Fitbit

stephenmelody

@s199 I also have this problem, only Steps is coming through. Did you manage to get it fixed?

stephenmelody

This is my output of getData.py

pi@Magic-Mirror:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-fitbit/python $ sudo python getData.py
{"message": "credentials.ini exists", "type": "status"}
{"message": "Reading from credentials.ini", "type": "status"}
{"message": "Read of credentials.ini successful.", "type": "status"}
{"message": "credentials.ini exists", "type": "status"}
{"message": "Reading from credentials.ini", "type": "status"}
{"message": "Read of credentials.ini successful.", "type": "status"}
{"message": "tokens.ini exists", "type": "status"}
{"message": "Reading from tokens.ini", "type": "status"}
{"message": "Read of tokens.ini successful.", "type": "status"}
{"message": "Making API call", "type": "status"}
{"message": "API call okay", "type": "status"}
{"message": "Tokens valid", "type": "status"}
{"values": {"data": 1649, "goal": 10000}, "resource": "steps", "type": "data"}
{"values": {"data": 0, "goal": 1}, "resource": "floors", "type": "data"}
pi@Magic-Mirror:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-fitbit/python $

pyrosmiley

For a little ways now, I’ve been running into an issue where, after running for a day or so, the module stops being able to update. It seems that it’s failing --for some odd reason-- to write the new Refresh Token, so when the Access token is expired, it needs to be re-authorized. I’ve looked through the code and I don’t know a whole lot but I cannot figure out why it’s doing what it’s doing. For now, I have this shell script set to run every night, and that seems to keep it running well enough. I’m sure there’s a better way but until I can get around to learning more, the kludgy way will do.

#!/bin/bash

export DISPLAY=:0
pm2 stop MagicMirror
python  ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-fitbit/python/setupAccess.py
killall chromium-browser
pm2 start MagicMirror

exit 0

The first line is there so that it can be run manually over SSH. I did have to log in manually once, but I just told chromium to remember me, so now I don’t have to do anything to re-grant access.

If anyone has a better fix, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Sandy2503

Hi.

I start the setupAccess.py and i have got an Error from Chromium Browser.

In the Message stands the the Chromium Browser starts as normal user and not as root.

How can i fix it ?

Sandy

MattSharp

Has anyone managed to get this installed on a Raspberry Pi Zero W using Jessie Lite?

When running setupAccess.py I can’t get anywhere as it doesn’t open a browser window so I can’t authenticate.

Any help appreciated.

Costi

@pyrosmiley I had the same issue and I could change it by setting new rights for the tokens.ini file. Set the rights for write to all (before this only for root access) and the new token can be written. Update works now, let’ see how long …

Achilles

Hello all,

Newbie here. I know I am late trying to put together a MagicMirror, but I just discovered this! Anyway, I am trying to put this Fitbit module on mine, and I when I run “sudo python setupAccess.py”, I get a “python: can’t open file ‘setupAccess.py’: [Errno 2] No such file or directory” error.

I am not sure where I have gone wrong here, as I have followed the instructions thus far found here:

https://github.com/SVendittelli/MMM-fitbit/blob/master/README.md

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Achilles

I fixed it. Newbie mistake, I was in the wrong directory when I tried to excute the command. Having problems now trying to get my steps to show, so I have pouring over all of the info here in the forum…thanks to all who have posted here

Achilles

I got it to work! Great module!

cambor

@achilles
@Vendittelli

Hi! I too am new to MagicMirror (and programming in general) and am trying to install the Fitbit module. Maybe as you have done it so recently you could help me please?

When I enter:

sudo pip install -r python/fitbit/requirements.txt

I get the following error message:

Could not open requirements file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘python/fitbit/requirements.txt’

Any idea what I am doing wrong or what I need to do?

Thanks!

Achilles

@cambor

I am no expert by any means, but did your:

npm install python-shell

step work?

cambor

@achilles Thanks for getting back to me. Yes that step worked and now I have figured out I was in the wrong directory when running sudo pip install -r python/fitbit/requirements.txt. I was trying to do that step out of sequence before following the preceding steps in the Setup instructions.

I am facing another issue now though: I’ve added the example config to my config but when I try to run the MagicMirror it throws an error
“Please create a config file…If you get this message while your config is already created, you config file probably contains an error…”

I saw there was issues with the brackets after “config” in line 4 of the example config file and people have suggested replacing the [ with { and again on line 19 ] with } but it still doesn’t work.

Now I see some people are saying there are issues with the fitbit API (https://github.com/SVendittelli/MMM-fitbit/issues/15) but those comments are from January so I’d be interested to hear about how you got yours working so recently and if you can see where I might be going wrong.

Thanks a lot!

Achilles

Every time I have got that error, it has been because I have something wrong with the syntax: Curly braces incorrect, double quotes where there should be single quotes, comma missing, etc. Does every open bracket or curly brace have a corresponding closing bracket or curly brace?

bhepler

@cambor - Easiest thing to do is to copy the example config.js.sample file to config.js and modify it incrementally. After each modification to the file, you can reload the mirror and make sure you haven’t introduced an error.

If you like, you can post the MMM-fitbit section of your config.js here and we’ll see if we spot anything. Be sure to use the markdown features of the forum to aid in troubleshooting.

Achilles

Has anyone’s Fitbit module stopped working recently? For some reason, mine is not displaying anything anymore–just 0s. This started about a week ago…

bhepler

@achilles - That happened to me about three weeks ago. I had to get back on the mirror and run the setupAccess.py script to authorize with fitbit.com again. After that it started working again. You’ll probably find an indication of what’s up in the pm2 logs.

Fitbit is weird in that they insist that you use their website to authenticate. You can’t get an API key for you app. Your app must incorporate a means to go to their website to use their interface and then return.

Achilles

@bhepler - At the risk of sounding stupid, you have to go back and run through the commands again and get to setupAcess.py to get Fitbit to work again?

bhepler

@achilles - Almost. You just have to run the setupAccess.py again. So get onto your Pi directly, open up a terminal window, stop your MagicMirror process, and run the sudo python setupAccess.py or whatever the command is. It will open up a browser window with the FitBit login page. Log in with your credentials, wait for the confirmation screen and then close the browser.

Restart your MagicMirror process and it should start pulling from the FitBit service.

Achilles

@bhepler Thanks! That helped. I guess this means I can look forward to doing this every month or so?

bhepler

@achilles - I don’t actually know. Mine was up for months with no issue. It may be that a prolonged period without the module refreshing the tokens is the determining factor. It may even be something on Fitbit’s end expired all of the tokens.