I also struggled to get my watch to connect for the first time. I tried reading through as much as I could find and eventually figured out I had made an unintuitive mistake.
The first thing I did when I got my watch was try to pair it through the bluetooth menu of my android phone. Apparently this is enough to block connections with the Gadgetbridge app. I had to go into my bluetooth menu and manually unpair the watch, and then Gadgetbridge found it immediately.
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I also struggled to get my watch to connect for the first time. I tried reading through as much as I could find and eventually figured out I had made an unintuitive mistake.
The first thing I did when I got my watch was try to pair it through the bluetooth menu of my android phone. Apparently this is enough to block connections with the Gadgetbridge app. I had to go into my bluetooth menu and manually unpair the watch, and then Gadgetbridge found it immediately.