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@Gordon It works since 10 days like a charm. Bangle.JS reconnects is all cases within seconds. Today, I updated to Firmware 2v17 without regression.
It's now definitely in a state where I can recommend the Bangle2 without concerns to my non-techy friends.

@sconniebotland Thanks for the suggestion. I can confirm that it works with 'pair' as expected!
The watch is connected immediately after switching flight mode off!

Thats great :-)

@Ocim Reconnection after out of range works without a problem.

@dapgo I also removed GB from battery saving.

@Gordon In fact, it was deactivated in the GadtgetBridge global settings, but activated in the Device-specific configuration. However, activating it in both places does not solve my problem.

I think the problem is not that GadgetBridge it does not initiating a reconnect, but that the reconnect fails.
As you can see in my video, also manual reconnect does not work until I head over to the App Store.

@Ocim Can you check if my workaround (connect to App Store, disconnect App Store, Connect Gadgetbridge) does also wokr on your side without restart Gadgetbridge?

Hello,

I put my smartphone to flight mode every evening. However, Gadgetbridge does not reconnect to bangle.js after turning flight mode off.
Also manually clicking on connect does not help. The only solution I found so far is, to open https://banglejs.com/apps/, connect to my device and than Gadgetbridge gets the connection. I attached a short video.
If I don't do the Chrome connection, Gadgetbridge is not going to connect to the watch.
If have the same problem with my other watch.

I'm using Bangle.js Gadgetbridge 0.73.0-banglejs on an Pixel 6 running CalyxOS 4.8.0. But I had the same behaviour also on my previous Android Stock phone.

Does anybody has similar problems with re-connection after flight mode?

Hello,

I don't get any notifications on my bangle.js 2 anymore. Gadgetbridge reports, that it is connected. However, something is wrong as gadgetbridge cannot report the battery level anymore. I had the problem in the past and the workaround was to shortly connect the watch with banglejs.com/apps and than reconnect with Gadetbridge. But this doesn't works anymore.

I tried also a second watch without success.

While searching the forum, a found BagleBridge and GadgetBridge for Bangle.js. Totally new to me. So what is the recommended way to connect the watch to the phone to get notifications?

Any hints are welcome.

@Gordon No it's on Moto G8 with Android 11 and nRF Toolbox 2.9.0

Finally, I got my watch updated :-)

I started the upload process via the nRF Toolbox over and over again (approx. 20 times) as mentioned by @ajkm and slowly progressed towards 100%.
The trick was to touch the watch (do not not reboot to enter DFUTarg mode with waiting for "==="). It is automatically in DFUTarg mode when the emergency screen is there.

Thanks for the support. Now I have to test al the new apps added in the meantime :-)

The update process already starts at 23%. But I never reached the end. And I don't have a Retry button. I have to select the file once again and also have to search for the device before I can restart the upload.

No success with either nRF Toolbox nor WebIDE. It stopps after several percents.

No luck

Thanks for the clarification. I'm using the nRF Toolbox without any success.
And it seems that the WebIDE approach cannot be used if the watch does not start up properly anymore.

@Mi Did I get you right that you have issues in flashing the latest 2v11 version?
I have the same problem. The upload gets stuck every time between 8 and 25%. The Bangle just says "ERROR".
Interestingly, now the update starts immediately at 23%. But it still gets stuck at about 46%.

So my Bangle.js 1 is informing me on the status of the Bangle.js 2 :-)

As waiting for the Bangle.js 2 to arrive is harder than waiting for Santa Claus, I created a simple Node-RED flow to keep me informed on the postage status.
It checks every hour the status on https://banglejs.com/pixels. The backer number and the corresponding mail address need to be configured in the node "CONFIG ME!" and the flow has to be activated.

I connected the output of the flow to my Pushover notification, so I'm always informed :-)

Please do not abuse https://banglejs.com/pixels with too much requests!
I highly appreciate that @Gordon is keeping the backers informed on every progress, it would be sad if he had to stop the service.

Happy waiting,
Sven

Is it possible to scroll text horizontally if the text exceeds the available width?
I'm thinking how to adapt the Grocery app if the items are long.

While waiting for the watch and preparing one or two small apps, I was thinking what it does mean that the LCD has 8 colors? While designing graphics, what colors can I expect?

My goal is to read the items from a CalDAV server (Nextcloud in my case).
As it is somewhat specific, I'll keep it separated for now.

The original Grocery app stores the items in the file "grocery" after first start or update. So I intended to change that file. I'll have a look into simpletimer and might adapt Grocery accordingly.

Thanks for guidance.

I started to write a virtual app to update the shopping list of the Grocery app:
https://github.com/avanc/BangleApps/tree­/master/apps/grocery_sync

No app shall be installed on the device but just data updated. However, there is no type for this and the current version also adds an entry in the app list on the device.

Are there any ideas how to solve this? I saw that the app assistedgps does something similar. However, only data is written into RAM.

Hello Raik,

thanks for the clarification.
You are right, the Gadgetbridge icon gets active (blue) immediately after connecting with Chrome regardless if Gadgetbridge is connected. However, Gadgetbridge does not connect over the whole day. But if I connect via Chrome, the Gadgetbridge connections also almost immediately active and I can receive notifications.

I was using version 0.4.1 of Gadgetbridge. I didn' realized there was a new version in FDroid, as FDroid didn' updated the package sources automatically. Will try the new version an will report my observations.

Gadgetbridge does not connect to the watch automatically. The icon on the phone is crossed out and the icon on the watch is grayed out.

However, if I head over to https://banglejs.com/apps/ with the Chrome browser and connect to the watch, Gadgetbridge can connect and the connection stays.

Any hints, how I can get the gadgetbridge reconnect without the chrome workaround?

One side note:
I connected Gadgetbridge with the watch "without pairing" as mentioned in some other posts (without really knowing what the difference is).

@Gordon Thanks for clarification. Only to make it clear for me:
If I donate 5$ via patreon to you, I have to pay 5.95$ because of VAT (19% in Germany). You get the 5$ (minus 5% for patreon), and you don't have to pay VAT a second time, or?

On the other hand, if I pay you 5$ directly, you have to subtract UK VAT (20%) afterwards?

Please understand me correctly, I want to make sure you get the most out of my money :-)

One question regarding patreon: I will be charged every month an additional dollar VAT. But I wonder why I have to pay VAT on a donation? What is the difference compared to transfer money directly to Gordon? Does he have to pay the taxes in the second case?

And how much of the money goes to patreon?

@Gordon does your fix also improve performance of external IR LED? Or had the bug only influence while using the internal LED?