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.

  • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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.worldOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      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

    • _hovi_@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I can check it out - don’t actually have a home assistant setup yet but yeah would that be better?

        • _hovi_@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          3 days ago

          So this gets the data to home assistant - does home assistant then handle visualising it in a nice way or how does it work?

          • Hominine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            Home Assistant has a couple of plugins in the community store (HACS) that can help visualize the data in addition to it’s own native cards. I’m for sure going to tinker with this later but, like the other poster said, it’s a rabbit hole.

  • ProperlyProperTea@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I remember seeing someone mention wanting to set up a grafana dashboard from the data exported from gadget bridge. I’ll see if I can find it

  • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I much prefer doing/viewing things from my PC.

    Me too, syncthing should work for that. Then you could use the database synced on desktop or home server to display a web dashboard available locally?