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Huawei / Honor gadgets

List of supported Huawei and Honor gadgets:

List of gadgets

Supported features

Support for Huawei and Honor devices was added in pull request #2462.

Note that not all devices have support for all features.

  • Set settings
    • Time
    • Language
    • Do not disturb (not supported by all devices)
    • Inactivity warnings
    • Rotate wrist to switch info (not supported by all devices)
    • Activate display on wrist lift
    • Notification on bluetooth disconnect
    • User information (height, weight, age, year of birth, gender)
    • Enable measuring skin temperature (not supported by all devices)
    • Enable and calibrate stress measurement (not supported by all devices)
  • Alarms
    • Including smart alarm (not supported by all devices)
    • Retrieving alarms that were changed on the device1
  • HR zones (static, configuration not yet implemented)
  • Running Pace zones (static, configuration not yet implemented)
  • Battery level synchronization
  • Show notifications (has some bugs)
  • Notification pictures
  • Canned replies for notifications (not supported by all devices)
  • Call notifications, with accept/reject (has some bugs on some devices, see this for more information)
  • Music and volume control
  • Activity synchronization
    • Sleep synchronization
      • Starting from Gadgetbridge 0.87.0, TruSleep sleep stages are supported for more recent devices (HarmonyOS 5 and above)
      • For older devices with TruSleep, only begin/end time is synced, no sleep stages
    • Step count synchronization
    • Calories synchronization
    • Heart Rate synchronization (not supported by all devices)
    • Resting Heart Rate synchronization (not supported by all devices)
    • SpO2 synchronization (not supported by all devices)
    • Stress synchronization (not supported by all devices)
    • Temperature synchronization (not supported by all devices)
    • HRV synchronization (not supported by all devices)
    • Emotions (not supported by all devices, no UI)
  • Workout synchronization Which data is actually present depends on device and workout type.
    • HR for workout
    • speed
    • step rate
    • cadence
    • step length
    • ground contact time
    • impact
    • swing angle
    • fore foot landings
    • mid foot landings
    • back foot landings
    • eversion angle
    • swim style (swimming, per segment)
    • strokes (swimming, per segment)
    • distance (swimming, per segment)
    • swolf (swimming, per segment)
    • stroke rate (swimming, per segment)
    • calories
    • cycling power
    • altitude
    • GPS track
  • Find my phone (must be paired as companion device)
  • Weather support (not supported by all devices)
    • Current weather
    • Hourly forecast
    • Daily forecast
    • Sunrise/set
    • Moonrise/set
    • Phase of the moon
  • Sending GPS from the phone to the band during workouts2
  • Uploading watch faces
  • Remote camera shutter support (limited functionality)
  • Uploading music over Bluetooth (not supported by all devices)
  • Calendar sync support (not supported by all devices)
  • Contact sync support (not supported by all devices)
  • Basic support for installing applications (limited functionality, not supported by all devices)
  • Basic support for firmware updates
  • Screenshots (not supported by all devices)
  • User goals (steps, calories burnt, fat burn time, standing time)
  • Goal reminders
  • Upload notification app icons
  • Sync contacts
  • View heart rate zones and limits
  • Step-by-step navigation
  • Configure health features (experimental)
    • Pulse wave arrhythmia activation and control (no sync)
    • Sleep breathing awareness for new devices (no sync)

See the Specifics for Huawei and Honor devices for an overview of how the Huawei/Honor devices differ from other devices in Gadgetbridge.

Known issues

Authentication key negotiation failed

If you connected to the official app and are now seeing a "Authentication key negotiation failed" error, please see the Huawei/Honor Pairing page to pair without factory reset.

Open issues

Do not forget to check any other open issues in the project repository.

See the Specifics for Huawei and Honor devices for more details.

Not supported (yet)

  • Sleep stages for TruSleep for devices older than HarmonyOS 5
  • If your watch supports sleep without TruSleep enabled, it will show light/deep sleep when TruSleep is disabled. Not all watches support this.
  • Tidal information support
  • Starting a workout from GB
  • Real time data
  • Band info screen selection (choice & order)
  • Allow the user to set up their own HR zones

Note that this list is incomplete.

  1. Only retrieved/synchronized on activity or workout synchronization. ↩

  2. We had hoped this would enable workouts like "Outdoor Cycling", but that is not working yet. ↩