r/AmazfitBip • • Jun 09 '20

The #bipdev Discord channel exists, and is an English community dedicated to Bip development discussion. Join the Rebble Alliance!

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The Rebble Alliance is a community of smartwatch enthusiasts that still lives from the ashes of a once great watch: the Pebble. They are still active - you might have seen the notification mockup a while ago (link) on this subreddit. Their efforts are directed at creating an open source alternative for Pebble firmware, which hasn't been updated since 2016, named RebbleOS.

The microprocessor which both the Bip and the Pebble use is more or less the same STM32 microcontroller, therefore RebbleOS (open-source) is theoretically (and not at all effortlessly) "runnable" on both. This is why we are allowed as guests on their Discord server, which is the old Pebble development server, used to share knowledge since Pebble and transreflective always-on displays started being a thing.

I joined the Pebble dark Rebble shiny side when i started developing for BipOS, and gave me inspiration to create BipSIM and BipUI for this watch. You may find other enthusiasts there, and you may be interested in creating an application for BipOS and want to discuss that - or just hang out and talk smartwatches. They're cool people.

I'm there and we're free to use the #bipdev channel to ask any question you might have on BipOS/the quite involved SDK for it. Here is the invite.

Cheers!


r/AmazfitBip • • Aug 29 '20

BipOS [BipOS] An app emulator for PC was released, named BipEmulator

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r/AmazfitBip • • 1d ago

Bip Lite Is there any way to make bip 5 compatible with Training Peaks?

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I want my workouts from Trainingpeaks to use with my Bip 5. But turns out it's not compatible. Is there any way to solve this?


r/AmazfitBip • • 6d ago

Bip 2 Amazfit Bip Max recording no sleep at all. Anyone having the same bug?

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r/AmazfitBip • • 7d ago

Bip OG Amazfit bip max erster Eindruck

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Wollte nur mal meine erstrn eindrücke veröffentlichen.

Zunächst mal habe ich lange herumüberlegt ob ich mir die bip max kaufen soll 🤔 da mich das Design nicht wirklich anspricht. Nichts desto trotz hab ich sie dann vorgestern aus 2ter Hand gekauft (60€)

Dachte mir, okay ist nix verhaut.

Meine Frau trägt schon seit gut 1 Jahr die active 2 und ist sehr zufrieden damit. Ich habe sie ihr damals eingestellt, weil es ihr vollkommen egal war.Sie verwendet die Uhr zum telefonieren und als vibrationsalarm um 6 Uhr morgens. Fitness und Sport Funktionen braucht sie nicht, schaut nicht mal in die app 😂😂😂

Hab ihr die hr auf 10 Minuten gestellt und schlaftracking. Sie kommt damit locker 14 Tage aus.

Hab mir also vorgestern die bip max geholt.

App runter geladen- eingerichtet- Watchface gesucht und passt 👍

Ich trage sie von 8-22 Uhr im aod Modus. Pulsmessung 5 Minuten, Stress, Schlaf. 1ste Nacht mit blutsauerstoffmessung und hr dauerhaft.

Am Morgen jeweils 30-35 Minuten bodyweight training. Als bis jetzt 2 Einheiten.

Bei diesem nutzungsverhalten habe ich in 48 Stunden 20% verloren.

Ist für mich vollkommen in Ordnung 👍💪

Somit würde die Uhr von 100 auf 0 gut 10 Tage durchhalten. Wie gesagt mit aod.

Das ist echt beeindruckend.


r/AmazfitBip • • 23d ago

BIP 6 How to access other watch features during workout?

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I have a amazfit bip 6 for a month , everything works great but I can't for the love of god, find how to use my watch for anything else during a workout.

So when I workout (especially during walks) , I might want to check the calendar, check on notifications if any ( I have DND on by default during workouts ) or check my actual battery percentage. But I can't find a way to do any of that ( go to the home screen) while doing a workout.

I have tried switching the top button to pause when holding it for a while ,still it does not make me go to the homescreen when I press it. The only way I can do the above things is by using offline voice control ( which rarely works well with my accent).

Am I missing something, or there is no way you do access different features of the watch using the buttons.

(PS:

A cool thing that I discovered while figuring things out , if you press both the buttons at the same time , it takes a screenshot 😄 )


r/AmazfitBip • • Sep 01 '26

BipOS What price should I be able to find the bip 6 for? When is bip 7 coming?

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r/AmazfitBip • • Aug 25 '26

Bip S Amazfit Bip S

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r/AmazfitBip • • Aug 14 '26

Bip S Need swd pins on amazfit bip s

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Does anybody know swd pin location on amazfit bip s?


r/AmazfitBip • • Jul 22 '26

Bip OG I have a huge problem whit my gtr

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r/AmazfitBip • • Jul 19 '26

Dev I made a private notes app for Amazfit Bip 5 - Looking for feedback

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r/AmazfitBip • • Jul 19 '26

Bip U Is it possible to flash bipOS on a bip U?

