Re:Fitbit Firmware Modifications and Data Extraction [video]
by jimrandomh on Sunday December 31, 2017 @11:04AM
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Fitbit's software makes it very hard to get logs of heart-rate and step count data at smaller than a full-day granularity. I think this is because they know that if people looked at that data, they'd realize it was horribly inaccurate and complain. That's certainly been my experience when I've tried to spot check data from my Fitbit Blaze.
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Re:Fitbit Firmware Modifications and Data Extraction [video]
by noarchy on Sunday December 31, 2017 @11:54AM
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I think there's probably something to this. Plenty of people complain about the HRM, myself among them. Weird things like spikes of 170+ bpm while doing nothing but walking, while at the same time recording 100 bpm while doing sprints? Pretty normal on the Fitbit, in my experience.
Re:Fitbit Firmware Modifications and Data Extraction [video]
by phillc73 on Sunday December 31, 2017 @12:46PM
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The step counts are completely inaccurate. I have the flu and haven't left the house all day. My Charge 2 HR tells me I've done 4,044 steps. Not likely.
What I've always wondered is if it is consistently inaccurate. I really don't care if it thinks I've done 4,044 steps today, when maybe I've done 200 if I'm lucky. However, when I do go and do 4,000 steps, does the cumulative total then show 8,044, or some other figure?