Announcing Fitbit OS 1.1-BETA2

[JonFitbit]

Developer preview BETA2 firmware update available now!

https://dev.fitbit.com/release-notes/2017-10-03-1.1-beta2/

[dmm92]

To anyone having trouble installing this like I did: the Ionic itself needs to be connected to wifi to update. Because the app did not mention this in its pre-update info/instruction page, I tried three or four times to get the update to work by restarting phone/watch/app/bluetooth, but of course each time the progress bar just hung indefinitely. Could you put in a ticket to the devs to either make this more clear or remove this requirement altogether? I predict there will be a lot of frustrated devs and customers otherwise. In my opinion the app really shouldn't even start to show a progress bar if the Ionic has no wifi connection.

Thanks

[Jim_R]

What is the version number? Thanks.

[JonFitbit]

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@Jim_R wrote:

What is the version number? Thanks.

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27.30.3.2

[Anthoang]

You're right @dmm92 .  If it wasn't for a user on this forum, I would have never known to disable my bluetooth to get my ionic updated.   There's no documentation anywhere from Fitbit that says to disable the bluetooth.  

[mitwess]

i was able to update without the bluetooth disabled. 

[dmm92]

It wasn't that Bluetooth needs to be disabled, it's that the Ionic needs to
be connected to wifi directly, which you can set up through the app

[JonFitbit]

WiFi is the preferred firmware installation method, you can use Bluetooth, but it's BLE and quite slow.