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Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app (www.theverge.com)

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[–] refreeze@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I also just deleted my Connect account. I have had it with these greedy American corporations. To anyone looking for an alternative, I highly recommend checking out Gadgetbridge, it still lets you use your watch with almost all the same features, only the data never leaves your phone.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Any advice for getting it to actually work with a Garmin watch? I just tried it with my Fenix 6 (solar) and it doesn't detect the watch at all. In fact, even selecting "show unsupported devices" reveals that my watch's bluetooth MAC address isn't even seen by my phone. (Yes, I unpaired it and removed Connect from my phone. I also resorted to factory resetting my watch. No dice.)

At the moment I'm using it unconnected because it still shows the time and so forth with the watch face I want. But without any kind of connectivity there's really no point to not just putting this thing back in its box for good and grabbing one of my numerous dumb watches.

[–] refreeze@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Did you put your watch into pairing mode? On my Forerunner, I have to go "Settings/Connectivity/Phone/Pair Phone" on my watch.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Yes indeed, I absolutely did. Still no joy, alas.

[–] ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Gadgetbridge

Is this in the google app store? I can't find it.

[–] refreeze@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think it is only on F-droid

[–] ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I saw that but I don't know what that is.

[–] refreeze@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

It's an alternative "app store" but for only free and open source software, highly recommend checking it out!