If she exists.

This release adds initial support for Fossil Hybrid HR. Again most of the work was contributed by Daniel Dakhno. Thanks Daniel! Unfortunately this device needs server side pairing with the official Fossil app once. The procedure we used to obtain the device specific secret key is complicated and described briefly in our wiki. There might be other easier methods by "cracking" the app but we refrained from trying. Please the wiki read before you decide this otherwise very nice device.

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Gadgetbridge 0.42.0: iTag support

Gadgetbridge 0.42.0 has been released and is already build by F-Droid.

This release adds initial support support for "iTag" devices, contributed by Taavi Eomäe. Lacking any compatible devices, we cannot really tell you anything about it though ;)

Apart from iTag support, Taavi also contributed various other small fixes and improvements to this release. Thanks!

For user-facing changes since the last blog post, check the following list:

Version 0.42.0
  • Initial iTag support
  • Fix indefinitely lasting bluetooth scans when location permission has not been granted
  • Try to stop incoming VoIP call notification when the call is answered
  • Vectorize some icons and add a new Mi Scale 2 icon
  • Mi Band 4: Make high MTU optional, fixes problems on some phones
  • ZeTime: Fix probably broken support (duplicate id used by Fossil)
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Gadgetbridge 0.41.0: JYou Y5 Support

Gadgetbridge 0.41.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon.

This release adds support for the JYou Y5 and improved button actions for Mi Band 2 And Amazfit Bip.

JYou Y5 support was contributed by Pavel Elagin in a very old PR we never merged. It was recently found and polished by Da Pa and finally merged! Thank you guys!

Improved button action support was contributed by vanous! It now much easier to setup this feature for music control, and long presses are also supported. Thanks you vanous!

Speaking of the Amazfit Bip, you should check out BipOS which is a patched version of the original firmware which adds the ability to create own apps! Unfortunately depends on non-free tools (free as in beer).

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Move to codeberg.org complete, Gadgetbridge 0.40.0: Bangle.js Fossil Q Hybrid

As announced almost a year ago, we finally completely to Codeberg on 10th December 2019. Our GitHub repo is archived now, but we will resync it from time to time, so we stay visible there, no interaction will be possible on GitHub though. Please create a Codeberg account, if you want to continue interacting with us. We imported all old issues and PRs. And also assigned comments of GitHub users to their codeberg.org account where known. If you create your codeberg.org account later, we can still re-assign these to your account.

Donations via Liberapay re-opened

You can finally donate to Gadgetbridge again!

After more than a year we bit the bullet and re-enabled donations on liberapay by complying with what had to be done to make that work. We were already almost dried up and were unable to buy devices we wanted to support. To make Gadgetbridge even better please consider to donate!

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Gadgetbridge 0.38.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

We added initial support the Amazfit GTR, but just like with the Mi Band 4 and Amazfit Bip Lite support, unfortunately this sounds better than it is.

WE CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS DEVICE TO OUR USERS, SINCE YOU HAVE TO INSTALL MI FIT SOMEWHERE, CREATE AN ACCOUNT AND GET A DEVICE SPECIFIC AUTH KEY FROM MI FIT ON A ROOTED PHONE

Other methods then the above might exist, but in the end you need Mi Fit with an account once, then get hold of your secret auth key, and input that in Gadgetbridge.

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Gadgetbridge 0.37.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

One highlight is Makibes HR3 support was contributed by Lukas Schwichtenberg. Thank you Lukas for the great work.

We also managed to support the Amazfit Bip Lite, but just like with the Mi Band 4 support, unfortunately this sounds better than it is.

WE CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS DEVICE TO OUR USERS, SINCE YOU HAVE TO INSTALL MI FIT SOMEWHERE, CREATE AN ACCOUNT AND GET A DEVICE SPECIFIC AUTH KEY FROM MI FIT ON A ROOTED PHONE

Other methods then the above might exist, but in the end you need Mi Fit with an account once, then get hold of your secret auth key, and input that in Gadgetbridge.

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Gadgetbridge 0.36.0: Many small fixes and improvements and a new device!

Gadgetbridge 0.36.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

This release accumulates a lot of fixes and small improvements and a few minor new features. Many of which came in with the help of community contributions, special thanks to @vanous who really took a deep dive into Gadgetbridge! There are some contributions which did not make it into 0.36.0 but will be in 0.36.1 which will follow soon.

Also LineageOS 16 weather provider support is back. We lost support after LineageOS had to change some internal naming from cyanogenmod. But integrating their SDK by copying a jar (their recommended way) was never an option for us. Now we bit the bullet and used some dirty tricks like reflection and copying parts of the SDK source files. Not beautiful - but it works without the jar.

Gadgetbridge 0.35.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

The only change in the major release is Mi Band 4 support, unfortunately this sounds better than it is.

WE CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS DEVICE TO OUR USERS, SINCE YOU HAVE TO INSTALL MI FIT SOMEWHERE, CREATE AN ACCOUNT AND GET A DEVICE SPECIFIC AUTH KEY FROM MI FIT ON A ROOTED PHONE

Other methods then the above might exist, but in the end you need Mi Fit with an account once, then get hold of your secret auth key, and input that in Gadgetbridge.

Gadgetbridge 0.34.0: Per-device settings, finally

Gadgetbridge 0.34.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

The highlight of this release is a big refactoring of device settings for Mi Band/Amazfit devices.

Since we support an increasing number of Mi Band/Amazfit devices which almost all have unique feature, it became increasingly confusing how to configure them. Take the Amazfit Cor for example. Some of the settings were in "Mi Band / Amazfit settings", others in "Amazfit Cor settings", and finally some in "Amazfit Bip" settings (historically,because the Bip introduced new features which the later released "Amazfit Cor" also has).