Releases¶

Gadgetbridge 0.57.0: Initial limited Mi Band 6 support, Huami fixes

Thanks to a PR, we recently merged, Gadgetbridge 0.57.0 is the first release which supports the new Mi Band 6. We call support limited, since it does not yet support flashing the firmware or watchfaces and not everything is tested yet. But thanks to your donations we were able to order one, which will (once it arrives) enable us to test and improve device support!

This release also fixes flashing watchfaces on GTR2/GTS2 and probably other newer Huami devices, and adds support for flashing the new AGPS bundles which seem to be mandatory for GTR/GTS/GTR2/GTS2/Bip S with updated firmware versions. While you previously had to flash the GPS almanac and CEP files, with the new bundle format (UIHH), it is possible to flash all needed AGPS files in one go. To obtain the files, we recommend using huafetcher. If you want to play with alternative solutions, we also published code which packs UUIH AGPS bundles here.

Gadgetbridge 0.56.1: Many improvements in support for Amazfit Neo and an official Mastodon account

This release is mainly containing culmination of work done on support for the Amazfit Neo. That includes support for firmware updating, notifications and also settings. Do note, that after updating the device to 1.1.2.52 with Gadgetbridge, there might be a strange connection issue. What you can do is: keep the watch in Gadgetbridge but remove it from paired devices in Android, then re-add again in Gadgetbridge (although it was still there).

We have enabled ongoing notifications for two popular FLOSS sports tracking apps, OpenTracks and FitoTrack. This allows you to observe notifications of an ongoing activity tracked by these apps right on your wrist. Normally, we block ongoing notifications because these could be emitted many times per second and thus cause fast battery drain and also other possible issues. It is therefore recommended to set the Settings → Minimum time between notifications to a few seconds. You can of course always block notifications of these apps completely via the regular Notification blacklist.

Gadgetbridge 0.56: UM25 voltage meter support, Fossil Hybrid HR improvements and more!

Only one week between releases - and again thanks to contributors, still an impressive changelog. We are currently waiting for F-Droid to sign and publish.

HM25 voltage meters

Daniel Dakhno has contributed initial support for HM25 voltage meters. This was a longstanding PR which we almost forgot about, sorry and thanks, Daniel!

Fossil Hybrid HR improvements

Arjan Schrijver has contributed various improvements for Fossil HR specific code, like fixing missing menu headers in Gadgetbridge and disabling feature that cannot be used on later firmware revisions.

Gadgetbridge 0.55. Better InifiTime support, new features for all devices

This is the first in many releases without any new Huami/Xiaomi device supported, but still deserved a version bump from 0.54.x to 0.55.0, as we added multiple new device independent features!

Battery logging

People were wondering how their battery discharges over time, so we started logging it since release 0.54. There was just no finished graph to show the discharge over time. This is now ready for release and part of 0.55.0. Just tap on the battery icon in the main activity (aka "control center") and have a look!

Gadgetbridge releases 0.53.0, 0.54.0 and 0.54.1: Initial support for even more Amazfit devices, Zepp E and Wasp-os

First month of the new year 2021 has delivered tons of new devices. We are happy to see new people stepping up and providing the initial support for these watches:

• Wasp-os - Daniel Thompson
• Amazfit Neo - xaos
• Amazfit GTS 2 Mini - Andreas Shimokawa
• Huami Zepp E - Andrew Watkins
• Amazfit GTR 2e - Jochen S
• Amazfit GTS 2e - Andreas Shimokawa
• Amazfit X - Stefan Bora

Many thanks to all contributors!

While new devices' support is flowing in, this doesn't mean that all features and functions of these newly added devices are working, but the initial support typically already provides many important aspects required for day to day usage. It also offers a very convenient way to look at these devices in more detail and help to improve their support further. These Gadgetbridge releases (0.53.0, 0.54.0 and 0.54.1) also contain many small and big fixes and improvements all over the place :).

Gadgetbridge 0.52.0: Initial support for Amazfit Bip U Pro

Christmas holidays was a good time to relax, recharge and take some time off. After that, commits and pull requests started flowing in with various fixes and improvements. One of the contributions has brought support for another variant of Amazfit watches:

• Amazfit Bip U Pro contributed by DanialHanif - thank you!

Also the Amazfit GTS2, which was previously supported in theory but was practically unusable due to a pairing bug, should now work properly.

For some reason, data in Weather notification sometimes provides incomplete data, which resulted in weather updates not being sent at all to the smart device. This behavior is now handled properly in this Gadgetbridge release.

Gadgetbridge 0.51.0: Amazfit Bip U, Amazfit Verge Lite

We do not know why Huami releases so many new devices every year. These have become too much to buy all of them, but it is always nice to have pull requests from the community, which happened for the Bip U and Verge Lite during this cycle. Thank you!

But there is a lot more to this release!

Apart from the usual bug fixes and tweaks, we overhauled the daily stats widget completely which is now much better looking and more functional.

Also device code contributors have pushed improvements, most notably the Casio GBX-100 and Bangle.js which now support activity data recording.

Gadgetbridge 0.50.0: Initial support for Casio GBX-100

This release comes just two weeks after the previous version bump, but brings a support for a new device:

• Casio GBX-100 contributed by Andreas Böhler.

Another important new feature in this release is support for flashing watchfaces for the Amazfit/Mi Band 5. These devices support up to three custom watch faces plus two factory ones. Even though it looks easy then you know how, it took a lot of time and effort to analyze and implement this correctly.

On the user interface side, the Sports Activities got their Dashboard view revamped to better match the design of the recently added Activity List Dashboard. And, utilizing all the work done on our new sortable type of preference widget, the Charts Tabs can now be selectively enabled/disabled and also arranged as preferred by each user, independently for each device.

Gadgetbridge 0.49.0: Lots of improvements - and even more Huami devices supported!

Notes from under the bridge

Gadgetbridge 0.49.0 has been released, closing up yet another interesting period of development.It is already available on F-Droid!

New supported devices

Initial support for few new Huami devices has been added:

• Amazfit Bip S Lite
• Amazfit GTR 2/GTS 2

Thanks to contributors who own these devices and were able test and integrate the required changes into Gadgetbridge. Adding a new without us having access to the physical device can be hard, so any effort is appreciated. To make new developer's lives easier, the New Device Tutorial has been improved a lot, providing good guidance in adding a new device, storing activity data and also providing preference interface and storage.

Gadgetbridge 0.48.0: Three completely new devices supported

Gadgetbridge 0.48.0 has been tagged and will appear on F-Droid soon! As always, this can take a few days.

Six code contributors and twenty one translators have contributed more then 130 commits to the latest release of Gadgetbridge, bringing support for three new devices:

• The Sony SWR12 bands
• Lefun Smart Bands
• Nut

The Nut devices use the Nordic firmware update protocol (DFU) by using the official nordic library. This enabled us to also use it for other devices like the like the PineTime (InfiniTime), and probably more devices in the future. PineTime InfitiTime firmware's music control, being recently improved, also got improved support in Gadgetbridge. All of the work mentioned in this paragraph was contributed by Taavi Eomäe. Thanks Taavie!