Subscriptions to manually entered activity

[jkingyens]

Does the subscription API/webhooks only work with activity data collected from a Fitbit hardware device? Is there any plan to provide subscription updates when the user hsa manually entered an activity? I don't have a fitbit device but would like to test my endpoints.  It would also be good for a user experience standpoint for 3rd party applications to behave the same way regardless if the activity is collected from hardware or web form.

Thanks,
Jeff

[SunsetRunner]

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@jkingyens wrote:

Does the subscription API/webhooks only work with activity data collected from a Fitbit hardware device? Is there any plan to provide subscription updates when the user hsa manually entered an activity? I don't have a fitbit device but would like to test my endpoints.  It would also be good for a user experience standpoint for 3rd party applications to behave the same way regardless if the activity is collected from hardware or web form.

Thanks,
Jeff

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Yes it does! If you manually log an activity, sleep log, etc, it will generate a notification to your endpoint.

[jkingyens]

Oh thats great to know! However, I am not seeing activity on the webhooks. Are there any tools available to help debug this case? I'm using a product called ngrok.io to provide a public proxy to my localhost. Webhooks for other services like Stripe are working fine. I've confirmed the url matches the settings

Thanks,
Jeff

[jkingyens]

It says "This subscription endpoint had not got any messages yet." inside the subscriber detail. I've also verified that the account I'm adding activity for is connected to the application I'm developoing. I'm NOT using https/ssl for this test. I'm using activity scope only. Do i need any other scopes here?

Thanks
Jeff

[SunsetRunner]

Did you configure and enable your subscription endpoint on dev.fitbit.com? Did you add a subscription for the user? ( https://dev.fitbit.com/docs/subscriptions/#adding-a-subscription )

[jkingyens]

I've added the subscription endpoing in dev.fitbit.com.  How do i add a subscription for the user? The user has gone through the oauth 2 flow for server type application. Is there anything else I need to do or scopes I need to set to enable subscriptions?

[jkingyens]

In addition to configuring the subscription in the dev.fitbit.com dashboard, must I also send an API request as documented under "adding a subscription"? I assumed the configuration in the dashboard did this for me but this looks like it might be different. 

Thanks,

Jeff

[SunsetRunner · Accepted solution]

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@jkingyens wrote:

In addition to configuring the subscription in the dev.fitbit.com dashboard, must I also send an API request as documented under "adding a subscription"? I assumed the configuration in the dashboard did this for me but this looks like it might be different. 

Thanks,

Jeff

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Yes, you need to individually add a subscription for each user that authorizes your application.

[jkingyens]

Great, thank you. I've added the subscriptions and I'm receiving webhooks now. Thanks for your help!