Fitbit Zip with Mint?

[notthenewsreader]

Hi guys, I really hope someone can help me. I bought a Fitbit Zip the other day and have since found out that in order to set it up, I have to be using Windows or Mac. I have read that some people have managed to connect it natively with Linux. I have scoured many different forums and even tried running the program under Wine (which didn't work at all). Does anyone know how I can get this to work? Please help. I am running Mint 16 KDE 64.

Many thanks

[pdc_2]

Hi; not sure if you are still watching your post; (or if you have subscribed to it..as per thumbnail below!)

there is a guide here

http://danbrag.com/2014/01/fitbit-one-a ... an-how-to/

which involves a series of carefully carried out steps ......... the author, Dan Bragilevsky, is hoping he says to post an update soon

you might need a bit of help translating some of it: linux is for adults so you need to decide if you wish to follow Dan's steps: my take of Dan's commands is:
sudo apt-get install python-usb
sudo apt-get install python-requests

....then download the package pyusb-master.zip and so the commands are; having downloaded it.........

cd Downloads
unzip pyusb-master.zip

that creates a directory pyusb-master that you need to get inside so ..

cd pyusb-master

and then issue the command

sudo python setup.py install

then download the Galileo script that comes down as benallard-galileo-6e1468909029.zip from here https://bitbucket.org/benallard/galileo

if you happy to keep it in Downloads, fine.......... then if you close the terminal; open it again and paste cd Downloads and then

5. unzip benallard-galileo-6e1468909029.zip

that creates a directory called benallard-galileo-6e1468909029

in Dan's post, a reply from Jen says .........you don't need to edit the rules file and its name is now 99-fitbit.rules so next step is

7. then sudo cp 99-fitbit.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

unplug fitbit zip device and then plug it in again .............

8. In the galileo folder, as your user, NOT ROOT, run ./galileo.py so I take that to be close terminal; open again and paste cd Downloads/benallard-galileo-6e1468909029 and once there ./galileo.py

at that stage I leave further guidance directly to Dan's page:

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and also in Dan's comment section is this post http://linuxaria.com/article/how-to-syn ... ux?lang=en where linuxaria says it got it working on Mint 16: you might like to read through his how-to; comparing and contrasting to above may help you get it all working by one way or another

[mikeinsantarosa]

Hey pdc_2 I am trying to follow you directions (thanks btw!) A couple things, after downloading the latest benallard-galileo and unzipping, there isn't a galileo.py in the folder to run. The latest galileo from that page (https://bitbucket.org/benallard/galileo) is benallard-galileo-9b6581db5ed9.zip so something's changed. I can't seem to find any docs on this change...

any ideas?
thanks
Mike