[API] How to get activity ID from subscription
Hi,I have registered a subscription for activities. How can I get that activity ID from subscription so I can query it for activity TCX raw data ?
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Resolved! SDK for Accelerometer Data in Esense2 for a project on Sleep at the University of Essex
Dear Developers Community and Fitbit Official Support,I am a researcher at the University of Essex. We recently secured £1.1M funds for a project about sleep and mental health.I wrote this post for the SDK community but a user commented: “This forum ...
Resolved! What endpoint is being used to determine whether a tracker is being worn?
Hi, I am working on a health tracking project.What endpoint can I use for checking if the trial attendees are consistently wearing the tracker?I am considering using 'last Sync Time' under 'get Device'. Is it the recommended one?Or are there other it...
Changes to our Fitbit Status Dashboard
On November 14th, we updated our Fitbit Status Dashboard, https://fitbitstatus.com or https://status.fitbit.com, to align it with the look and feel of Google's status dashboards. As a result, those who subscribed to the old page will no longer recei...
Temperature, EDA, HR data download
Hi, I'm a researcher at Politecnico di Torino. We need a smartwatch to monitor heart rate, EDA, skin temperature on office workers and we were interested in Fitbit Sense 2. I'm wondering if the device allows in such a way to download these data recor...
Resolved! Increased 503 errors today
Hi, We've noticed that we're getting a high rate of 503 errors when users are refreshing their access_token. We also see intermittent issues when connecting the the APIs. The status pages say everything is fine, is there some localised outage? Cheers...
Resolved! Accelerometer Data in Sense for a project on Sleep at the University of Essex
Dear Developers Community and Fitbit Official Support,I am a researcher at the University of Essex. We recently secured £1.1M funds for a project about sleep and mental health.I wrote this post for the SDK community but a user commented: “This forum ...
Rent Fitbits for Research
Hello!I will be conducting a study in the Netherlands and Belgium that will require ~60 Fitbits for about a month. I would like to rent these as I do not have the budget to buy them. I am wondering if anyone knows of any resources to rent Fitbits fro...
Resolved! Dates in example JSON responses not permitted in posts in this community?
I just finished typing out a long post with an example JSON response and the form kicks back and says the date isn't permitted in this community?That date is all over the example response; I spent a lot of time doing manual calculations with that dat...
Getting baseline temperature
I know temperature logs output the deviation from the baseline - but to calculate the deviations... the baseline must be known. Is there anyway to pull this?
Resolved! How should I register an email address as a development account?
I am considering preparing a development account to manage things like the Fitbit Web API client ID at our company.I would like to apply for the use of the Fitbit Web API Intraday, and I want to use an email address created with Google Groups because...
Google account for Fitbit
Hi! We have several clinical studies utilizing Fitbit, each involving hundreds of patients. Many of our patients are seniors, and to ensure smooth account management, we usually set up Fitbit accounts for them before sending out the devices. However,...
Why are there no Floors climbed in Activity Logs?
Is there any way to get the number of floors climbed per activity - not sure why it is available as a daily activity summary statistic but cannot be picked up in the log of each activity?
Activity + Sleep = 18:36?
Hi all, I pull data from API and do some analysis on google sheets. I noticed the following and want your feedback. I used to get 24:00 when summing activity (sedentary minutes + lightly active minutes + fairly active minutes + very active minutes) a...
Can't see sent direct messages
Hi @JohnFitbit ,I might have accidentally sent you two direct messages - instead of one. That being said, please let me know if you received either or both of them as I cannot see any of the messages in my inbox. If not, I can also send you the quest...
Changing App Ownership
@GordonFitbit Hi Gordon,Is there a way to change the ownership of an app over to a work address. This way we don't need to set up everything again, change keys, and have to wait for intraday data again.Also, I tried doing a personal message and it sa...
Resolved! Overlapping Sleep Stages
I am trying to parse through my sleep data and realized when there are overlapping sleep stages with awake (which is light,deep, or rem overlapping with a very short awake stage) - the small awake stage that shows in the app for 30 sec or 1 min is no...
Suggestion: Make API not suck
Fitbit's food tracker is so terrible that I have to use a different app that syncs with fitbit. It's important that all my data be in the fitbit app because that's what my doctor and the All of Us Research Project have access to.But it's not just th...
Humana Go365
I am part of the Humana Go365 community and I use a Fitbit Versa 2. I love the Fitbit but it’s not communicating all information tracked to Go365, so I don’t get all the points available like a Garmin user. Garmins transfer heart rate and calories bu...
Resolved! Exporting sleep data to REDCap
Hello, Our team is trying to understand what the effort and overall process would be to extract Sleep data from FitBit devices (multiple study participants) into REDCap software for analysis for a research project. Would this involve developing our o...
