12-21-2015 08:46
12-21-2015 08:46
We can get the very active minutes via the api but there doesn't seem to be a way to get the calories burned for just those minutes.
Is there something I'm missing that will give them to me or are there mets defined for the "very active" minutes?
We know the very active distance and very active time so we could calculate the average speed and use that to look up the mets and then the calories but we were hoping that something in the API would give them to us. We want to offset our users caloric allotment by only very active activities using the tracker.
12-21-2015 13:31 - edited 12-21-2015 13:33
12-21-2015 13:31 - edited 12-21-2015 13:33
@dstarh wrote:We can get the very active minutes via the api but there doesn't seem to be a way to get the calories burned for just those minutes.
Is there something I'm missing that will give them to me or are there mets defined for the "very active" minutes?
We know the very active distance and very active time so we could calculate the average speed and use that to look up the mets and then the calories but we were hoping that something in the API would give them to us. We want to offset our users caloric allotment by only very active activities using the tracker.
@dstarh Before Fitbit changed their definition of Active Minutes the calorie ranges were
Active Minutes 3.0 to 5.9 mets/minute
Very Active Minutes 6.0 mets/minute and greater
Hope this helps
12-21-2015 13:49
12-21-2015 13:49
Hrm, that's kind of backwards from what I need. I want to be able to calcualte the calories burned via Very Active Minutes. The API doesn't distinguish between the calorie types so we need to calculate them ourselves.
We know that there were N very active minutes during the given period, we just need to know more details on them to determine either what the mets are and we would use that to calc the calories or get the calories themselves from the api (if they were available)
12-21-2015 14:33
12-21-2015 14:33
@dstarh wrote:Hrm, that's kind of backwards from what I need. I want to be able to calcualte the calories burned via Very Active Minutes. The API doesn't distinguish between the calorie types so we need to calculate them ourselves.
We know that there were N very active minutes during the given period, we just need to know more details on them to determine either what the mets are and we would use that to calc the calories or get the calories themselves from the api (if they were available)
@dstarh Because the data isn't available via api, all I do is create an Activity Log and analyse the one minute graphs as you can see in the example. A pain doing it this way, but when I walk I know what my calories/minute should be to achieve VAM I aim for that even though over the time lapsed it will have it's ups and downs.
12-22-2015 08:07
12-22-2015 08:07
I understand the data isn't direclty available via the API, I'd like to know
12-22-2015 08:36
12-22-2015 08:36
I should note that any analyzation we'll be doing will be programetically