I have several personal, private apps that are side-loaded on my Versa3 that query from public apis. These apps have stopped working in the last few weeks. I have done a new Build and Install to the Versa3, and they worked briefly. However, they o...
Hello! I'm working on the companion app for Fitbit on Android, and I need to retrieve users' sleep data for my application. Could you please share how the companion app can obtain this data through the Fitbit Android app? Alternatively, are there any...
I want to get the real time Heart Rate on my android app. As per my understanding this is what is needed. 1. Develop a fitbit device app and make use of Excercise API (since I am making a workout app)2. Develop a companion app 3. Establish commicatio...
Hi all,New to the forum I've skimmed through the forum and found some related threads from which I conclude that Fitbit can passively sync approximately every 15 minutes. For a research project we are working on, that would suffice, but I would like...
Hi all,Could someone tell me if and how I can display an error message in the clock Settings/Companion if message socket is not OPEN? The Fitbit Settings Guide example code below works fine if the messaging socket is OPEN, but if the socket is not OP...
Hello,I am really stuggling with how to allow someone to change a simple date format via the settings.I copied the info verbatim a number of times from the SDK and the console logs always return undefined, null or [object OBJECT] with the exception o...
I have a watch face which displays the weather using the weather api in the companion SDK. Ive tested on the simulator and on my android device, but I've had a few iOS users say it's not working (one of which is my Dad who's settings I've gone throug...
If you start an app which has a companion and the phone is not in range or syncing, the companion obviously does not get started. When the phone becomes in range or syncs does the companion automatically get started or is there a method to follow to ...
Dear Development TeamI am currently trying to GET and POST to a homebrew API.However, it is not working.It works well in the fitbit OS simulator andI have confirmed both GET and POST connections to the API from my smartphone browser as well.Only in f...
Is there a way to get the name of the file selected by the companion?
so the same app and specifically a line which does a fetch request, works on android phones and simulator, but on ios fitbit app I get this error thrown the data couldn't be read because it isn't in the correct format anyone has any idea ? I saw in s...
Hello,I want to do a http request to a website which says i should do it like following:POST /automate/cloud/message HTTP/1.1 Host: llamalab.com Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded secret=&to=&device=&priority=normal&payload=Hello%20Worl...
I've got a websocket server running on Replit using the node.js ws library (wss://FitPlace.codingmaster398.repl.co)I've then tried to connect to it via the companion like so:import * as messaging from "messaging"; let websocket = new WebSocket('wss:...
I need to read Gyroscope data of a Fitbit Sense and do some calculations on them and show the results to the user and also save the data to another app or web. I was thinking to develop a Fitbit app and communicate with a companion to send the data t...
Are the PeerSocket API, and all messages sent over it, shared among all apps on the device and its companions or is it an individual "channel" for each app-companion-pair??ThanksAaron
Working on a watch face and I have lots of data to store. I was thinking about storing this data in the companion folder in hopes of making function calls faster as apposed to having an api call. Will this data size effect the overall build size of t...
Hi, I am new to Fitbit studio and i want to make an app running in fitbit ionic which can communicate to my android and ios app. From what i have heard is that we have companion api for that purpose and i want to know that whether we can build our c...
Hello I have programmed my own watchface with a weather display. Until today everything has worked. I just wanted to add more icons and so I changed the icon codes. Suddenly I don't get into the message-event in the app.js of the companion after send...
I am reviving a question asked a while ago that did not receive an answer: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/SDK-Development/Simulator-with-websocket-and-localhost/td-p/4211835 I want to test a Fitbit app using Fitbit OS simulator and a companion using...
The source code I've developed on GitHubThe code works beautifully in the simulator but naturally the real thing has a couple pretty serious problems that maybe you could help me with. The two major issues are: 1 ) This watch face eats the battery li...
