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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!

Gadgetbridge 0.47.0: Pinetime-JF, big update for Huami devices

Gadgetbridge 0.47.0 has been tagged and will appear on F-Droid soon! As always, this can take a few days.

This release finally has initial support for Pinetime-JF (JF Firmware for the PineTime watch). You can check progress of the JF Firmware here. This initial support is not really usable, it only allows setting the time, displaying PineTime's software and hardware revisions, and seeing notification titles on the watch (without vibration). As the firmware improves, we plan to support new upstream feature as soon as we can.

Gadgetbridge 0.46.0: Mi Band 5 and TLW64 support

Gadgetbridge 0.46.0 has been release and after a whole week of waiting it landed in F-Droid.

This release, which adds TLW64 support contributed by Erik Bloß, also has support for the new Mi Band 5, which is basically runnig on the Mi Band 4 code.

On the Huami front there are fixes for GTR/GTS activity data on newer firmware version. There seems to be extra data which we ignore for now to make the current code run with it. In the future we will look at making use of the new data which unfortunately would need a new database schema.

Gadgetbridge 0.44.0: Initial WatchX(Plus) support and much more

Gadgetbridge 0.44.0 has been released! Let's play the F-Droid waiting game.

This release finally merges support for WatchX(Plus). Support for this watch has been contributed to "ksiwczynski", "mkusnierz" and finally "mamutcho", who also did the final polishing before official inclusion. We do not own the device ourselves, but we believe it works ;)

Thanks to a donation of a brand new ZeTime (THANK YOU!), I could finally test the state of ZeTime support and fix some long standing issues, plus add support for rejecting calls from the watch. There will be probably further fixes in the next release.

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 suport 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.

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)

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).

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!