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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 …

Amazfit T-Rex Pro has been added to list of supported devices, thanks to a PR by GeekosaurusR3x who added the initial support for this device. Thanks!

We have fixed an issue which was causing incorrect step and sleep count for people in countries who use timezones with 30 minutes off …

Thanks to a PR, we recently merged, Gadgetbridge 0.57.0 is the first release which supports the new Mi Band 6. We call support limited, since it does not yet support flashing the firmware or watchfaces and not everything is tested yet. But thanks to your donations we were …

This release is mainly containing culmination of work done on support for the Amazfit Neo. That includes support for firmware updating, notifications and also settings. Do note, that after updating the device to 1.1.2.52 with Gadgetbridge, there might be a strange connection issue. What you can do …