I like tofi as a wayland alternative. Unfortunately like so many of these projects it seems to be somewhat recently unmaintained.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/8576827

It requires a login to use it…

This is… exactly my setup too. Works great. The brio is a tiny bit weird in that it appears as two independent video devices in Linux, but choosing the right one is all that’s necessary and it works fine.

The pricing is reasonable though

Nextcloud is free unless you are a business choosing to pay for support or you pay a hosting provider. It costs nothing to run it on your own hardware. Also if you are interested in self hosting and would like to really put in the work to understand it the easiest place to start in my opinion is the docker examples, especially the docker-compose examples.

That said, make sure you have backups. Nextcloud is a massively complex application which does all the basic stuff pretty well, but you are the responsible person if it breaks. It’s far far from set-it-and-forget-it software.

Nice, honestly this sounds like the perfect use case for Gadgetbridge which is a much newer and actively developed tool in addition to not requiring network access. But your solution works fine and I’m sure it’s less work if it’s what you were already doing anyway rather than migrating to a new app. Glad it’s working for you.

Probably? Though I have no experience with the rebble app. I don’t think any of it’s features like searching for apps, weather, etc will work properly and some android apps really misbehave when you take away permissions that they expect to have. Try it and let us know! =]

This is what I currently use with my pebbles. I’ve never used the pebble app, I just started with the FOSS option and stuck with it. Their wiki is really good https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/wiki/Pebble

EDIT: To answer the actual question from this angle, gadgetbridge is surprisingly security focused even though that’s not really it’s main goal. The developers do not allow it to make outbound connections and do not allow the watches it supports to make connections either (except where this is impossible to prevent, say if they can make their own network connections) which is why it doesn’t support in-app weather.