Opening Developer menu on Versa Lite

[baileyd007]

I have written apps/clock faces for the versa lite using both Fitbit studio and the CLI, and they work great using the emulator. Now that it is time to load them up onto my Fitbit Versa running 71.6.19 (latest version) on an iPhone 12, the Developer menu is not showing up under the app settings or the watch settings. I have tried signing out of everything and back in (suggested here: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/SDK-Development/Enabling-Developer-Bridge-in-Mobile-App/td-p/2293029), but to no avail. Hopefully, I can be pointed in the right direction to figuring out how to enable the developer menu/ bridge for the versa lite, many thanks 🙂

[Gondwana · Accepted solution]

Perhaps the issue is that Versa Lite doesn't have WiFi, which is used on other devices to provide the developer bridge that allows side-loading.

To test on a Versa Lite, you'll probably have to upload the .fba to GAM to get a link, and then browse to that link on your phone. (You don't have to submit the app for review and publishing just to get a link.)

Without access to a developer bridge, you won't get console.log output and other runtime error messages.

[baileyd007]

Is this what you mean by "GAM"? https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM
And if so what do you mean by "get a link" and I don't really see how it would be used for this application from looking through its documentation
many thanks

[baileyd007]

I apologize as I overlooked this: https://gam.fitbit.com/setup will check that out as it makes far more sense

[Gondwana]

Yup; that's the one you want.

This might help you a bit.