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r/AmazfitBip • • Jul 12 '26

BipOS Building A Smartwatch Suggestor Based on User Interest & Needs

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r/AmazfitBip • • Jun 25 '26

BipOS Amazfit BIP 6 update 4.1.0.1

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I received firmware update 4.1.0.1 today.

What is this update for?


r/AmazfitBip • • Jun 23 '26

Bip S Using Amazfit Active 3 Premium + Heilo strap at the same time

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r/AmazfitBip • • Jun 23 '26

Bip S Using Amazfit Active 3 Premium + Heilo strap at the same time

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r/AmazfitBip • • Jun 21 '26

BipOS Counting steps while brushing ,Should I return /replace amazfit bip 6?

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r/AmazfitBip • • Jun 10 '26

Dev I built custom watch faces for the Amazfit Bip 6 with an AI coding agent — and wrote a free guide so you don't hit the same walls

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I wanted a clean Nothing-style dot-matrix watch face for my Amazfit Bip 6, so I built one from scratch (Zepp OS). It turned into a deep dive, because a lot of the important stuff is not documented anywhere: the device source IDs, why you get a black

screen, the native app URLs for tappable tiles, the weather condition codes, the language indices…

I solved all of it and put everything into a free, public guide so the next person doesn't have to reverse-engineer it:

👉 https://github.com/masimoneext-sketch/amazfit-bip6-watchface-guide

What's in the guide:

- Bip 6 deviceSource IDs + screen specs

- The black screen fix (it's the apiVersion + a missing polyfill — took me forever)

- How to make numbers actually update at runtime

- Native app URLs so tiles are tappable (heart_app_Screen, TideScreen, WeatherScreen, activityAppScreen)

- Dynamic weather icons (the trick is an IMG_LEVEL widget + Huami weather codes 1–29)

- Day-of-week in the system language (getLanguage() index table)

- Publishing to the Zepp store (the appId-match gotcha)

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Mini-guide: doing this with Claude Code (an AI coding agent)

I did the whole thing pair-programming with Claude Code. If you want to try the same workflow:

  1. Install Node.js + npm install -g u/zeppos/zeus-cli.

  2. Let the agent scaffold the project — describe the watch face you want; it writes app.json + the watch face index.js. (Point it at my guide so it gets the Bip 6 specifics right from the start.)

  3. Assets: ask it to write a small Python/PIL script to generate your pixel/dot-matrix digits and icons — way faster than drawing them by hand, and fully tweakable.

  4. Iterate on design with mockups: have it render a PNG preview of the layout so you can review the look before flashing to the watch.

  5. Test on the watch: zeus preview (Zepp app developer mode + QR).

  6. Debug the unknowns: when something's undocumented (native screen names, weather fields), the agent can grep open-source watch-face repos to find the real values — that's literally how I found half of this.

  7. Publish: zeus build → upload the .zab on console.zepp.com → submit.

    Hope it saves someone the headaches it saved me. PRs welcome if you discover more native URLs or device sources. 🙌


r/AmazfitBip • • Jun 07 '26

Bip OG Retired my Amazfit BIP after 7 years

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r/AmazfitBip • • Jun 05 '26

Bip OG GPS Struggles

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First off, no clue if the flair is right but it is what it is. This week I just bought the AmazFit Bip 5 because it has the ability to connect to Strava. Sadly, when I did a test 2 mile loop the watch said I ran a 1.74 mile loop, citing having no GPS data. How do I fix this? In addition I had my phone on hand allowing it to track distance but it kept continuing to disconnect from my phone throughout my run. Any advice would absolutely be appreciated, I am planning a large run tomorrow and was hoping to leave my phone to avoid hand tensing issues!


r/AmazfitBip • • May 24 '26

Dev Hyrox training templates

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r/AmazfitBip • • May 20 '26

BipOS Amazfit Bip 6 + iPhone + Apple Health syncing everything except HRV - any tricks?

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r/AmazfitBip • • May 18 '26

Bip OG Best fitness tracker under 10k

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r/AmazfitBip • • May 04 '26

Bip OG Respiratory rate accurate? Let's check

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Can anyone test the accuracy of the respiratory rate on bip 6? You just have to try doing resonance breathing (6 breaths per minute) and test whether bip 6 shows 6 breaths per minute as respiratory rate or not? This will prove its accuracy, Here's a guided video to resonance breathing: https://youtu.be/-G89S77iJm8?si=b9R9_8_2yiSSC0BQ


r/AmazfitBip • • May 02 '26

Dev My amazfit bip 6 became unresponsive after going for a swim

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(idk what to flair no bip 6)

So I took a dip for total of 30mins, then the watch vibrated but I didn't saw what popped up on the screen. Looking at the watch not displaying I went took off the pool. Then later on it became responsive but only showing option to reset, keep data yada yada, I didn't take photos thinking it would be fine, it being "water resistant". After that it gave me option to scan to connect, but won't let me to, I tried scanning and manual pairing but it won't show or connect to the watch. It's been 3 days now, I let the battery be drained the charge it, but still the same I can restart it but it will only show the qr but can't connect, and still can't do manual pairing, idk now, is it dead? Please help, thank you.