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A comment on Ask HN: Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable?.

Re:Ask HN: Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable? by nl on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:03AM (#15823843)
Don't the Garmin watches still have USB access to the file system?

The old ones did, and even the newest Garmin Edge series cycling computers let you do this. They run (mostly) the same firmware as the (high-end) watches, so I'd be surprised if they don't.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable? by bitexploder on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:30AM (#15823989)
Yes. At least my Fenix 3 and Fenix 5X do. You can write apps for it. So it is hackable in that sense.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable? by kuon on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:27AM (#15823972)
That would be interesting to know. As long as the files are not obfuscated too much that could be a solution (I'd like to avoid having to reverse engineer a binary format).
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Re:Ask HN: Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable? by asandweech on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:38AM (#15824036)
Activities are stored in the FIT format, which is publicly documented and they have a rather easy to use sdk available for it as well[0]. Its fairly trivial to get other daily metrics out of the watch as well using Connect IQ, you can even write out to a plain text log file if you want.

[0]: https://www.thisisant.com/resources/fit/

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable? by kuon on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:41AM (#15824052)
That's great. Filesystem access and open format.
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