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I really like wearing real watches, but I still want to pay attention to health and activity, so I’ve been wearing a Fitbit luxe on my other wrist.

It’s been fine so far, battery life is good, seems to be reliable.

However, what drives me nuts on this thing is that I distinctly DON’T want it to be a watch, I just want the stats on the face, and there is absolutely no option for the watch face that doesn’t include a huge current time on the front.

I wish there was a device with this exact form factor, but was just programmable. Call it OpenFit or something.




Fitbit does have it's own SDK, that you can use to write both apps and watch faces. In theory you could create a watch face that met your needs.

The SDK is pure JavaScript and seems friendly enough (I only got a few examples working and lost interest) - https://dev.fitbit.com/build/tutorials/examples/

I don't know if the SDK can target the luxe BTW


yeah unfortunately it seems to only be available for their larger devices, which is a bummer because the way I'm using mine, I intentionally want it to not look like a watch but instead more like a bracelet so I don't look like some weirdo wearing two watches :)




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