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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …