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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 pracice 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 regaing their activity data! While fixing the code, we found and fixed another ancient issue that resulted in wrong activity data under some cirmcumstances 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 oppurtunity 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 realease 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

Beware of unknown APKs online

Il testo in italiano si trova in calce. Italian text follows.

It has been brought to our attention that several websites provide APKs of Gadgetbridge instead of linking to the official release on F-Droid

This is happening a lot lately thanks to Gadgetbridge being able to flash custom firmwares to the Amazfit Bip device.

We strongly advise against installing APKs that are not verifiably built from our sources and instead do the following:

• Install f-droid and use it to install Gadgetbridge. This ensures that your device will get all new releases of Gadgetbridge
• alternatively install the APK downloaded from the f-droid website.
• If you are a developer and would like to build from source, you can clone our repository

Gadgetbridge 0.20.0 adds Amazfit Bip support, project accepting donations now

Gadgetbridge 0.20.0 (and 0.20.1) have been tagged and will be on f-droid soon.

We are very excited about the release, since we now officially support the Amazfit Bip. Except for workout and importing GPS data, nearly all features are already working.

We also like to mention that we are accepting donations via Liberapay now. If you like Gadgetbridge, please consider donating in order to sustain Gadgetbridge's development.

Click on the Liberapay button below for more details!

Changelogs for the 0.20.x releases

Our DMCA takedown: a post-Mortem

This is a post-Mortem of the DMCA takedown notice that hit Gadgetbridge in June 2017, written by two core developers of the project.

First things first: We would like to thank all the people who sent us their support via mail, social networks, chat and other means.

As everyone does in this case, let's start with the:

tl;dr: We were surprised to have been hit by a DMCA takedown notice on Github. We decided to file a counter notice because we stand firm in our belief that no content in our repository ever violated US or EU laws including but not limited to the DMCA. We are happy the project is back online and available for the community.

Gadgetbridge repository reopened by Github

Today, Github finally reopened our repository including wiki, issues and all other content, since the 14 days waiting period, which started after they published our Counter Notice is over now.

We want to thank all the great people who supported us during the last five weeks!

The issue tracker is disabled on purpose for now, but will re-open it during the next few days!