fitbit.exceptions.HTTPServerError when setting alarm.

[shaunakg]

I'm getting an exception from python with the following code:

# authorization code goes before this, etc. Note that fb = fitbit
reccurance = ['MONDAY','TUESDAY','WEDNESDAY','THURSDAY','FRIDAY','SATURDAY','SUNDAY']
device_id = '123456789' # In the actual program this is a real device ID
fb.add_alarm(device_id, alarm_time, reccurance, recurring=False, enabled=True, label='Find Device Alarm', snooze_length=None, snooze_count=None, vibe='DEFAULT')

I've checked datetime formats and everything, but it still gives me the following output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "PATH\TO\MY\PROGRAM\main.py", line 29, in <module>
    fb.add_alarm(device_id, alarm_time, reccurance, recurring=False, enabled=True, label='Find Device Alarm', snooze_length=None, snooze_count=None, vibe='DEFAULT')
  File "C:\Users\somebody\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\fitbit\api.py", line 716, in add_alarm
    return self.make_request(url, data=data, method="POST")
  File "C:\Users\somebody\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\fitbit\api.py", line 223, in make_request
    response = self.client.make_request(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\somebody\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\fitbit\api.py", line 99, in make_request
    exceptions.detect_and_raise_error(response)
  File "C:\Users\somebody\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\fitbit\exceptions.py", line 94, in detect_and_raise_error
    raise HTTPServerError(response)
fitbit.exceptions.HTTPServerError: An error occurred with the Fitbit Web API while processing the request. Error id: A29E0282:7651_A92D91CB:01BB_59D3331F_4A63FA7:3D47

Any help with this? My program is just to set an alarm 20 seconds after the current time.

NB: Other commands like get_devices() and get_alarms() do work.

[LEXmono]

You are not including the timezone in your request. Per the code, alarm_time should be a timezone aware datetime object.

You can do this with another module called pytz.

import pytz

tz = pytz.timezone("US/Eastern")
alarm_time = datetime.datetime(2017, 10, 21, 16, 0)
alarm_time = tz.localize(alarm_time, is_dst=None)

reccurance = ['MONDAY','TUESDAY','WEDNESDAY','THURSDAY','FRIDAY','SATURDAY','SUNDAY']
device_id = '########' # In the actual program this is a real device ID
client.add_alarm(device_id, alarm_time, reccurance, recurring=False, enabled=True, label='Find Device Alarm', snooze_length=None, snooze_count=None, vibe='DEFAULT')

{'trackerAlarm': {'alarmId': ##########,
'deleted': False,
'enabled': True,
'label': 'Find Device Alarm',
'recurring': False,
'snoozeCount': 1,
'snoozeLength': 9,
'syncedToDevice': False,
'time': '16:00-04:00',
'vibe': 'DEFAULT',
'weekDays': []}}

[shaunakg]

Thank you for this.