fitbit-sim-starter

Start Fitbit simulator with wine in a docker container on Linux

The starter launches a container from image "bingtimren/fitbit-simulator:linux_wine_latest". Dockerfile can be found here: https://github.com/bingtimren/fitbit-simulator-linux-wine-image.

The image was inspired by rennomarcus's docker image https://github.com/rennomarcus/dockerimages/tree/master/fitbitos. Thank you Marcus!

The starter launches the container with necessary settings and sets xhost to allow container uses the host's GUI.

To use, run npx fitbit-sim-starter

To upgrade to latest docker image, run npx fitbit-sim-starter -u -r

By default the container connects to the host's X server via a socket connection. However, some docker installations are built to limit file access to $HOME (VirtualBox, boot2docker, Docker installed from snap https://snapcraft.io/docker), not allowing containers to access the socket. In this case, the starter launches the container to use the host's network stack.

After simulater starts up, you can press ctrl+c to return to console.

For more usage, see npx fitbit-sim-starter -h

Issues

After fitbit simulator upgraded to 0.8.3, the container consumes 100% CPU. The GUI feels a bit sluggish and the noise of CPU cooling fan could be annoying, but it's useable. If you can come up with a better working docker image, please let me know.

Otherwise, you can use '-i' option to designate simulator 0.8.2 image, and '-l' option to prevent simulator from upgrading.

npx fitbit-sim-starter -r -u -i bingtimren/fitbit-simulator:linux_wine_v0_8_2 -l

Sometimes the simulator times out and fails to load. You can press ctrl+c and run it again. You can also run npx fitbit-sim-starter -r to reset the container.

You may want to be able to run docker commands without sudo, see https://github.com/sindresorhus/guides/blob/master/docker-without-sudo.md