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.

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Supported Devices

Pebble, Pebble Steel, Pebble Time, Pebble Time Steel, Pebble Time Round
Mi Band, Mi Band 1A, Mi Band 1S (experimental)

THE PEBBLE 2 AND PEBBLE TIME 2 ARE CURRENTLY NOT SUPPORTED. ADDING SUPPORT IS HIGH-PRIORITY BUT WE CANNOT GIVE YOU AN ETA!

Features (Pebble)

Incoming calls notification and display
Outgoing call display
Reject/hangup calls
SMS notification
K-9 Mail notification support
Support for generic notifications (above filtered out)
Support for up to 16 predefined replies for SMS and Android Wear compatible notifications (experimental, tested with Signal)
Dismiss individial notifications, mute or open corresponding app on phone from the action menu (generic notifications)
Dismiss all notifications from the action menu (non-generic notifications)
Music playback info (artist, album, track)
Music control: play/pause, next track, previous track, volume up, volume down
List and remove installed apps/watchfaces
Install watchfaces and watchapps (.pbw)
Install firwmare files (.pbz) READ THE WIKI
Install language files (.pbl)
Take and share screenshots from the Pebble's screen
PebbleKit support for 3rd Party Android Apps (experimental)
Fetch activity data from Pebble Health, Misfit and Morpheuz (experimental)
Configure watchfaces / apps (limited compatibility, experimental)

Notes about Firmware 3.x (Pebble Time, updated OG)

Gadgetbridge will keep track of installed watchfaces, but if the Pebble is used with another phone or another app, the information displayed in the app manager can get out of sync since it is impossible to query Firmware >= 3.x for installed apps/watchfaces.

Getting Started (Pebble)

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

For more information read this wiki article

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
Firmware Update
Heartrate Measurement (alpha)
Synchronize activity data
Display sleep data (alpha)
Display sports data (step count) (alpha)
Display live activity data (alpha)
Set alarms on the Mi Band

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:

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.

Authors (in order of first code contribution)

Andreas Shimokawa
Carsten Pfeiffer
Daniele Gobbetti

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.

Do you have further questions or feedback?

Feel free to open an issue on our issue tracker, but please:

do not use the issue tracker as a forum, do not ask for ETAs and read the issue conversation before posting
use the search functionality to ensure that your questions wasn't already answered. Don't forget to check the closed issues as well!
remember that this is a community project, people are contributing in their free time because they like doing so: don't take the fun away! Be kind and constructive.

Having problems?

Open Gadgetbridge's settings and check the option to write log files
Quit Gadgetbridge and restart it
Reproduce the problem you encountered
Check the logfile at /sdcard/Android/data/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadgetbridge/files/gadgetbridge.log
File an issue at https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/issues/new and possibly provide the logfile

Alternatively you may use the standard logcat functionality to access the log.

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