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Gadgetbridge 0.32.0: Casio GB-6900B and per-device alarms

Gadgetbridge 0.32.0 has been released and is already on F-Droid!

The highlight of this release are are initial support for Casio GB-6900B (contributed by Andreas Böhler) and per-device alarms.

Per-device alarms also means that you can use the maximum number of alarms you device supports, no longer limited to three.

The rest of changes are mainly bugfixes and minor improvements.

This release took a bit longer than usual, since some core members where busy with other projects, like working on Codeberg, a new non-profit hosting and collaboration platform, where Gadgetbridge also moved to.

Gadgetbridge 0.31.0: No more duplicate notifications

Gadgetbridge 0.31.0 has been tagged today and will show up on F-Droid (hopefully) soon.

The highlight of this release are countermeasures against duplicate and re-occurring notifications. This happened with modern chat applications when having multiple conversations at once. For some Gadgetbridge even became unusable because of that.

On the Pebble front, we also have some good news: Wearable actions that are attached to notifications are now all sent to the pebble (not only reply actions). That means you can interact better from your Pebble with some Apps.

Gadgetbridge 0.29.0: Support for ID115 and Lenovo Watch 9!

Gadgetbridge 0.29.0 has been tagged today and will show up on F-Droid (hopefully) soon.

The highlight of this release is initial support for the ID115 (Contributed by Vadim Kaushan) and Lenovo Watch 9 (contributed by "maxirnililan"). Many thanks to both of you!

We also fixed a lot of bugs and added new features for Mi Band 3, Amazfit Bip, Amazfit Cor and NO1 F11. Feature-wise, most notable is initial music control support for the Amazfit Cor. We expect that this will also become available on the Amazfit Bip later, but currently it seems to be unsupported by the current Bip firmware.

Gadgetbridge 0.28.0: ZeTime and Mi Band 3 support!

Gadgetbridge 0.28.0 has just been tagged and will show up on F-Droid soon.

The highlight of this release is initial experimental support for the ZeTime which was contributed by Sebastian Kranz. Thanks Sebastian!

We also managed to make the Mi Band 3 working with Gadgetbridge starting with 0.28.0 and most features seem to work well already.

Further notable enhancements have been done to the firmware detection code for Bip and Cor to fix problems with the new version scheme.

There might be one point release for the 0.28.x series, but we expect to release 0.29.0 soon, since there is more new device support in the pipeline :)

2000 stars and counting

Initiated in 2015 with the aim of providing pebble users freedom from the vendor servers (it's ironic that at the time of this writings the pebble servers will be shutdown in a few weeks, but I digress..), Gadgetbridge as of today:

• issued 129 releases (on f-droid.org)
• supports more than 10 wearable devices by several vendors
• is translated to more than 25 languages (on weblate.org)
• successfully appealed one DMCA take-down notice
• received more than 3300 commits to master branch and counts more than 330 forks (on github.com)
• included (merged) more than 150 pull requests (on github.com)
• has more than 100 contributors (committers, including translators)
• receives donations by over 30 patrons (on liberapay.com)
• last but not least: it reached 2000 stars (on github.com)

Gadgetbridge 0.26.0: free your workouts on the amazfit bip

Gadgetbridge 0.26.0 has just been tagged and will show up on F-Droid soon.

The highlight of this release is the added feature that allows to export the activities (workouts) recorded with the Amazfit Bip.

This feature is not perfect yet, but already works quite well. The most notable limitation is that only one track can be synced at a time.

In Gadgetbridge, push the running man icon in the device card and then press the sync floating action button or swipe down. Please note that only one workout will be fetched, you have to sync again to get the next activity and so on, automatic fetching will be added in a later release. Please join our efforts if you can contribute.

Gadgetbridge 0.23.0 released with support for LineageOS weather provider

Gadgetbridge 0.23.0 has just been tagged and will show up on F-Droid soon.

The highlight of this release is the addition of CyanogenMod/LineageOS weather provider support. This means that you no longer need the "Weather Notification" app to be able to see weather information on your wearable if you a LineageOS or CyanogenMod user.

Simply install a weather provider from https://download.lineageos.org/extras and set the weather location withing Gadgetbridge's settings.

Changelog for the 0.23.0 release

• Initial support for LineageOS/CyanogenMod weather provider
• Amazfit Bip/Cor: Support for current weather temperature
• Amazfit Bip/Cor: Display firmware version and type also for non-whitelisted firmware files

Gadgetbridge 0.22.0 finally merges Pebble background JS, supports new devices

Gadgetbridge 0.22.0 has just been tagged and will show up on F-Droid soon.

This is an exciting milestone, since finally our longstanding background javascript branch has been merged! When enabled, this allows pebble apps and watchfaces to execute the javascript code bundled with .pbw files to be executed on the phone. In practice this means that a lot of watchfaces will be able to display weather and phone battery status without Gadgetbridge needing special support for specific watchfaces.

In the future it might mean that watchfaces will also be able to fetch information from the internet by using an to-be-developed addon app for Gadgetbridge.

Gadgetbridge 0.21.3/0.21.4 with exciting news for Mi2/Bip users

Gadgetbridge 0.21.3 has been released on F-Droid (0.21.4 is also ready and will appear on F-Droid after the build and indexing process has finished)

One day after we found out that the Amazfit Bip firmware 0.0.9.14 (included in Mifit 3.1.0) had an English translation inside, we implemented support for switching the language and tagged 0.21.3 right away, making that the only (but important) change in that release.

Then only about 24h later we finally found a solution for bringing activity data parsing for newer Mi Band 2/Amazfit Bip firmwares on par with older firmwares. Thanks to everyone commenting in the issue tracker and describing their observations regaining their activity data! While fixing the code, we found and fixed another ancient issue that resulted in wrong activity data under some circumstances and affected all firmwares,

Gadgetbridge 0.21.0 adds support for two new devices

Gadgetbridge 0.21.0 (and 0.21.1) have been released a a few days ago. So this blog post is a bit late.

Less then one month after our last version bump, we bumped again since we had the opportunity to add TWO new devices though pull request from new contributors:

• NO.1 F1 support by Vitaly Svyastyn
• Teclast H30 support by Sami Alaoui

In addition, the release contains a lot of bugfixes and improvements for our already supported devices, like the Pebble and the Amazfit Bip.

Changelogs for the 0.21.x releases