Project
Hello, I'm doing a project for my University and I'm trying to use de fitbit API. The idea is to get the data from the central servers of FITBIT where the watch send the data, through a batch executed periodically. I have read the docu but there are...
Resolved! sleep parameter for insomnia study
Hi all !!I'm very interested in Fitbit Inspire 2, because I'm ready to study insomnia. That's why nowadays I've tested on Fitbit Inspire 2 wearing this band and collected data from it.When I wear this band, I'm wondering about several things.First, h...
403 error when trying to get ECG data
Hi, I couldn't find a solution to my problem so I thought I would just try on here. I'm trying to get ECG data using an api. I have successfully managed to retrieve hrv and hr intraday data. However, for the ECG data, I'm getting the following error:...
Is it possible to transfer app one account to another one?
We have an application on another user, we want to transfer this application to a different e-mail / person. How can we do this?
Sleep Reports
Could you place the hour markers on all of the sleep reports: Time Asleep, Sleeping Heart Rate, Estimated Oxygen Variation, and Restoration, just like the one for Deep and REM Sleep Stages showing the deep, light and rem sleep cycles? That would be h...
Inspire 2 reports "out of range" heart rate when device is not being worn?
I am using the api /activities/heart/date/ to retrieve heart rate data for users wearing the Inspire 2. I've found that the "heartRateZones" data always suggests that the device is being worn for 24 hours, which can't be the case. The 4 zones "Out of...
Please tell me about "Web API Intraday".
Nice to meet you.My name is HIRO.Please tell me about "Web API Intraday".https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/intraday/How long does it take to approve if I apply using this form?Is there a charge after being approved?
Track calories burned during exercise
Hi everyone. I have purchased FitBit Inspire 3 to be used in a personal/university project of mine. The goal, as mentioned in the title is to track calories burned during exercise. After I complete an exercise and it appears on my FitBit dashboard, w...
limit for number of connected user
Hi there,Are there any limitations for the number of users connected to an app? I know that for each registered user there is a limit of 150 requests per hour. But are there other limitations? I can't find it in the documentationthank you and best re...
Intra day data request - no response
Hi, a few weeks ago I have send in a request for access to Intra Day Data. Can I have a status update on the progress? CaseNumber: 39916703 Kind regards, Andries
Error 500 for endpoint "Get AZM Intraday by Date"
Hello everyone,All requests to WebAPI work well, with the exception of the AZM Intraday by Date, for which I get a 500 error. Tried through Python requests and Postman. Anyone experiencing the same?
Female Health Data (Menstruation) not available via Web API
I've looked in the following places for the endpoint that'll return my "female health" (period) data to no avail:Web API Swagger UIWeb API Full DocumentationIf this data is accessible, can could someone point me in the right direction to be able to a...
intraday activities requests with UTC timezone use local time to check the start time of the range
I think I'm seeing a bug with the way you handle requests using the timezone: 'UTC" parameter. It's currently June 1st, 5:41am UTC time I made the following request:GET https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/USER_ID/activities/steps/date/DATE/DATE/15min/time...
Resolved! How to obtain real-time seating times
(Machine translation.)Hello.I am considering purchasing a FitBit device because I am interested in the API that is in place.Is it possible to use the API from a PC to get the device wearer to remain seated for more than one hour?Or is it possible to ...
Web API Changelog
Hi, I have been looking for a changelog of the Fitbit Web API but did not find anything except for this thread last year which did not end in a productive discussion:https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Web-API-Development/Web-API-changes-concise-changelo...
Resolved! Detailed Element Name description
Hi, I see from below Web API documents I can find the descriptions and examples of each Element Name of every endpoint. (https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/) But may I know if there are any more detailed documents that I can refer to sinc...
Resolved! Data collected during sleep
Hi, As far as I understood data that are collected during sleep is like below - sleep, breathing rate, skin temp, SPO2, HRV May I know if I missed any data types? Thanks. Regards,Hannah
Resolved! Realtime data gathering
So I want to pull data from the Fitbit cloud to my database by using Fitbit API in real time. But as far as I am concerned, data only gets updated when you access the Fitbit app on your phone and swipe to sync the data to the cloud? Please correct me...
Does "wake" stage in sleep stages mean time in bed without sleeping?
Hi Does "wake" stage in sleep stages mean time in bed without sleeping?I see that most sleep logs start and end with "wake".Then, does the "wake" at the beginning of the log mean the period I was in bed but not asleep?and the one at the end, the time...
Resolved! Very New Developer Question
I'm very new to development in general and was confused about the role the web API plays in developing apps. Can it only be used to develop websites or is there any way it can be used in a phone app? I'm trying to make an app for my phone that collec...