How many of you bought into the health tracking botnet? I couldn't

Wrong board
>>>/fit/

>>58173603
It's not that bad.

My garmin vivosmart hr gets me my phone notifications and controls music on my phone.

Also it's handy af if you do cardio. I leave my phone at home, wear a small mp3 player and use the watch to keep track of how many kilometres I run, and the heart rate to see if I'm going hard enough.

It's good stuff, as long as you exercise. If you don't exercise its kinda pointless.

>>58173603
I use a pedometer on my phone (apache2 licensed).
I don't exercise much, so don't really see the point.

>>58173603
I have a Mi Band, debating about buying something "better", but can't really wear wrist strap or necklace stuff when i play basketball so can't justify dropping $100+ for one.

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>>58173603
I'm getting a Mi Band 2 soon, so hyped.
If you're worried about botnet, then you have two solutions for Mi Bands:

1) Mi Fit app requires registration, but AFAIK doesn't require constant connection. So you can register and then block the app in your firewall (I use AFWall+ from F-Droid). It's a good practice in general to block internet access to apps that don't (or should not) need it.
2) Use Gadgetbridge. It's the FOSS companion app for Mi Bands or Pebbles (RIP). It's not as good as official apps, but it works and it's FOSS.

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>>58173918
Also, so far I've used Pacer app for step tracking with my phone. It's pretty good, and can be safely blocked with a firewall.

>>58173918
Did not realize it will run when blocked. Thank you.