Hey there, I'm fighting with this for the whole weekend and I'm running out of ideas.I try to create a personal app to retrieve data from Microsoft and display them on my fitbit.For this, I need to get an access token via a refresh token and then lat...
Hello Guys, i'm trying to develop companion app to communicate to my Fitbit Ionic, my Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 and Fitbit Ionic already connected to Fitbit Studio, when I run the project I can see the app run on My Fitbit Device, but no app installed to m...
I am coding an app that has users input information on the companion to be displayed on the device screen, but I have found the companion is roughly 90% reliable in communicating with the device. It is somewhat random in terms of what is communicated...
I'm testing a simple fetch from my server that should include custom headers in the response, this works perfectly fine on the simulator, all the response headers are intact, but when I test it on my Android device (Android 11 with Sense, SDK 6), the...
This is not an issue, it is rather an option.I try to detect in the compagion file if the device is connected to the internet or not.To be more precise, I need this to call an external API by internet link if internet is available or not if internet ...
In Fitbit app in Developer menu after install from studio clockface in that app (in sideloaded app) I can't find permissions switches to test. Please tell me where you can find them.
Hi, In my use case I want to send custom event/activity with some custom parameter to Fitbit server after clicking on button of watch face and same data should be retrieve from android app after authentication with Fitbit. The problem here I'm facing...
I would like to be able to send a binary file from the device to the companion and receive it correctly. when I receive the file with pop() and try to retrieve the contents with file.arrayBuffer(), I get [object ArrayBuffer] and cannot see the conten...
I have an app that sends messages to a companion which is then supposed to communicate with a simple websocket that I have created. I have created a websocket server that runs on ws://127.0.0.1:8080/ , but when attempting to connect to that websocket...
I'm trying to figure out a way to get a live-stream of my heart rate from the Versa 2 to a program on my computer. I know that the companion (which I believe runs on my desktop's fitbit app?) can communicate with other web API's, but that's about the...
Hi, I am trying to set up the communication between the companion and any Web API using the Fetch function using the Fitbit Studio Simulator. Fitbit Studio Details:Device: Versa 3SDK version: 5.0Permissions: Internet & Run in background Companion cod...
How exactly are we supposed to use the fetch API? Is there something specific that we are supposed to import? I am calling fetch( ) but keep getting Unhandled exception: ReferenceError: fetch is not defined, which is weird because this is the exact w...
I have found multiple threads with this issue but haven't found a solution.https://github.com/SirSamhain/FitBitTest/blob/master/companion/index.jsI have even created my own test api and i saw that it's actually getting hit and returning like it shoul...
We completed the development of our Fitbit sdk app for SDK-5 and SDK-4.2 and as suggested in the community previously that we should have the same appUUID. We did exactly as said. When testing it with iOS we got all the file transfer working correct...
I tried numerous ways to get a text file to my server from the watch/companion. There is no problem getting it to the companion, but it does not get to the server. I have verified the server code using fetch from a different WEB site and JS. The simu...
Hello Community, We are developing a SDK app to work with our virtual fitness application (both Android and iOS). I am trying to do a file transfer (json file) every 30 seconds to send the Heart Rate and Calorie details to the app to show on the app...
Hello, I'm trying to achieve data communication between companion app (SDK version ~4.1.0) and a web server running on localhost (Android 10), such that some RESTful APIs can be implemented later for data storage and analysis. Currently, I'm using t...
Hello All, I am developing an Fitbit app which uses the Excercise API. I am done developing the app. Things work fine as long as I am working with simulator. Now, I have installed the app on the device and also written a server code on my Android a...
My companion app used some network calls to handle OAuth. I noticed that it worked fine in Android and in the Simulator, but failed on iOS. After connecting an iPhone to the developer bridge, I saw error messages stating the btoa function could not...
Hi guys,I am developing an app that reminds users to take medication before they go to sleep and tracks if they have taken the medication in the required dosage period. I am very new to developing apps for FitBits, though I do have some knowledge of ...