Bangle.js Gadgetbridge Activity Data Fetching

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Posted at 2025-01-27 by user157584

Sorry if I am posting this in the wrong forums, but I'd imagine that it's within this community that the bangle gadgetbridge app gets maintained.

Over the past year that I've had my bangle.js 2 device, the activity fetching seems to work well when the device is connected. However, say when I've connected part way through the day, activity data doesn't seem to fetch the history prior to connecting. Ex: the watch might show 5000 steps, but only 1000 gets fetched into gadgetbridge. I'm running the most recent firmware for the watch and app. Is this a known issue already that cannot be resolved due to technicalities or is it just unique to my experience with the device and app?

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Posted at 2025-01-28 by @gfwilliams

@thyttan was it you that worked on this?

I think likely we'd need to see some logs from Gadgetbridge to figure out what's going on (https://gadgetbridge.org/internals/topics/logs/), but this should be implemented and should work.

Gadgetbridge should send a {t:"actfetch", ts:time_as_integer} to the Bangle and the Bangle will respond with all the data it's recorded since that timestamp - you can try it by connecting with the Web IDE and typing GB({t:"actfetch", ts:Date.now()-60000000}) on the left-hand side

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Posted at 2025-01-28 by @thyttan

I mainly worked on the sports stuff. Not as much general activity like steps. 😸

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Posted at 2025-01-29 by @gfwilliams

Ahh, sorry - looks like it was @joserebelo

Looking at the code, I realised that if you tap on the Settings icon for your bangle in Gadgetbridge and scroll down, you'll see a Full sync option under Activity - if you press that it should automatically sync up any steps you might have lost.

I'm not 100% sure why it wouldn't be able to sync itself up automatically though

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Posted at 2025-02-03 by joserebelo

Yup - that was me.

@user157584 could you check whether the full sync mentioned by Gordon manages to fetch the missing activity data?

This sounds like a bug, but I am not sure how it would happen. Would you be able to provide some logs after the sync is triggered?

Since they may contain some personal / activity data, feel free to DM them to me here / on matrix at joserebelo:matrix.org / decline altogether.

I will try and go through the code / test this out to see if any regression may have been introduced in the meanwhile.