Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I dont know how much information a SmartWatch can send to thier mother company without the proprietary app. But I'd suggest you use gadgetbridge to syc it to your phone.
https://f-droid.org/packages/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadgetbridge/
It's open source and I bet there's some way to hook it up to your NAS.
*edit Be sure to check compatibility with your watch before buying they have a list here: https://gadgetbridge.org/
PineTime - Pine64
The PineTime has a great feature set, but the build quality is terrible. I guess it’s perfectly justified for the price, but I don’t know; I don’t feel good having to order a new PineTime every six months once the last one I bought dies.
I am planning to buy a Casio B5600. There is a FLOS companion app for it, and it has a G-Shock frame; that thing ought to endure a bit before giving up :P
What do you mean it has a terrible build quality? I have one and I think it is great. They advertise some water resistance but I have full on dunked it in buckets of water with no issues. I can’t comment on the longevity but it seems to be a pretty robust design.
Get a Mi band and use Gadgetbridge instead of the official app
The Smart Band 7 with Gadgetbridge is great! You can track a ton and your data stays on your devices instead of being sent to China. Unless that's your thing. You be you.
That's my setup (Mi Band 7). It works better than I anticipated. I want it to be as little in the way as possible (no notifications and vibrations), which this allows me to do. Can export database for processing elaewhere.
As far as I'm aware, Polar is the most privacy-friendly smart watch company.
However, I don't think you can sync the data to a private server.
Choose a smartwatch that supports Gadgetbrige, a free, open source and great OS for smartwatches
What kind of phone do you have/ what do you use to keep your phone private. I'm asking genuinely. I've always been a strong advocate of privacy but felt like i was alone and fighting an uphill battle until recently finding this sub. So I'm still very noobish with a lot of it.
Either the PineTime, or buy one that you can flash AsteroidOS onto.
There's gadgetbridbge but all of them are ancient crap, Of the viable current things, Garmin is least bad IMO. You can in fact sync to your PC, but you'll need to actually do something with it. They're based in Switzerland and accept a bullshit email to start an account. YMMV but bettr than Samsung or Apple and the battery life is exemplary.
There is this app https://www.gadgetbridge.org/ and it supports quite a lot of smartwatches, which you can pair up with it. Gadgetbridge doesnt send out any data and gives you full control.