Raspberry Pi meets a Fitbit One and Galileo

[stevepdp]

I recently discovered that Fitbit One syncing is now achievable on Linux, thanks to a wonderful tool called Galileo. Here's a brief tutorial demonstrating my Raspberry Pi powered nightly syncing setup.

First, install python-usb and python-pip like so:

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sudo apt-get install python-usb python-pip

Then, you need to fetch Galileo, which is the tool that provides syncing functionality. It's as simple as so:

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sudo pip install galileo

Running galileo requires sudo, but we can get around that limitation by adding a simple udev rule. Create and add the following to /etc/udev/rules.d/99-fitbit.rules

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SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="2687", ATTR{idProduct}=="fb01", SYMLINK+="fitbit", MODE="0666"

At this point, you should be in a good position to test Galileo. Plug in the Fitbit's USB bluetooth module and then run "galileo" as a normal user. You should see something like the following:

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1 trackers found, 0 skipped, 1 successfully synchronized

Now this is all great, but what I want is to be able to automate this process using cron. Running "crontab -e" and appending the following line at the bottom of the script will set everything up:

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0 3 * * * galileo

And that's it. The Raspberry Pi file server in my bedroom should now automatically sync my Fitbit too every night at 03:00. Zero effort required

[mariosangiorgio]

Thanks for your instructions. I followed them (with minor adaptations) on my Raspberri Pi running ArchLinux and it is working perfectly.

I'm only a bit disappointed because my device sends encrypted data to the server so I cannot really get back my data as I wanted to do when I started this project.

Are you analysing ins some way the dumps?

[raspi-user.france]

It's working for me in principle fine as well - so many thanks to all the people developing it!

One more, final step I would like to achieve is to have it run automatically (even after a reboot) as a daemon. There is a daemon option for galileo but I could not figure out how to setup the init.d part to have it run through the init process. Any ideas by anyone how to enable this properly?