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Fitbit Account -> Google Account: Changes in Fitbit API?

Hello,if I migrate my Fitbit account to a Google Account as requested by Fitbit, does the Fitbit API change? Especially the authentication procedure? I use the API for personal projects - do I have to adapt anything after the account migration?https:...

RN_ by Jogger
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Change of email address for research application

I am writing to request a change of the email address associated with the previously approved Research Application's OAuth 2.0 Client ID. This request is being made due to a change in the research personnel.Could you please confirm whether it is poss...

cifcif by Jogger
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Intraday form is not approved yet.

Dear Team,I hope you are doing well.My name is Ashish, and I am currently developing an AI-powered mobile application, Qalqan, which analyzes users' sleep patterns and HRV data to assist with health-related concerns. To access HRV intraday data, I re...

Fitbit for Participants without Google Account

Dear all,Fitbit now requires a Google account for registration, which complicates our research process. We intended to create Fitbit accounts and provide them to participants, allowing us to monitor their sleep data and export it as needed. However, ...

Cardio Score Norming Distributions

Hi-I'm wondering if Fitbit can provide norming distributions for the Cardio Score data by age and sex? We receive numeric or range values, but are interested in translating these into quantiles from a healthy population. Thanks!

Health Mobile App

Hello guys this is my first time developing an app that gets data from a smart watch , i was wondering if it is possible using Kotlin Multiplatform to get data  from the watch for both android and ios devices ,because i read that some features of  fi...

gioanni by Jogger
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Get Daily Activity Summary Endpoint Issues

Hi, Using the Get Daily Activity Summary endpoint to check steps hourly during the day has starting returning incorrect data.  If the endpoint is called before midnight the returned value is users steps for the day.  This is the expected behavior.   ...

scoon by Jogger
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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,...

Irregular Rhythm Notifications (IRN) data

We're in the process of adding support for IRN data in our app, using the Web API, but having difficulty testing it due to lack of notifications.  Is there a way to force a notification, or could you provide more detailed sample/test data?

darin_ce by Recovery Runner
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Activities no longer logged automatically

Our app currently POSTs activities that represent workouts /v1/user/-/activities with the intent that these activities would appear in the user's Fitbit logs.  Recently we have been getting lots of user reports from our users indicating that our work...

Internal server errors for activities/minutes* e

I am constantly getting errors with the activities/minutes* endpoints. For example: https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/minutesLightlyActive/date/DATE/DATE.json and https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/minutesSedentary/date/DATE/DATE.jso...

acbowz by Jogger
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FitBit: Internal Service Error

Hi thereSeems like we're getting 500 Response codes from FitBit. The API page however, does not reflect any issues. @JohnFitbit can you please advice on any issue || What you are seeing on your side. Regards

Resolved! Bug: "401 Unauthorized" error has changed

During our recent maintenance period, we have discovered that some of the 401 Unauthorized error messages related to tokens have changed, and are not returning the "error_type". Any application that uses the "error_type" value to know when a token ha...

Gordon-C by Fitbit Developer
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Resolved! Compatibility With Nordic Track

I noticed that Fitbit syncs with Peloton.   As  I think it is amazing however, I have a Nordic Track and it uses the iFit App.  Would love for FitBit to have compatibility with this app as well in order to sync workouts and other data.  (iFit schedul...

Resolved! Forum Moderator Issue With Dates

This forum is flagging any posts that I submit that contain dates.For example, if I includeorIt gives me the errorsIs this by design? Problem with auto-moderator?Thanks,Jeff HumphryNew Ocean Health Solutions

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isMainSleep = false characteristics

It was my understanding that Fitbit only captured naps (here I'm assuming isMainSleep = false is a nap) that were at least 1 hour in length and not the longest sleep period of the day. It was also my understanding that sleeps > 3 hours in length woul...

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HRV daily RMSSD

I am looking at daily summaries from the daily summaries of HRV data.  and I am a bit confused about the output. { "value": { "dailyRmssd": 62.887, "deepRmssd": 64.887 }, "dateTime": "XYZ" } What is the data used...

acbowz by Jogger
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active minutes and MET

We are supporting a well-known Company to run a study on patients affected by haemophilia. In order to study the effect of several drugs on the physical capacity of these patients, your Fitbit Versa device  is used.More in detail, from your device, t...

Resolved! Fitbit Servers for European Users

Hi - When registering a device with an account in the US, the Fitbit app shows the following notice: Does this same disclaimer appear for users registering within Europe? Are the servers supporting European customers also in the United States? If not...

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Zharko by Base Runner
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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...

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Gordon-C by Fitbit Developer
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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...

yulife by Jogger
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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...

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?

mmf229 by Recovery Runner
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