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Gadgetbridge 0.75.0: Native OsmAnd support

Again after more than 1.5 month, a new Gadgetbridge release finally is ready! The F-Droid black box is still black though. :P

Traditionally we bump the release by a non-point release when support for a new device gets added or a big new code feature gets added, this time the latter is the case! We finally merged native OsmAnd support, a branch was started by me nearly two years ago but only recently picked up and fixed by José. PineTime/InfiniTime and bangle.js are the first watches that add support for making use of navigation instructions passed to devices by Gadgetbridge. There could be potential support for Pebble and Fossil/Skagen HR via watchapps in the future.

Gadgetbridge 0.74.0: Amazfit GTR 3 Pro, Sony WH-1000XM5, and a lot of improvements!

After more than 1.5 month, finally a new Gadgetbridge release is ready!

On the new device front we have support for one new Huami device, the Amazfit GTR 3 Pro and another Sony Headphone, the WH-1000XM5.

Mostly contributed by José, who also did the Sony WH-1000XM5 support, we have tons of new features and improvements for various Zepp OS based devices (the newer Huami devices). For example The GTR4/GTS4 devices can now do bluetooth based phone calls though the watch. There is just too much new stuff, so please just read the ChangeLog at the end of this blog post.

Gadgetbridge 0.72.0: Lot of new devices and rewritten device discovery

It took unusually long to get this out, but we tried to make it before Christmas, so here it is: Gadgetbridge 0.72.0

And since it is already out on F-Droid, todays blog post will be written by ChatGPT to save time. :O

Q: Can you please write a blog post about a gadgetbridge release? Here is the Changelog...

Gadgetbridge is a free, open-source application that allows users to communicate with and manage their wearable devices. The latest release, version 0.72.0, brings a host of new features and improvements to the application.

Gadgetbridge 0.71.x: Initial support for Amazfit GTR 3 and SuperCars (Shell Racing Cars)

After some delays and fine-tuning of the release, next version of Gadgetbridge is now out with whole lot of changes. Interestingly, it is not 0.71 but already 0.71.3 as of the writing of this blog post.

Initial support for Amazfit GTR 3 and SuperCars (Shell Racing Cars)

Initial support for Amazfit GTR 3 was added, which is very similar to GTS 3, and Mi Band 7 see the wiki page here for more information.

@vanous has added support for an entirely new class of devices - a Bluetooth remote controlled car models! If you own a Shell Racing Car, please give it a try ;)

Gadgetbridge 0.70.0: Initial support for Amazfit GTS 3, for Fossil Hybrid Gen6 and for Flipper Zero

Initial support for Amazfit GTS 3, for Fossil Hybrid Gen6 and for Flipper Zero

Initial support for Amazfit GTS 3 has been provided by Codeberg user sedy89. This is based on the recent addition of support for the Mi Band 7 and thus has similar set of features and limitations, see the wiki page here.

Daniel Dakhnod has provided support for the Fossil Hybrid Gen6 watches, extending the list of supported Fossil Hybrid devices even more. Daniel has also worked on support for the Flipper Zero, an open source multi-tool for pentesters and geeks.

Gadgetbridge 0.69.0: Initial support for Mi Band 7, Binary Sensor Service and for Fossil 38mm

Our small group of Gadgetbridge contributors has been very busy in the past several weeks and the changelog of this new release really shows it. Today, Gadgetbridge is bringing support for some new devices together with features, bug fixes and improvements to existing devices and the app itself.

Initial support for Mi Band 7, for devices that use Binary Sensor Service and for Fossil/Skagen Hybrid HR 38mm watches

Mi Band 7 has been out and José Rebelo has worked hard to bring initial support for this new smart band. The device support is at the moment still somewhat limited but it is getting better over time. See this wiki page for details about currently supported features and also for list of known issues.

Gadgetbridge 0.68.0: Multiple device connections - a huge release!

After almost two months of work since the last version, we finally released one of the biggest releases of all time!

Multiple device connections

Gadgetbridge could traditionally only connect to one device at one moment. That was mostly enough since not many people would need to connect to two smart watches at the same time. But Gadgetbridge has expanded, and there are a lot of non-smartwatch devices supported by now. For example smart headphones with various settings or the Mijia e-paper watch. If you wanted to connect to those devices, you always needed to disconnect your daily driver smart band/watch first. Thanks to Daniel Dakhnod who worked on multiple device connection support for over a month, we finally felt that it was time to merge his branch. We assume there are still some problems and regressions when more than one device is connected at a time - so consider this experimental and please report bugs into our bug tracker.

Gadgetbridge 0.67.0: Initial Support for Sony WF-1000XM3 and Galaxy Buds Pro

After two months of development since the last version, we have yet another very interesting feature rich release to talk about. Development felt a bit slow at the beginning but looking at the changelog, there are many additions, improvements and also some newly supported devices.

New devices

Lets start with new support for another two headphones - Sony WF-1000XM3 and Galaxy Buds Pro. While it may feel like "yet another very similar device(s)", each of them required careful work on dissecting and implementing the communication protocols. Big thanks to José R. for work on the Sony headphones and in the case of the Galaxy Buds Pro, also big thank you to two very helpful users - owners of the headphones - who were able to gather the data and help with providing the necessary low level communication info that was required for implementing support for this device.

Gadgetbridge 0.66.0: Initial support for Casio GBD-H1000 and Hama Fit Track 1900

Support for two new devices has been added - the Casio GBD-H1000 and Hama Fit Track 1900. Both of these additions use existing device implementations and add a new name of the device as chosen by the vendor, allowing more people to use their devices with Gadgetbridge.

Arjan Schrijver worked on a new OpenTracks Controller which allows tight integration between Gadgetbridge and OpenTracks. The main idea is to be able to use OpenTracks as a source of data during workouts (running, walking...). OpenTracks can be started from a device (watch) connected to Gadgetbridge, activity is tracked in OpenTracks and OpenTracks provides information about activity duration, speed and so on to Gadgetbridge, who sends it back to the watch. At the moment, only the Fossil Hybrid HR provides full integration into it's Workout app. Huami devices (Mibands, Amazfit) with a button that allows usage of the Button actions can use this via a new Action: Fitness app tracking start. Current limitations of this OpenTracks Controller are:

Gadgetbridge 0.65.0: Initial support for Amazfit Pop/Pro watch and for Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones

Support for Amazfit Pop/Pro has been added. This watch seems to be almost identical to Amazfit Bip U/Pro but it has different firmware so we have separated the device support to make sure things work correctly in the future. Another new device are the over the ear wireless headphones Sony WH-1000XM4.

The overall Sony Headphones implementation has been worked on a lot and got improvements to initialization, noise canceling and more.

Fossil Hybrid HR support has also received several updates and improvements.