I would like to use a smart watch with health tracking (e.g pulse, steps, sleep tracking) but I don’t want to setup an account and send my data to a proprietary cloud.

Can I sit host ‘tge cloud’.

If not, can you recommend any watch which i can just sync data from watch to my Linux laptop (again: no account, etc)

Thanx

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    I use a Galaxy Watch 5 with SHM-MOD and Companion. It gives local-only data from Samsung Health for BP, O2 and ECG. I’m dead set against using a Samsung account and will toss the watch if that ever becomes necessary.

  • LukeS26 (He/They)@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    https://www.crowdsupply.com/protocentral/healthypi-move

    This is a project I’ve been interested in for a bit. It looks like it will have a pretty good feature set out of the box, and with everything about it being open source I’m sure there will be an API for it at some point too. The price is a bit on the expensive side but is honestly pretty comparable to most current gen smartwatches tbh.

    • Ohh@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      Thx. Interesting. But a bit to expensive.

      Is there really no watch i can just connect to my pc and transfer data?

      On android opentracks, fitotracks etc are great applications.

      • LukeS26 (He/They)@lemm.eeEnglish
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        23 hours ago

        Yeah, it kinda sucks how cloud reliant most smart watches are. Like other people in the thread mentioned I think stuff like the pine time, bangle js, etc are probably your best bet for cheaper ones.

        There’s also asteroidOS which you can flash onto certain older smart watches. It’s what I’m currently using but there isn’t as much support for it so for more complicated data tracking would require setting up something like a raspberry pi to periodically fetch data over Bluetooth and process it yourself.

  • Shimitar@feddit.itEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The open source market for smart watches sucks. Gadget bridge doesn’t really work for any “new” (i might be wrong here) devices.

    Luckly Garmin watches are top notch and the software side its pretty good. You can not install the app and manually download all activities files via USB if you like.

  • nis@feddit.dkEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Check out https://gadgetbridge.org/

    I bought a Garmin 265 a couple of months ago after moving from iPhone/Apple Watch to GrapheneOS. I have never installed the Garmin app or created an account there. Most features of the watch works normally.

    • decisoft@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      +1 to Gadgetbridge. Some smartwatches like CMF Watch Pro 2 by Nothing does not require the official app to set up the watch