Main features
- Synchronize your fitbit tracker with the fitbit server using the provided dongle.
- Securely communicate (using HTTPS) with the fitbit server.
- Save all your dumps locally for possible later analyse.
| Author: | Benoît Allard <benoit.allard@gmx.de> |
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| Version: | 0.5dev |
| license: | LGPLv3+ |
| bug tracker: | https://bitbucket.org/benallard/galileo/issues |
| mailing list: | galileo@freelists.org (subscribe, archive) |
Galileo is a Python utility to securely synchronize a Fitbit device with the Fitbit web service. It allows you to browse your data on their website, and compatible applications.
All Bluetooth-based trackers are supported. Those are:
Note
The Fitbit Ultra tracker is not supported as it communicates using the ANT protocol. To synchronize it, please use libfitbit.
This utility is mainly targeted at Linux because Fitbit does not provide any Linux-compatible software, but as Python is cross-platform and the libraries used are available on a broad variety of platforms, it should not be too difficult to port it to other platforms.
Warning
If you want to run the utility as a non-root user, you will have to install the udev rules manually (See The more complicated way, or follow the instructions given when it fails).
$ pip install galileo $ galileo
Note
If you don't want to install this utility system-wide, you may want to install it inside a virtualenv, the behaviour will not be affected.
The following Linux distributions have packages available for installation:
First, you need to clone this repository locally, and install the required dependencies:
You should copy the file 99-fitbit.rules to the directory /etc/udev/rules.d in order to be able to run the utility as a non-root user.
Don't forget to:
Then simply run the run script located at the root of this repository.
If your system uses systemd then there is an example unit file in the contrib directory that you may wish to customize.
For the moment, this README (and the --help command line option) is the main documentation we have. The wiki is meant to gather technical information about the project like the communication protocol, or the format of the dump. Once this information reached a suffficient level of maturation, the goal is to integrate it into the project documentation. So head-on there, and start sharing your findings !
Manual pages for the galileo(1) utility and the galileorc(5) configuration file are provided within the doc directory.
Special thanks to the folks present @ the issue 46 of libfitbit.
Especialy to sansneural for https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwJmJQV9_KRcSE0ySGxkbG1PbVE/edit and Ingo Lütkebohle for http://pastebin.com/KZS2inpq.
Fitbit is a registered trademark and service mark of Fitbit, Inc. galileo is designed for use with the Fitbit platform. This product is not put out by Fitbit, and Fitbit does not service or warrant the functionality of this product.