CurbsTickleSep 7, 2023

Anyone know of a good HR chest strap that supports health connect, and doesn't require you to track an exercise with their app to use it?

https://lemmy.world/post/4622669

Anyone know of a good HR chest strap that supports health connect, and doesn't require you to track an exercise with their app to use it? - Lemmy.world

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?

Show threadJustEnoughDucksSep 7, 2023

Hey there,

This isn’t about your issue specifically, but if you are serious about tracking your heart rate, you shouldn’t use a tidbit anyway, especially during workouts most fitbits have less than 70% accuracy. In moderate activities, it is still under 85% accurate. Using the H10 is important if you want some form of accuracy and don’t have an Apple watch & iPhone.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCDhtnxkuao&

For your actual question, I don’t use Jefit, but it seems like they don’t have toklo much flexibility from some Google searching. You could try syncing to Google fit from Strava because it can directly take heart rate from the H10 and has a strength profile instead and see if that plays nicer?

Many fitness apps can do heart rate. It is on the developer to integrate it or play nice with Google fit. It seems like a lot of strength apps fall short on this a hit.

Show threadundercrust
This is the only answer. The H10 is the only HRM that is worth a damn for accuracy.
Sep 7, 2023 at 4:40pmWeb
Show threadCurbsTickleSep 7, 2023

It does sync automatically with Google/Fitbit services.

It supports Google Fit. It does not support Health Connect.

Show threadSl00kSep 14, 2023
Have you checked out Health Sync? That’s what I used to sync before just syncing directly to Strava/Fit from Polar Beat
Show threadCurbsTickleSep 18, 2023
I haven’t, but looks promising! Will check it out thanks