Activity API request: add stepsThisHour

[notwaldorf]

At the moment it's almost impossible to correctly track stepsPerHour in a clock face. It is not exposed via the activity API, and tracking it manually is very buggy since Clockfaces do not update when the display is off -- as a result, correctly syncing the current steps value on the hour, every hour is not really possible.

Here's a thread from 2018 where a Fitbit developer agrees there's no way to do this: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/SDK-Development/Steps-this-Hour-on-a-Watch-Face/m-p/2942003/highligh.... There's many other similar threads of hacks people have tried to do to display this, but it's been 2 years and no updates have been made to the API to fix this.

🙏 🙏 🙏 

[LizFitbit]

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[mkostersitz]

I also just started developing clock faces for the Sense and Versa 3 and  would love to see an API like that. It is really not possible as stated above to do this manually in a reliable fashion. 

Mike

[Nickeron]

Hi there! I managed to work around this, in case you are interested.

I made a clock face for myself and shared it. You can check it out here.

If you are interested in the code, and how I worked around the issue, you can check my GitHub repo here.

If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch.

Hope I helped 😉

[mkostersitz]

Thanks @Nickeron your code has been a great inspiration 🙂 and helped me perfect my code and reduce some of my self inflicted complexity 🙂

Mike

[Nickeron]

Hey @mkostersitz that's wonderful news to hear! I am happy to learn that you found my code useful.

Cheers,

Nick

[Guy_]

The SimpleClockPro clock face keeps track of Steps This Hour and Active hours, with multiple reminders to move and a Steps This Hour history for the day on the clock face without needing to sync.