Thresholds for pushing intraday data to are too high for the population in our study

[MazMoveMore]

Hi there, we can only "pull" the intraday data from Fitbit once a day into our app (using the Web API). The app currently does that overnight, so the previous days data appears the next day. We were hoping to be able to feedback live data (based on heart rate) to our participants more frequently than that.

My understanding from our developers is that Fitbit will "push" data more frequently than once a day from their side if there has been a significant change in activity.

Our app is for wheelchair users. The low level activity that's significant for us is therefore below the thresholds that are usually seen as significant, so those pushes don't happen and we only get data from our once daily pull. 

I was wondering whether there's any way to lower the push threshold for participants in our study only, so we can feedback their data more frequently than once a day?

Thanks so much,

Maz

[Gondwana · Accepted solution]

My understanding is that Web API data will be updated whenever the watch syncs. That's about every 20 minutes, assuming that it has connectivity.

If you need data more frequently than that, you'd need to use the Device API, but that is ony supported on superseded Fitbit OS watch models.