I would like to realize realtime tracking with the fitbit Charge 5. Especially I would like to track in realtime if I am sleeping or not via webApi. Also it turns out the SDK does not really has this option, because of non existing background possibi...
When I run my application, it works up until the point where the page needs to redirect to another page and grab the url from the current page and use that token to authenticate. At that point unfortunately, I receive an SSL error, page looked someth...
Hello everyone, it's my first post here. Please be gentle. Had some time laid up due to ill health and been planning a mobile App to gamify/incentivize some Fitbit data (I do love my Surge). Been reading through the forums and the documentation, have...
I can't get past this error. I have checked all the docs and the code looks fine. The error I'm getting is {"errors":[{"errorType":"invalid_client","message":"Invalid authorization header format. Visit https://dev.fitbit.com/docs/oauth2 for more inf...
Hi, I follow the instruction at https://dev.fitbit.com/docs/oauth2/ and the document said: "The Authorization header should be set to Basic followed by a space and a Base64 encoded string of your application's client id and secret concatenated with a...
Hi, I'm intermittantly getting this error:{ "errors" : [{ "errorType" : "request", "fieldName" : "500", "message" : "Oops! An unexpected error occurred. If it continues please report it at help.fitbit.com. Please reference error id: 8D65637...
Hello everyone, is it possible to get the access_token with Implicit Grant Flow with curl ??? curl -X POST -i -H 'Authorization: Basic XXXX'-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'-d "response_type=token" -d "client_id=XXXX"-d "grant_type...
Hi,I start playing with fitbit api using python-fitbit, myGET request have a valid response from the server however I can't send POST requests specialy for activity log (POST https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities.json). I get always: fitbit.exc...
Hi strangers. I don't know what I'm doing so any info would b greatly appreciated
Fitbit devices only sync through the Fitbit app. The device data is then immediately available via the API for third-party applications that a Fitbit user has authorized.
Hello,I am making an android app for a uni project and I need the heart rate details from fitbit.Ideally I would need real/time heart rate data but I understand this is not possible (is this still the case?), so I'll need to work with the sync every ...
Hi, I’d like to add a few years of old manually saved weight entries to my existing Aria data. I can do this manually using the API Explorer, eg https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/body/log/weight.xml?weight=150&time=12%3A20%3A00&date=2002-05-01 Put this...
I'm passing a grant_type parameter with my POST, but the API is telling me otherwise. Can someone let me know where I'm going wrong? -- Blocking request (https://api.fitbit.com/oauth2/token) -- Connect d2e3aa20f16f08e813ae93fbf391162a (https://api.f...
Hello, I am new to this forum and a have been looking around to see if there is a C/C++ or Python device SDK that I can download and develop a feature for the FitBit device? This is something that I would do on my own time but gladly share it back t...
Hi, I am trying to access specific 'activities' data such as steps, floors, etc using the Python API. I get back a JSON structure by calling _COLLECTION_RESOURCE('activities', date) but I would like to get back only specific data from this structure....
We have hundreds of Fitbit users accessing our services, and mostly things run very smoothly. But the past couple of weeks, we've been getting occasional floods of subscription notifications to our subscriber endpoints. One such example on March 28: ...
We are seeing a number of request timeouts during API interactions from our website(s). These timeouts first started occuring on March 18th 2016. We have seen these timeouts against multiple API endpoints includingToken Refresh requestsRequest token ...
I'm trying to develop a Python script that pulls my data down periodically (daily) for offline analysis, and discovered that the OAuth 2.0 refresh_token is usable only once. Since I'm only making API calls once a day, my access_token will always be e...
I was trying to verify a subscriber and I'm not seeing the traffic from Fitbit make it to my server so I was wondering if Let's Encrypt certificates were supported. Quick edit: I'm not seeing the traffic make it to the application server.
I would like to display continues heartbeat measurment on my PC for the Charge HR I tried two paths : 1. using the developer api which return heartbit readings but are limited for requests per hour 2. using direct bluetooth connection fron fitbit...
I am a complete noob when it comes to data in systems like this I have a project for college where I need to acquire information that the watch is collecting and at this point I am completely lost as to how to get the data. Any chance there is a defi...
Hi, I am new to this Fitbit API and not very good at JS/HTML DOM. I am making a test program (will be open source) that can read from a person's activity log's steps, calories, distance, and stairs. What I need to do is allow the user to copy their a...
Fitbit does not have official libraries. You should use an OAuth 2.0 library for your programming language and framework and configure it with the Fitbit Web API endpoints and your registered application's credentials.
Hi All, Does anybody know if Fitbit are planning a ChromeOS app that would support the bluetooth dongle? or even intergrated ChromeOS device bluetooth? I use my USB dongle on my Ubuntu machine and use the integrated bluetooth on my Android phone usi...
Hi, First time dabbling w/ web APIs, a background as systems programmer, though. I use my phone to record runs on Strava, but would like to pull the heartrate data from my Surge and add that to the strava activity. Any starting pointers would be grea...
This is the error message we received Request URI: Message: -->OAuth::fetch(https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/date/2014-12-01.jsonfailed to open stream: HTTP request failed! Filepath:/home/sprout/public_html/sprout/application/libraries/vend...
I am having a bit of trouble authenticating my users. I post here to request the tokens. POST /oauth/request_token oauth_token and oauth_verifier are returned. I pass these to the next function that returns profile XML. But then when I try and call ...
I got a Fitbit for christmas and I think it is a very interesting device and have already run into a use case that I would like to try and incorporate the Fitbit API. So after reading the Terms of Service I'm not to sure what I would like to do woul...
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At this time, third-party applications cannot send notifications to the Fitbit Force. This feature is under consideration.