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 …

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 …

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 …

Quite unexpectedly, we have tagged and F-Droid has already published one more update: 0.64.0, making it the 24th release of this year. Besides many "small" additions and improvements, this release also adds support for three new devices: two new earphones, Bose QC35 and Sony WF-SP800N, plus there is …

This might be the last release for 2021, but it is a big one!

This release adds support for two new earphones, the Sony WH-100XM3 and Galaxy Buds Live and also for two another watches of the Casio family, the GBD-200 and for GBD-100 (support of the GBD-100 is untested …

During this year's summer, in August, a long-standing issue was being dealt with of how time and time-zones are handled in Gadgetbridge for Huami devices. This resulted in a (finally) correct time to be sent to the watches, without time-zone related work around and guessing. Unfortunately, after the switch from …

One of the core team members has provided an initial support for true wireless earbuds Nothing Ear(1). This is the first support of this kind of device in our codebase and it is a perfect fit for an app like Gadgetbridge. Many thanks to Daniele!

Special maintenance tender loving …

Gadgetbridge 0.60.0 has been tagged and should hit F-Droid in a few days!

As the biggest feature, this release adds support for FitPro devices, which has been implemented by Petr Vaněk. The implementation was tested using an M6 band, but other devices which also work with the FitPro …

Thanks to x29a, Gadgetbridge 0.59.0 now supports the open source custom firmware for the SMA Q2 done by Emeryth over at github.com. The devices features an always on reflective display and four buttons. For those who want a fully open source experience including the the firmware on …

One of the most missing and wanted features of Gadgetbridge for sports enthusiasts with a Miband (or other Huami device) is to track a sports activity which requests a connection to the original app, to provide GPS tracking. At this point, Gadgetbridge does not have this possibility and as a …