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Re: [LUG] open source fitness tracker

 

On 02/07/2022 11:11, John PNZ wrote:
As an afterthought, this four year old Mi Band 3 runs for well over a
month between charges. I'm sure it had only a couple of weeks duration
when I bought it. The settings from the app have tuned it down from
whatever default settings the official Mi Fit app demanded. I may have
lost some functionality by ditching Mi Fit but the charge convenience
and privacy implications are a definite plus.

On Sat, 2 Jul 2022 at 10:52, John PNZ <jh.pcgb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The thing on my wrist is a Mi Band 3, it connects to Gadget Bridge on
my Android phone. From the F-Droid repository if I recall, not the
Play Store because that's out of date. Gadget Bridge is open source
and doesn't export your statistics or raw data off-site like all the
proprietary fitness packages do.

https://www.gadgetbridge.org/ has a list of the currently compatible
bands. It's the best effort I've found at getting the hardware
isolated from the manufacturer's data hoovering.

Looking at the display on my phone it says by band has 55% charge,
I've managed 1331 steps this morning, I had 7hr 27min sleep last night
and it draws graphs and accumulates and averages over calendar days
and months.

On Sat, 2 Jul 2022 at 10:28, Tom via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just wondering if anyone knows of an open fitness tracker like fitbit?

Tom te tom te tom


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I just watched the Gadget Show which compared a FitBit with a Xiaomi jobbie and given errors in the heartbeat  readings from both (Xiaomi was dire - FitBit just awful) I'm not sure I'll bother.

Cheers for the suggestions though!

Tom te tom te tom


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