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Re:Ask HN: A smartwatch that does not send your data God kno... by G4E on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:53PM (#22014699)
You should check the project gadgetbridge[1]. Its aim is close to what you want to achieve : an opensource app to retrieve data and monitor without sending it god know where. I have used it for 2 years now with an amazfit bip, which was never sync with the official app, not even once. The project is really active, with roughtly a new release every month.

[1]https://gadgetbridge.org/

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Re:Ask HN: A smartwatch that does not send your data God kno... by m-p-3 on Sunday January 12, 2020 @09:34AM (#22026414)
I considered to Amazfit Bip and while shopping I saw the Amazfit Bip Lite. One thing I've read is that Amazfit/Huami/Xiaomi started putting a server-side activation on their newer devices, so I'm not sure I want to passively reward that kind of behaviour by buying their hardware..

https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/wiki/Huami-...

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Re:Ask HN: A smartwatch that does not send your data God kno... by dariosalvi78 on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:27PM (#22015736)
good suggestion, thanks. The only issue is that it's Android only, and many patients have iPhones. One thing I could do though is extracting the implementation of one (or more) of the Bluetooth protocols and make an iOS version of it.
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