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Hey all. Unemployed and looking for something fun/interesting to work on lol

I use gadgetbridge to connect to a smart ring to track some basic health data, and while having everything on the phone is OK, I much prefer doing/viewing things from my PC. I thought maybe having some kind of self hosted dashboard/site displaying data gathered by gadgetbridge could be cool, but what do you guys think? Anything more interesting that could be done with the database that it can export on a schedule? I've also considered having gadgetbridge as one of several sources, but I'm not sure how many other privacy conscious options are out there.

I'm thinking of just leaving the transferring of the database to other programs, would that be acceptable? I already have gadgetbridge export every 2hrs and use syncthing to get it onto the NAS.

Would appreciate any thoughts, or if you think it's unnecessary even.

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[–] dieTasse@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can tell you that the best one man projects are those that they do first and foremost for themselves, because a/they enjoy it a lot and b/you see a lots of thought behind the project. So thats what i recommend, start by doing what you need and eventually the project will grow and maybe people will join...

[–] _hovi_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks yeah. I think the coolest place this could go is something that aggregates health related data from different sources, only problem is that gadgetbridge stuff is the only source I personally have. So maybe like other people suggested it's better off as a home assistant plugin or something like that for now but I'm not sure

[–] dieTasse@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

I think that we put too many things into home assistant and it's becoming the everything app. Personally, I prefer some level of separation. Actually having a separate dashboard, self hosted app for just a gadgetbridge would be nice and there is a potential that in the future it can aggregate from more apps than just the gadgetbridge. Just an example, I am currently using Endurain for my workouts. I use open tracks to record them and then I upload them to Endurain. I do this exactly because I want to have stats on the desktop somewhere and I do care more about workouts than any other stats, but if there were also my sleep stats and steps and stuff that would be really nice.