Live data

[CillianSharp]

Can a Fitbit Charge HR 1 be used as a motion sensor to manipulate live parameters in real time?

[AndrewFitbit]

@CillianSharp See this post here.

[Kerenk]

Hi,

Looking into the API I was trying to figure out if any of the Fitbit devices supports real time heart rate data, in the resolution of seconds.

I want to develop a simple client app that will be able to pull the heart rate from the API each 3 seconds. Which of the devices supports that?

I understand I should use the get heart rate time intraday series. what is the minimum time difference I can sample? (1 second?)

Also, in the future, I would want to make my app supporting a few users. can I ask to get thier HR data by using thier email address as a userid for example?

Thanks a lot.

[Kerenk]

Sorry to change the question to another direction.

Are there other Fitbit devices that can measure anything in realtime? such as heart rate?

I understood the PurPulse is made to that exact purpose - that Alta HR supports it.

[AndrewFitbit · Accepted solution]

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@AndrewFitbit wrote:

See this post here.

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@Kerenk That can also be answered by the post I linked above.

"You currently cannot get real time data from Fitbit devices. They are not designed for this use case."

[Kerenk]

It can't be. Or that there is misleading data anywhere.

1. In this thread, you can see people talk about granularity of sampling. This means that this is feasible with Fitbit. Doesn't it?

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Web-API-Development/Sampling-time-of-intraday-Heart-Rate-Data/m-p/18...

2. In the Alta HR site, it is specifically written that It supports the purepulse technology, which provides the real data sampling.

Is this something that will be bounded through sdk? Hard for me to believe in that.

https://www.fitbit.com/altahr

Thanks,

Kerenk

[jdthamores]

 I am having the exact same issue, looking forward to see if we have access to that.

The only device I could find that let's you stream the data in real time is Empatica.

[Kerenk]

Andrew, can you please respond?

Also, can HRV be measured in addition to HR using the Alta HR?

Thanks,

Keren