Phone Security

[LimeLeaves]

Is it possible to use you fitbit to locate you phone?

If your fitbit is tethered to you phone via bluetooth, surely the fitbit could alert you when bluetooth connectivity with your phone is lost and even provide you with an indication of the strength of the bluetooth signal, so you could track and find your phone.  I believe that this functionality would be very useful in keeping you phone secure is lost or stolen.

Your thoughts?

[JonFitbit · Accepted solution]

You can definitely use the Messaging API to detect when the device loses connection, but there aren't any APIs which expose the bluetooth signal strength at this time.

https://dev.fitbit.com/reference/device-api/messaging/#variable-peersocket-

[dde33]

Are there any API's that give the status of blue tooth and WiFi connection, at least connected or not?

I really could not find any, but not easy to do search.   Would love to have some form of code completion to see elements and properties.

I'd like to see on the short cut screen small icons for this, not unlike when BT headphone is connected.

If not exposed in the API's but available to inside devs,  this addition would be of help (I think) in the continnuing saga of syncing and communication.  

Based on my own use both BT & WiFi appear to be intermittent by design - to save power drain - for example my phone (Android) shows BT 'On' yet disconnected under settings yet I have no issues syncing, so I assume it wakes up to service.  

[thinkbui]

So this would require a companion app?  I'm trying to build myself a custom watchface to give a vibration warning on disconnect just like the watchface I built for my old Pebble Time and am still trying to get up to speed on specs for the Ionic.