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@kaybee8888 have you thought about asking ORG to integrate with Fitbits API? This integration is something fitbit leaves up to the 3rd party app, fitbit provides the tools.
It was be easy for FitBit to just add "Orange Theory Fitness" in their drop down menu under "Track Exercise/Log/Choose Activity" Pilates is already there for example.
It might be easy for fitbit to do, but if Orange Theory is not owned by Fitbit, there will be many legal repercussions. If your going to add the interface of a third party coompany, you simply can not do it without the blessing of the third party company.
This is one of the reasons Fitbit leaves the integration of third party apps up to the third party company.
It is up to Orange Theory who owns the copyright and the idea to present their thoughts to fitbit.
Thanks for the clarification on how this is typically approached as well as the suggestions for getting OTF involved! Submitted an idea on their contact us page this evening.
I'm enjoying OTF in a way I never thought I would. I also very much appreciate my Fitbit! Bringing the two together would be awesome! I voted thumbs up and will also contact OTF.
A friend of mine just joined OT and purchased the heart rate monito for 100.00 I use my Fitbit every day! Did they every come to an agreement that you can use the Fitbit? Maybe I can double the steps by wearing 2 lol
Im still not sure what Orange Theory is, but ask them to go to Www.fitbit.com/apps it is there they will find everything needed to connect to your Fitbit account. Depending on what info they want access to, tye might not even have to ask.
I never asked Fitbit and every night my script downloads the days data.
Love OTF. Workout there 5x:week. Got my Fitbit Blaze for Christmas and just discovered it won't sync with OTF. Left a comment on OTF page and liked above. I don't think OTF will ever let folks use other than their device for class, but why not give us "credit" in Fitbit by a sync with their app.
I work out at OrangeTheory Fitness (OTF). Every day I have to delete the cardio portion of my work out and manually enter my OTF workout results; I see a drop down for OTF in my activities. Not ideal but OK. That being said when my FitBit connects with MyCigna Apps & Activities the information "imported" from my FitBit to Cigna only reflects the cardio portion of the workout. Why wouldn't the activity I input be "imported"?
Today in class my Orange Theory instructor mentioned that fitbit is partnering with Orange Theory for an all day wear HR monitor that works with the OT classes! I am so excited as an already committed fitbit Charge HR wearer who had to purchase another HR monitor for class.
Can you give us any details? Or was this an insider thing that only the coaches heard about at the recent conference?
Please say it's not a rumor and it will have a similar design as the current monitors (nothing crazy and orange).
Hello there @BethHouse, welcome aboard to the Fitbit Community! I was reading your post and I understand you are eager to see this partnership happens. However, at the moment I cannot deny or confirm this information, since I haven't received any updates.
Nonetheless, I appreciate you have brought this to my attention and so far we do not know of any future partnership, additionally we don't comment on future products.
If this is something in which you're interested, I would like to share with you the following feature suggestion, feel free to contribute with your vote and comments, it would be nice to have your support for this ideas.
Stay tuned to our Fitbit Community In case new updates arise.
Apple just announced integration with Orangetheory This is huge as it eliminates the need to buy and wear a second tracker. Also, Fitbit currently does not track OT activity well. Rowing in particular is not well recognized. But integration could solve this. Fitbit should work to also pursue integration with OT.
How do you guys track rowing? While in class, I will from time to time, just manually change the exercise on my tracker, from Elliptical (I do that vs. Treadmill) to weights. But sometimes I forget.
Hi everyone, and thanks for taking the time to share this suggestion about making an integration between Orange Theory and Fitbit with us. Our web API and smartwatch SDK are open which means that the service you are wanting can actually integrate with Fitbit. We’d encourage you to make this suggestion to the service and direct them to our existing API and SDK and resources such as the web dev API community. You will likely be able to email them via their contact us page or customer support, or they may have their own ideas board like this. Or encourage them to reach out to Fitbit directly. Thanks for your participation in the Feature Suggestion forums, we look forward to making Fitbit more useful for you.
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