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    [–] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

    While we're on the topic; any decent smart watches out there that

    • aren't made by apple
    • don't harvest my data
    • don't stream everything I do straight to china

    ? I like the concept of a smart watch, but I haven't really looked into the ecosystem. Preferably one that just integrates nicely with any android phone

    [–] 18107@aussie.zone 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    If you're interested in tinkering or just want a basic smartwatch, Pebble is back

    I’d heard it was coming back (sic) but I’d not heard that it will have a 30 day battery life, wow

    I use CMF Watch Pro, with Gadgetbridge.

    [–] brisk@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    If you're comfortable with a bit of setup, there are open hardware options on the market. They're reasonably basic compared to a flagship but phone notifications, some health metrics and telling the time are all quite possible.

    PineTime (with Infinitime firmware)

    Bangle JS

    If you want to basically make it from scratch there's also the Yatchy

    [–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

    Second BangleJS 2. I went from Pebbles to the BangleJS 2 and have been really happy with it. I don't recall it being difficult to set to; it came ready to go, and synced with GadgetBridge (the Bangle.js fork) right away.

    [–] arty@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Is any of them capable of a "smart alarm" aka waking you at the right phase of sleep?

    [–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

    From a quick search, "sleep as android" seems to have support for both, although people have varying success with it

    [–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

    Love my pinetime. cheap tough and does not have bullshit.

    [–] joat_mon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Amazfit with Gadgetbridge.

    I bought one a couple of years ago and it works great. Gadgetbridge keeps all the smart functionality local to your phone.

    I've heard good things about the Garmins as well which I think are mostly also supported in Gadgetbridge.

    [–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

    Also having a GTR4 with GB, same idea. Still hate having to send them data by having to use their app on an initial pairing to get the damn key for the first time. Also, now that I changed phone, and using the pairing key on the new phone worked to get it to connect to my GTR4, it seems a bit less persistent connection than when it was paired from their app on the same device. Not sure what else changed, because it's in both cases pixel phones, running GrapheneOS.

    [–] pigup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

    Second this, my wife and I both got one. It's a slight inconvenience to get the Authorization key from a command line, but it's not very difficult. Gadget Bridge basically fakes the phone side of the app, which means it won't send your data out and watch thinks everything is fine and normal. Pretty cool. Look at all these free watch faces: https://amazfitwatchfaces.com/

    [–] Peer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

    Maybe Garmin, Withings or (Chinese owned now) Suunto?

    [–] _g_be@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago