Hey folks

I have a fitbit, which I use for HR, step tracking, and HIIT workouts I do on off days, and I use Jefit for my main strength training. With some recent changes to increase effort/HR during my strength training, the extra sweatiness of me is making my fitbit not work as well for HR during workouts.

I have specific cardio goals to meet, so getting relatively good data on my HR is important to me. I have a Polar H10 I could use, but I’d need to use Beat/Flow, which will then cause sync issues with Jefit and its own data going to Google Fit (I’ve had fun with this in the past).

I don’t have this issue with Fitbit, since rather than a Fit sync, its Health Connect, and just syncs the data throughout the day in the background, and I don’t sync activities from Fitbit.

Any ideas?

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
    2·
    10 months ago

    Yeah but health connect literally just got rolled out earlier this year. The app list is extremely short. Google might kill it in the next year or two also. It apparently is also only available on newer phones in the pixel line (4 phones or something?)

    Everyone will have to wait until it is integrated with other apps, but it doesn’t seem like it will be a priority just like how Material You hasn’t been a huge priority for many apps. Maybe putting pressure on the devs would do something?

    • CurbsTickle@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      There has been quite a bit of interest on polar forums to support health connect - I’m almost at the point of dealing with Polar’s SDK just to do it myself and be done.

      The list isn’t exactly small though - aside from Fitbit (which obviously would support it, because Google), Samsung Health, MyFitnessPal, Peloton, Flo, Signos, Proov, Tonal, Oura, Withings, etc all support Health Connect already. Not exactly a small list. Fitbit and Withings are two I use regularly

      In my opinion, despite liking their physical products, Polar has always lagged behind pretty far in the app realm.