• mudethEnglish
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    Not hybrid watches but Garmin watches have a passive LCD screen that is readable under reflected light and the app is excellent, albeit proprietary.

    I have a Fossil hybrid and Garmin Instinct and wear the instinct most of the time. I find the Fossil app too basic and it drains battery. I have heard about an open source app that can sync to them however.

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      I recently switched to using GadgetBridge with my Fossil Hybrid. It was a little annoying to set up, but it works.

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        That’s the one, thanks! I better get to it before Fossil pulls the app. You need to extract a private key from the paired app correct?

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          Yes, there are a few ways to do it. You need to have logged into the Fossil app with an email/password, it didn’t seem to work with “login with Google.

          I used a python script that I ran on my computer that got the private key from the Fossil servers.

          https://gadgetbridge.org/basics/pairing/fossil-server/

          NOTE: You need to add the private key before pairing with GadgetBridge, if you add it after then it won’t work.

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            Appreciate the pointers!