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> refused to allow users to download their data > instead of having it uploaded to FitBit's servers I download my monthly data from the fitbit server into Libr
by dxbydt 2y ago
> refused to allow users to download their data
> instead of having it uploaded to FitBit's servers
I download my monthly data from the fitbit server into LibreOffice. I have about 2 million steps on my fitbit. I have csv files going back to 2019 ever since I purchased the fitbit. They've made a nice dashboard, with some badges. I share the dashboard with friends, bit of a social competitive streak. If I were to directly download the data from the fitbit to my ubuntu desktop, I would have to write a fileparser & then make a dashboard & all that...not interested. I want to walk, not do software in my offtime.
- autoexec 2y agoThey could just as easily given people the option to not use their website while still letting those who wanted to use it. Whatever google does now though is a different story entirely. My personal preference back in 2008 would have been the ability to pull raw data off the device, but also for it to include an accompanying CD with some basic software to generate pretty graphs or whatever locally. It'd be easy enough to text/page/email a friend with the number of steps I logged for the previous day, or even write up something that would let us share/graph our results together. Admittedly, I actually do enjoy writing software in my offtime though. I'd like to think that if if things had been different there'd have been several open source options for visualizing, tracking, and sharing FitBit data for those who couldn't or didn't feel like writing their own.