How do I get my Fitbit synched with MFP @ 11:59 p.m.

beulah81

I posted this in the Fitbit group but it's not as active as this forum. So, I go to bed around 10 p.m. It's usually the time when I sync my Fitbit. MFP picks up that sync. My adjustments for the day always stop at the time when I sync it last. Is there a "trick" to get it synced @11:59 p.m. so my food journal is updated and my weekly goal is not scewed? When I wake up in the morning I usually sync my Fitbit first and then open and sync MFP, and the figures at the end of the prior day never match up. MFP always reflects projected burn up to 10:00 p.m. sync.

Duck_Puddle

Reach out to support. When you sync the next morning. It should be updating the prior day’s numbers to show your complete day’s actual calorie total (It will say 11:59 not 12:00).

Occasionally I’ve had it skip out and never fully update the prior day-but that’s like 10-15 days total over 5-ish years.

PAV8888

Suspect your manual sync may be the issue.

There is an "issue" with things updating if the difference is more than xxx calories.

One idea may be for you to do your manual sync earlier, say at 20:00 or 21:00, ensuring that on your next sync the difference the previous day to midnight would exceed xxx thus forcing the update.

@heybales I think has measured what it takes for a change to appear!

<I just sync automatically and experience similarly to @Duck_Puddle >

heybales

That's really odd actually that a manual device sync to Fitbit account always causes an MFP sync too.

Unless it's merely the fact the device sync informs your Fitbit account you've burned much more than prior manual sync.

MFP has in their API's syncs should only come when 100 cal higher than prior sync.
So if manually syncing device that could easily be why it indeed matches up and is to be expected.

But indeed, the first sync the next day is supposed to finish out prior day.

10 pm means there should be over 100 cal more burned in the day, so correction should be done. Have you looked back over prior/prior day?
Making just taking longer.

Are time zones matched up along with time on device?

beulah81

@Duck_Puddle,@PAV8888 and @heybales thank you so much for your insightful replies!
@PAV8888 I will try syncing @ 8 or 9 p.m. and see if it solves the problem.
@heybales
[Have you looked back over prior/prior day?]
Yes, same problem.
[Are time zones matched up along with time on device?]
Yes.
A little background. I just reconnected my Zip with MFP a couple of days ago from trying out TDEE based goal for a month. Prior to this past month my Fitbit and MFP were connected for months. I had the same problem then as well. Although there were some days when both accounts synched at 11:59 p.m. It was very inconsistent. So I used both apps for my calorie target goal.

PAV8888

As a possible work around, instead of manually updating, enable auto update connection once you're home and durable as you leave?


Should make the midnight and morning data points before you've turned it off for the day...

heybales

I used Zip too on manual sync, I think because I didn't have correct BT profile on phone - not that I'd want auto-syncs all day anyway. No real need to know numbers until evening after workouts for me anyway.

I got into an issue too that whenever I did sync, it seemed to be my only good sync of the day. Couldn't get another one to go from Fitbit to MFP.

MFP tech support said something was odd with profiles, it appeared mis-matched timezones which blocked the new data coming in that Fitbit was trying to send.
Didn't make sense that a mismatch should be a block - just have wrong info.

Anyway, the timezone as it read was matching on both sides - tech support never corrected it or figured out issue.

After disconnecting accounts, issue remained when I linked Garmin. Also set to manual update from Garmin to their account.

MFP still said other side was at fault, but now I know it's my account here.

So I learned to make that last sync later - and the next day sync never corrected prior day.

It would be interesting to know if going to some auto-sync for a day allowed it to work correctly - perhaps it is a setting on Fitbit side.

PAV8888

PAV8888 wrote: »

As a possible work around, instead of manually updating, enable auto update connection once you're home and durable disable auto-update as when you leave?
Should make the midnight and morning data points before you've turned it off for the day...

Fixed it for me

beulah81

Alas, it looks like at this point I'll be logging on here for CI and use Fitbit app for TDEE #'s. I like the feature of NET calorie goal MFP provides but it's too much hassle to use it this way.