Installing Withings Scale in Linux
September 21, 2011 – 9:12 pmI recently made the permanent switch to Linux on my laptop and honestly I couldn’t be happier. However I still get stuck here and there. Tonight I realized that my Withings Scale (which I previously blogged about) was no longer synced due to a recent router change. I decided to reinstall it with my linux laptop but got stuck and didn’t find a good step-by-step tutorial online to help so I thought I would create one:
A step by step to install the Withings Scale on Linux.
- Plug your Withings Scale into your computer via USB
- Go to my.withings.com
- Login (or register if this is your first install)
- Go to My Account and then click Install new scale
- Click configure my scale
- Download the file (which should be named pairingwizard_Linux_x86_64)
- Open up Terminal
- Navigate to the file download location for me it was in Downloads
- The file is a bin file so you need to chmod +x the file before opening, I typed “chmod +x pairingwizard_Linux_x86_64″
- Then run the file as root (do so by typing “sudo ./pairingwizard_Linux_x86_64″
- This should open the GUI install wizard
- Click next, find your network, Enter your wap/wep key if you have one, click next and you should be finished.
