Fitbit

MechMatt

nvm i figured it out lol… someday i wont be pi-tarded

paviro

@MechMatt if you find something out yourself it is always great to describe what you did, so others having the same problem can benefit from it even if it may be trivial! :slight_smile:

Vendittelli

@MechMatt What exactly was ambiguous? So I can make it easier for others in the future!

MechMatt

@Vendittelli I wasn’t sure about installing a custom module. I realized it was pretty simple after a quick googling:

Navigate to modules folder
Type: git clone .git

MichMich

This is something very MagicMirror Generic. Maybe we should add something about this in the Readme?

Vendittelli

@MichMich Good idea, I’ll can add details on wiki’s modules page. Just the basic ‘cd’ then ‘git clone’. Then any extra stuff can just be listed for each module on their own repos.

MechMatt

@Vendittelli I’ll be happy to assume the role here as the guy who makes sure everything is idiot proof :D

Vendittelli

@MechMatt I put a basic run through on the wiki page, feel free to adapt it to make it more new user friendly

MichMich

@Vendittelli Thanks!

A Former User

Would something similar be possible with Google Fit? There’s a REST API: https://developers.google.com/fit/rest/

ascension

This Module is driving me insane… Magic Mirror doesn’t start if I add the module script to my config.js as it is written in the example config.js. I can only get it to work by removing “Credentials: {” ,replacing the “[” from the previous line (config:[) with “{” and replacing the matching “]” with"}" . Magic Mirror will then run with the fitbit module displayed on screen with zeros for every field. It simply won’t update. I get “null” value errors and the .py script overwrites my credentials.ini file with empty spaces, I assume because of the missing “credentials” line in my config.js. I simply cannot make it work with any modification of the “credentials” line that I’ve tried. I’d really appreciate some help on this…

ascension

@ascension
Made some progress by replacing braces with swirly brackets. The script moves further along and my credentials.ini gets updated. Running setupAccess.py is sucessful, it brings up a fitbit page which requests authorization, but even when I approve it, tokens.ini isn’t populated, fitbit app reads all zeros, and terminal returns error " There was an uncaught exception…{ [Error: process exited with code 1] executable: ‘python’, options: null, script: ‘modules/MMM-fitbit/python/getdata.py’, args: null, exitCode: 1}.

Maldras

same problem

ascension

@Maldras
I’ve mostly resolved the issue. I’ve still got to work out an issue with my access token not updating, but I think that may be down to an intermittent connectivity issue. My resolution started with the knowledge that the documentation for the module is a bit lacking… there is a list of underlying dependencies, also a" requirements.txt" which one would assume would verify all requirements are satisfied. This doesn’t seem to be the case. I first clicked on the fitbit dependency listed on the fitbit module. Once I navigated to it’s Github page, I cloned it to my MM modules folder. To be sure I didn’t have an issue of broken references, etc, I checked the files in the new python folder against those in MMM - fitbit/python folder, copy/pasting those files that were missing from the 2nd folder. There is a procedure for resolving this issue which If you have the issue I had is caused by an authentication failure listed on a webpage I found. Its a good read, but not all of the listed procedures were necessary. I’m listing what I did from memory, so hopefully I get it right… first, the site: http://pdwhomeautomation.blogspot.com/2016/01/fitbit-api-access-using-oauth20-and.html?m=1. When I copy/pasted from the folder created by the newer cloned Git, I saw that some files he lists were missing. One I had to create myself. I copied the script from the linked page (the first script listed in all green), saving it to my MMM-fitbit/python folder as “runthis.py”. I ran "setupAccess’, which opened a page whose url started with https://127.0.0.1, and ended with 2 long strings separated by “code” and I think some other text. I copied the entire url. Opened “runthis.py” and filled in client Id, secret, and the first code/key from the copied url. Be aware of the syntax in the script before editing. Double quotes, etc. Once edited run this script. Unless I’ve forgotten something your should get access tokens, Which will be listed in the script results window. Copy them. Be sure to get entire auth token and refresh token. Open tokens.ini. The tokens have likely been copied there already, but if not add them, without quotes. Assuming I haven’t forgotten anything, running “getdata.py” should now be successful, listing the retrieved data assuming your fitbit has been synched - it’ll only pull data if your fitbit dashboard shows data. Somewhere in the previously listed steps, you should be directed to the fitbit page which will advise you that you are now authorized.
I’m not near my pc, and as I’ve mentioned this is all from memory. I can try to assist further if I’ve left something out…

ascension

@ascension
Forgot to mention that you will need to create “tokens.ini” if you haven’t already. Editing the existing “tokens.ini.sample” won’t give the desired result when running the script, since it’s looking for “tokens.ini”.

onetwankyfive

Is the first code/key part the part inbetween the code= &state= or the entire thing? I can’t seem to get this workaround to work.

ascension

@onetwankyfive
Just the first part.

kckndrgn

Lots of good info to try out. I failed at getting this working this morning before leaving for work.

I do have a question. The directions say MM has to be started with sudo, i’m starting it by running ‘pm2 start mm’ per the MM install setup. How do I run this as root?

Thanks

kckndrgn

OK, So I’m working on this and being new to MM, NodeJS, GIT, etc. is not helping :) (I am a programmer, so at least I have that going for me).
Something that I don’t think was too clear, at least it wasn’t for me. When running setupAccess.py, it’s starting a web service, the direction say to log into your fitbit account and authorize your app, what I had to do, on my Pi, was to go to 127.0.0.1:8080. This initiated the redirect to Fitbit, when I logged in I had the check boxes to enable/disable items and the allow/deny buttons.
When I clicked on the “allow” then the terminal with setupAccess running showed that the tokens were getting written out, and indeed the tokens.ini file was finally created.

kckndrgn

I’m having a problem with my fitbit module. (mods if this should be a new thread just let me know).
I can start the MM and the FB data loads, then after a time my ‘credentials.ini’ file gets changed to “undefined” for both entries

[Credentials]
c_id = undefined
c_secret = undefined

Now, when I ran setupAccess.py the file was correct and my tokens file was created. What I’m seeing happen is that after a while the FB module stops refreshing. I’m guessing it’s because the tokens need to be refreshed and because my credentials are gone, it can’t authorize.

Any thoughts?
I’m not sure how to get any logs or info out of the system. I’m running MM through pm2 and I don’t see any log files.

TIA