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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 …

Gadgetbridge 0.38.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

We added initial support the Amazfit GTR, but just like with the Mi Band 4 and Amazfit Bip Lite support, unfortunatly this sounds better than it is.

WE CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS DEVICE TO OUR USERS, SINCE YOU …

Gadgetbridge 0.37.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

One highlight is Makibes HR3 support was contributed by Lukas Schwichtenberg. Thank you Lukas for the great work.

We also managed to support the Amazfit Bip Lite, but just like with the Mi Band 4 support, unfortunatly …

Gadgetbridge 0.36.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

This release accumulates a lot of fixes and small improvements and a few minor new features. Many of which came in with the help of community contributions, special thanks to @vanous who really took a deep dive …

Gadgetbridge 0.35.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

The only change in the major release is Mi Band 4 support, unfortunatly this sounds better than it is.

WE CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS DEVICE TO OUR USERS, SINCE YOU HAVE TO INSTALL MI FIT SOMEWHERE, CREATE AN …

Gadgetbridge 0.34.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

The highlight of this release is a big refactoring of device settings for Mi Band/Amazfit devices.

Since we support an increasing number of Mi Band/Amazfit devices which almost all have unique feature, it became increasingly …

Gadgetbridge 0.33.0 has been realeased and will appear on F-Droid soon!

The highlight of this release is that we finally have per-device settings, which are currently used for storing per-device security keys on all Mi Band, Bip and Cor models. This in turn fixes a long-standing security issue …

Gadgetbridge 0.32.0 has been realeased 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 …

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 …

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 …