Gadgetbridge support ?

[vincegre]

Hi

Just read today an article on the blog of HA/Open Home Foundation about all progresses made recently in the Android version. It states that now it reports data of your wearable devices for sports. Unhappy it’s only for closed apps or using Google proprietary things but no support at all for the great open-source app for wearables: Gadgetbridge. GB already allows since a long time share of real-time health datas with third parties apps on the same device so it should not be a big work to get these datas in HA companion no ?

Thanks

Vincèn

[vincegre]

Hi @TimoPtr

Thanks and I would be happy to help but unhappy my knowledges in Android programming are zero :( I'm still struggling to write an integration for HA so far !

Vincèn

[dshokouhi]

Gadgetbridge should be supported using the intent system https://gadgetbridge.org/internals/automations/intents/
https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/notification-commands#broadcast-intent
https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/core/sensors#last-update-trigger-sensor

both sending and receiving are supported by the app.

We also already have users utilizing the feature for this purpose: #1292 (comment)

the intent system was designed to integrate with any 3rd party offering as the app should not be adding 3rd party code from other apps explicitly.