I was up at 5 a.m. this morning due to gallstones. Not my gallstones, mind you.
Since I was up, I went about my usual morning routine, which includes the daily weigh-in on my trusty Fitbit Aria scale. There were shenanigans.
It began after the weigh-in, when it failed to sync my weight to the Fitbit Google hivemind. Yesterday I installed a new Wi-Fi hub and because the app for setting it up would not allow spaces in the Wi-Fi network name, it changed slightly, thus forcing us to manually reconnect every device on our Wi-Fi network. Hooray.
Remembering this, I figured I’d have to run the setup for the Aria scale to get it connected to the new space-free Wi-Fi network.
- I put the scale in setup mode
- I launch the Fitbit app on my phone
- The Fitbit app says the Aria scale is no longer supported, set it up through a web browser, chump
- I follow the link provided
- I go through the process, which requires treating the Aria as a new device
- I get to the last step, entering the password for our Wi-Fi
- I watch as it joins the network
- I watch as it fails with an ERR message. That’s all, just ERR. Like it is clearing its throat.
- I start the process over from the beginning, as there is no other way to do just the joining part again
- I get another ERR
- I try again, more ERR
- I get angry
- I become resigned
- I decide not to spend more of my time chasing an unspecified error on no-longer-supported hardware
- I record my weight, because it still actually does that part
- I think about getting a non-Fitbit scale again
UPDATE: I remembered the Aria connects via Wi-Fi via a USB receiver on the Windows PC. Said PC was not connected to the new Wi-Fi network, so maybe that was the issue? I have fixed this and will try getting the scale working again tomorrow. It’ll be fun.
