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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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