When I sync with Android, or whatever, does data get sent back to fitbit corporation? That seems like the kind of thing everybody wants these days -- high dimensional data about users. "Using the cloud" is synonumous with "populating their database." Mike On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Marc Thomas wrote: > Mike, > > I used a fitbit for a while last year (It broke and I haven't replaced > it yet). As of around October of 2013, there was no easy way to sync it > using Linux. I mainly would reboot my laptop into Mac OS to get the > syncing done, though towards the end my phone became my source of > syncing (Nexus 4). Many of the most popular iPhone and Android devices > can sync. Here's the currently supported list: > http://www.fitbit.com/devices > > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Are any of you using fitbit devices... >> >> http://www.fitbit.com/ >> >> ...with Linux?: >> >> http://lwn.net/Articles/532410/ >> >> It seems like it would be fun to have one to mess around with, but only >> if it plays well with Linux because I'm avoiding every other OS as much >> as possible.