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Garmin watches

A Garmin watch tracks a run, a swim or your heart rate with no account and no phone nearby. Connect IQ, Garmin's own SDK, lets you load your own watch face or app onto it directly, officially.

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What it can become

What owners already do with it, easiest first.

Easy~15 minNo risk

Mirror phone notifications with no Garmin Connect app

Gadgetbridge pairs with supported Garmin watches to show calls, messages and weather with no vendor app and no account, syncing activity data locally. Its own development moved to Codeberg; the GitHub copy is a mirror.

An evening~30 minNo risk

Talk to your own watch with no Garmin Connect account

garmin-ble reads and writes the watch's own Bluetooth protocol directly from a computer, enough to grab workout data with no phone, no app and no Garmin account in the loop.

An evening~1 hNo risk

Build and load your own watch face or app

Garmin's free Connect IQ SDK compiles a watch face, widget or data field that drops onto your own watch over USB, no app store review needed to try it yourself.

Everything built for it

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