I’m looking for any suggestions for smartwatch that it similar like Google Pixel Phones with GrapheneOS. Is there such a thing?

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      That’s what I use. It’s way more stripped down than a modern smart watch, but it has good battery life, a transflexive LCD, can discretely give me notifications so I can keep my phone on silent, and can show me the weather at a glance.

      There are more things it can do, I just find my phone is better for the majority of them.

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      So frustrating that their logo is a nice looking round watch, but their product is an ugly rectangular one.

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      And priced for the average human! Wow.

      Damn, if I didn’t need the fitness tracking support of my Garmin watch, I’d be all over that!

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        Same here. Looks really cool, but I use a lot of sport features of my Garmin watch.

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      I think I’ve just found my next watch. It looks more useful than my current Fitbit Versa. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

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      I held onto my Pebble for so long, wearing it from launch until about a year ago, where I got a Garmin Smartwatch.

      So many things I loved about it, especially its simplicity and legendary battery life (at that time).

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        Samesies! The Garmin battery is starting to deteriorate after about 3 years use though. That said I don’t regret buying it, it’s been great.

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          Garmin watches have screws everywhere, I would assume they’re easy to repair and to replace the battery.

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    Big fan of the PineTime for minimalism and extraordinary battery life, but the Bangle looks compelling. Maybe once the PineTime dies.

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        I’m looking for a 3atm waterproof os smartwatch. Banglejs Is supposed to be 3atm like the amazfit bip If you close the hole for the barometer but I won’t risk it. Any 3atm os smartwatch available?

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        I would reall love to have an open source watch, but unfortunately both the pinetime and bangle.js 2 lack severely in the activity tracking, which is the primary reason for me to have a smart watch.

        I’m not sure how the screen is on the pinetime, but on the bangle.js 2 it’s surprisingly bad. Not a deal breaker by itself, but combined with a sort of limping experience on other parts, it’s not a good product (yet).

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    PineTime is everything Foss but is only for simple stuff (notifications, time, media control, pedometer, stop watch.) Had mine for a couple of years now and it still gets updated 👍

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    Gatgetbridge (your link) has a breakdown of devices they support https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/ . You can click through the vendors to find devices which are both “highly supported” and “no vendor-pair”. Meaning most/all the features work without any reliance on the vendor app.

    As for the similarity you are asking about with pixel->GrapheneOS, there are very few watches that can run an alternative open source firmware or operating systems apart from the ones that are already open source, like bangle.js, pinetime, etc. Wearables are even more specialized than phones, they require specialized code designed specifically for them and would likely require pretty extreme effort to reverse-engineer.

    I use a pebble 2 HR with gadgetbridge but the watch it self runs the old pebble firmware which gadgetbridge talks to. This is fine for me, but if you are looking for a more modern watch you may have to make some compromises.

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    There’s AsteroidOS but I couldn’t find any of the supported watches (all quite old IIRC) at a reasonable price.

    Gadgetbridge with some proprietary watch is fine privacy-wise (I had an Amazfit GTR3 pro, I needed to register an account with the Zapp app and use it once, but then uninstalled it once I got the required password and used Gadgetbridge exclusively).

    Bangle and the Pine Watch are low-res and IMHO quite ugly compared to alternatives from big brands.

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          Worth a look at Coros. I find their battery life and product support to be much better than the garmin watches I’ve owned. They even added maps as an update for existing watches when they could have forced people to buy a new watch for that feature. Not FOSS though.

          If there was an open source GPS watch that could last long enough with enough accuracy for my workouts, I’d be all over it!

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    I just picked up a banglejs 2 and I love it. I was using a galaxy smart watch 5 but didn’t work without gapps on my lineage phone. Its obviously not as good as the Samsung smart watch but I’ve been super happy with it. No creating accounts, getting tokens etc. Just pair it via Bluetooth and gadget bridge and you are good to go. Its a little pricey but for open source watch its awesome, I’ve heard good things about pinetime as well.

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    I have a PineTime, but I’d have to go with the Bangle.js.

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      I have a pinetime and I basically just stopped using it. I thought it being open source would mean I could add my own features, but development for it sucks and it’s massively limited.

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          It has 512kb of flash, and Over 400kb is already taken by the base firmware. Also, you have to flash a new firmware every time you want to try a new feature.

          64kb of ram, too. So you have to be extremely cautious and careful about how you code any features.

          It’s just not worth it.

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    I only know of the Pine Time, however they warn that their watch OS is community driven and under active development.

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    Idk if it can be called a smartwatch, but I just found out about the sensor watch, and now I really want one. Basically a hackable Casio f-91w

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    I use the AmazFit Band 7, the last sensibly sized watch that exists it often feels like.

    Weather fails to sync, but then it’s probably the least important feature on a watch. The only feature I really wish Gadgetbridge could do that even the official stack can’t is “nap mode”

    As a narcoleptic person still recovering from major depression, I wish I could either press a button to silence the watch and set a “smart alarm” for 30 minutes. Even better if it would turn on automatically if it detects me sleeping during the day!

    The only other thing GB can’t do is stand in for the phone-side ZeppOS API functionality, but who needs that, let’s be honest!

    Fantastic battery life to boot. I have gone two weeks after forgetting to charge it while wearing it almost 24×7!

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        I’ll try it out immediately (he said, after claiming weather is unimportant 😅)!

        Do you also happen to know any way to get navigation instructions to show up on the watch? …Asking for a friend, ofc!

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          In the Gadgetbridge settings it says it only works with OsmAnd and Google Maps, neither of which I use. But it should work with those two

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      Also can’t push navigation to the watch, but tracking a route for a walk whole you have the phone with you works just fine. (Neither feature I need)

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      Have an amazifit too, just found out about this, spent the last hour configuring everything. Looks very promising.

      Also, amazifit tools is complaining a bit about not finding zepp anymore but seems that everything still works, including Tasker integration

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    Lilygo T-Watch. Sorry, I know I’m late to the party but no one mentioned these. They’re a little closer to a development platform, but basic enough for anyone to pick up and learn. They’re similar to the PineTime in terms of being low-power, more simple options. But this uses a more powerful ESP32-S3 SoC and is a lot more responsive.