Data API
Frequently asked questions on the Wellness and Medical APIs
- How do meal names differ between wellness sources?
- What wellness sources offer time series activity data?
- How do different wellness sources capture energy consumption and expenditure (calories, exercise, and basal metabolic rate)
- Why does Fitbit activity summaries return 0 steps across multiple days?
- How are Garmin calories calculated?
- What is the difference between activity segments and summaries?
- Wellness data does not update
- Why doesn't Fitbit intraday sum equal to the sum of the all values in day?
- Which wellness sources support sleep stages?
- How to resolve missing steps from Apple Health
- Where are Strava's steps and calories data?
- Which IP addresses are associated with notifications?
- Why is there no steps data for Strava?
- Which wellness sources provide specific food data?
- Where is food data entered in Apple Health?
- Why are Garmin activity summaries not available for my device?
- How quickly will I be able to get a user's wellness data?
- Is it possible to remove a user's data source through the API?
- Why are my Garmin calories different from what is displayed in Garmin Connect?
- "An error has occurred. Your account already connected to the app. Please try another account" when authenticating to Garmin
- Which wellness sources support floors climbed data?
- Why is my historical data still available even after I disconnect a source?
- Why is the value of meals sometimes set to ’00:00:00.00Z’?
- Where are the calories data from Dailymile?
- Can you get all medical data at once?
- How much historical wellness data is available?
- What are the Activity types for wellness sources
- What are the wellness "source" string values?
- What are the possible meal types?
- When are notifications sent?