As Gadgetbridge continues to grow, so does the community of people contributing to it, and the range of tools they use. Recent advances in AI-assisted software development and reverse engineering have created new opportunities for contributors, but they have also raised important questions about code ownership, legality, licensing, quality, and long-term maintenance.
This post introduces our new contribution policy and the expectations we have for everyone who contributes to the project.
We're excited to announce the release of Gadgetbridge 0.92.0! This release comes with quite a few new supported devices, a handful of new features and the usual steady stream of fixes and improvements. Of special note are a new device-agnostic FIT activity export and activity upload to Endurain and Wanderer.
This release adds support for various new devices spanning smartwatches, fitness trackers, earbuds, and a blood pressure monitor. Fossil Q gets a significant set of new features, Garmin integration gains richer activity data and waypoint support, and Health Connect sync receives several fixes. General additions include auto GPX export, FossWallet support, and improved sleep tracking.
This release adds support for several new watches and trackers, improves workout and chart handling across multiple devices, and delivers a large batch of Health Connect and stability fixes.
It also contains many reliability and day-to-day usability improvements: fewer sync edge cases, better activity summaries, and many targeted fixes for Garmin, Huawei/Honor, Zepp OS, Pebble, CMF, and Xiaomi devices.
This release introduces two big new features: Health Connect and internet access! Wait... Sharing health data?!? Internet access?!? Isn't Gadgetbridge fully private and offline? Yes it is! Now, however, you can opt in to allowing your devices to access the internet in a way that is fully under your control. Read on for more details!
As usual, this release also contains support for many new devices, varying from smartwatches and bike computers to another solar energy storage system, and several smaller features and bug fixes.
The latest Gadgetbridge release, version 0.88.0, brings a number of improvements, new device support, and some important bug fixes. While the update isn't a game-changer, it certainly enhances the app's reliability and broadens its compatibility with wearables and fitness devices. If you're a regular user of Gadgetbridge, this update will improve your experience with smoother connections, better functionality, and expanded device support.
This minor update resolved an issue with parsing weightlifting workouts on Garmin watches. It also marks the first release where users of the main F-Droid repository can install our self-signed build.
We are happy to announce the release of Gadgetbridge 0.86.0 and the follow-up bugfix release 0.86.1!
This release brings initial support for a wide range of new devices, including wearables, headphones, and fitness trackers. Users of Da Fit-based smartwatches will be pleased to see first-class support for popular models such as the Colmi V72 and V89. We have also added support for several new Garmin devices, Amazfit Active 2 NFC, and the Polar H10 heart rate monitor.
On the audio front, this release introduces support for various earbuds including the Huawei Freebuds 6, Realme Buds Air 5 Pro, Oppo Enco Buds2, and more.
Our work on Zepp OS continues, with improvements to workout parsing, moon phase icons, watchface uploads, and better time setting across time zones. Huawei device integration also sees several improvements, such as firmware update handling and better error reporting during workout sync.
Notably, the Bangle.js integration has been enhanced with improved network handling and support for version 2 weather APIs.
This release also adds experimental support for AAWireless and Huawei Watch Fit 4 / 4 Pro.
As you can imagine, the team behind Gadgetbridge is motivated to use and spread the use of Free Software even in areas that are only tangential to the main scope of the project. Just to name a few examples, we are using Liberapay to collect donations (to all our donors: Thank you!), and the project's initiator even created the probably most widely known publicly available free software Git (and more!) hosting in Europe run by a collective.
It is in this spirit that we share our experience in managing and running a large public end-to-end encrypted (e2ee) room on matrix.org. Please be aware that this post is primarily intended for a technical audience and not for Gadgetbridge users.