Gadgetbridge

Gadgetbridge is an Android (4.4+) Application which will allow you to use your Pebble or Mi Band without the vendor's closed source application and without the need to create an account and transmit any of your data to the vendor's servers.

Features (Pebble)

Incoming calls notification and display (caller, phone number)
Outgoing call display
Reject/hangup calls
SMS notification (sender, body)
K-9 Mail notification support (sender, subject, preview)
Support for generic notificaions (above filtered out)
Music playback info (artist, album, track). Apollo and CM 12.1 Music App supported.
Music control: play/pause, next track, previous track, volume up, volume down
List and remove installed apps/watchfaces
Install .pbw files
Install firmware from .pbz files

How to use (Pebble)

Pair your Pebble through Gadgetbridge's Discovery Activity or the Android Bluetooth Settings
Start Gadgetbridge, tap on the device you want to connect to
To test, choose "Debug" from the menu and play around

Features (Mi Band)

Mi Band notifications (LEDs + vibration) for
- Discovery and pairing
- Incoming calls
- SMS received
- K-9 mails received
- Generic Android notifications
Synchronize the time to the Mi Band
Display firmware version and battery state

How to use (Mi Band)

When starting Gadgetbridge and no device is visible, it will automatically attempt to discover and pair your Mi Band. Alternatively you can invoke this manually via the menu button. It will ask you for some personal info that appears to be needed for proper steps calculation on the band. If you do not provide these, some hardcoded default "dummy" values will be used instead.

When your Mi Band starts to vibrate and blink with all three LEDs during the pairing process, tap it quickly a few times in a row to confirm the pairing with the band.

Configure other notifications as desired
Go back to the "Gadgetbridge" Activity
Tap the "MI" item to connect if you're not connected yet.
To test, chose "Debug" from the menu and play around

Known Issues:

Android 4.4+ only, we can only change this by not handling generic notifications or by using AccessibiltyService. Don't know if it is worth the hassle.
The initial connection to a Mi Band sometimes takes a little patience. Try to connect a few times, wait, and try connecting again. This only happens until you have "bonded" with the Mi Band, i.e. until it knows your MAC address. This behavior may also only occur with older firmware versions.

Contribute

Contributions are welcome, be it feedback, bugreports, documentation, translation, research or code. Feel free to work on any of the open issues; just leave a comment that you're working on one to avoid duplicated work.

Translations can be contributed via https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/gadgetbridge/resource/strings/ or manually.

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