[HN Gopher] On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services ___________________________________________________________________ On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services Author : zdw Score : 45 points Date : 2020-07-24 22:03 UTC (56 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.bunniestudios.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.bunniestudios.com) | Animats wrote: | Yes. The screenshots of the dark pattern dialogs from the "anal | probe as a service" site are great. | andrewstuart wrote: | Aaron Christophel has a YouTube channel in which he shows how to | replace the firmware of P8 smartwatches with custom firmware, | over the air. | | If you like his work .... you could support him by subscribing to | his channel perhaps. | | https://www.youtube.com/user/12002230 | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbPz3WWBuJ8 | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgjKaSETY8Y | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aFDjymXjOw | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGFwQUxhCxc | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqulnz1nJM | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUVEz-pxhgg | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9KMUe6GVLw | ocdtrekkie wrote: | I took my Fitbit off when Google announced the acquisition. Kinda | hoping PineTime will be a good alternative when a more polished | version becomes available. | | I still have my Fitbit data and even my old Google location | history backed up. I wish more projects focused on importing from | takeouts of proprietary services. | OnACoffeeBreak wrote: | For a list of various utilities that work with fitness trackers: | https://www.dcrainmaker.com/tools | hdasika wrote: | "Since Garmin at least made money on the hardware, collecting my | health data is just icing on the cake; for Strava, my health data | is the cake." | | I dont see a difference between what Garmin and Strava do to your | data. Ultimately, Strava is trying to provide you some more | insights using your health data. It ultimately depends whether | you want it or not. Isn't this the same with all the services | these days? | skummetmaelk wrote: | That's like saying Google collects user data _only_ to improve | search. We all know it goes much deeper than that. | j88439h84 wrote: | Does this take data from the Garmin web API or directly from the | watch hardware, without uploading it to Garmin? | jordan801 wrote: | It takes it directly from the .fit file on the watch, uses some | software to parse the file. You can get the .fit file on a | windows machine by plugging the watch into it and accessing it | like a USB. | | Not sure about linux, but I've heard Mac requires some third | party software. | OnACoffeeBreak wrote: | I see a bunch of .fit files in | <watch_name>/Primary/GARMIN/Activity/ when I plug my watch into | a USB port on my PC. So, you can definitely get them off your | device without connecting to Strava or Garmin Connect. | huhtenberg wrote: | Hold on. So how does one go about _retrieving_ the data from a | Garmin watch? | | Garmin app's insistence on always needing a connection to their | servers has always been bothersome, but now that the servers are | fubared, it turns out that I can't even get the data off the | tracker and onto an iPhone, because that too somehow needs a | server connection. Finding an alternative had suddenly became a | high priority task. | asimilator wrote: | My Fenix 5 shows up as a mass storage device when I plug in the | usb cable to my computer. You can pull .fit files off that, | which contain everything the watch records. | dTal wrote: | >It's exactly the data I need, in the format that I want; no | more, and no less. Plus, the output is a single html file that I | can share directly with nothing more than a simple link. No | analytics, no cookies. Just the data I've chosen to share with | you. | | I click the link and am presented with the familiar blank page of | needs-javascript. Oh dear. What has uBlock stopped this time? | | * maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com | | * cdnjs.cloudflare.com | | * rawcdn.githack.com (also a cookie from here) | | * code.jquery.com | | * cdn.jsdelivr.net | | Not quite the "single html file, no analytics, no cookies" that | was promised. | jordan801 wrote: | They were referring to the output file their code produces... | Not the .fit parser. | j88439h84 wrote: | Is it possible to get data off a Fitbit without uploading it to | cloud? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-07-24 23:00 UTC)