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Re: Fitbit

 

You could look at the source for Galileo, they seemed to get the reverse
engineering done, but it still requires the dongle, though that may not be
a hard requirement
On May 9, 2015 8:28 PM, "Michael Zanetti" <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> yeah, it's sad that we can't sync the FitBit using the phone. I've
> spent a bit of time to figure how to talk to the device using
> Bluetooth, but didn't get really far. The running services are not
> documented and not chatty enough to make reverse engineering something
> reasonable to do. Also my requests to fitbit.com haven't been
> answered. So I'm afraid using the provided dongle on a PC is the only
> possible solution for the time being.
>
> However, once you've set up some syncing both, the scope and uFit,
> should start reporting data.
>
> Let me know how it goes.
>
> Michael Zanetti
>
> On 10.05.2015 00:16, Wayne Ward wrote:
> >
> > now thats ashame i thought it might follow my tracks from my phone
> > ill take a look at galiloe though this needs to track steps etc
> > from gps .... :)
> >
> > Wayne On 09/05/15 23:12, Chris Wayne wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Wayne, Unfortunately the scope and the app only pull data from
> >> Fitbit.com, as that's all their api allows.  I've just been
> >> syncing on my desktop (check out Galileo for syncing from Ubuntu
> >> desktop).
> >>
> >> Thanks Chris
> >>
> >> On May 9, 2015 5:53 PM, "wayne Ward" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> <mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi bit random but I've got fitbit and ufit installed, its part
> >> of the today scope and I have it open but it doesn't seem to
> >> track me.. Im logged in etc.. Is there a way for it to do this or
> >> does in not have this feature yet ?
> >>
> >> Wayne -- Sent using Dekko from my Ubuntu device
> >>
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