Real Time Heart Rate into Third Party App

[kenil333]

Hello team,

Hope that everything is great there.

I want one help from you guys. I am working on one of the fitness apps, And My task is to show real-time heart rate data from Fitbit wear into our application. Our app is created by the Flutter SDK. If you help with flutter then It's better but If you have done it before in Android and iOS apps then also it will be worked for me.

I am requesting you guys to help me with that. The task is to show real-time heart rate data from the FiBit watch to our Flutter(Android/iOS) app.

Thanks and Regards,
Kenil Jasani.

[Gordon-C]

Hi @kenil333 

I moved your question to the Device SDK forum.

Gordon

[Gondwana]

It can be done, but with difficulty.

Accelerometer Fetcher and Android Fitbit Fetcher (see Fitbit's ossapps list) transfer real-time accelerometer data to Android in real(ish) time. If you can write a server in Flutter, it could replace the Java component. Otherwise, you'll need an intermediate server app to catch the data coming from the Fitbit app and make it available to your Flutter app.

[kenil333]

Thanks for the reply,

It's helpful, but I have one more thing to ask. Is developer bridge available in Fitbit inspire 2? I wasn't able to find that on my Fitbit inspire 2.

[Gondwana]

No. Developer bridge, and device API, need a Fitbit OS device (versa* or sense). Other watches can only use the Web API, which doesn't provide accelerometer or any real-time data.

[kenil333]

Thanks for the reply,

I have two more doubts. actually one but for confirmation.
1. For real-time data I have to purchase the versa?
2. Only from versa and sense we can get the real-time data?

[Gondwana]

That's my inderstanding, but you should get it confirmed before spending any $.

I think the Fitbit mobile app may be able to receive some real-time info (heart rate?), but not accelerometer and not anything easily or legitimately accessible to third-party apps.

[Gondwana]

PS. What you're wanting to do is difficult. I suspect that a lot of people who have wanted to stream real-time data from Fitbit devices give up. Before spending any money, make sure you're confident that you'll be able to master the technical challenges.

[kenil333]

Thanks but I don't have any other choice, I have to do that. So I will try and see what happens, Thanks for the help it's really helpful.

Do you have contact support for technical things for Fitbit? because there is customer support but I didn't find any technical support email or something?

[kenil333]

Hello @Gordon-C,

As you know all the things which we discussed, I want real-time heart rate data from a Fitbit tracker or watch whatever, My application is in the flutter, But if you don't have any idea about that then no problem I can manage it with kotlin and swift. Please help with that.