• Fitbit by Google (Re: smart plugs???)

    From Lars Poulsen@21:1/5 to Lars Poulsen on Fri Jan 17 18:34:16 2025
    On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:53:38 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:
    I just discovered that in the last two weeks, as I replaced by Fitbit
    Charge 5 with a new Charge 6. It somehow would not show me the time when
    I had left my phone in the office while going out to get the mail from
    the mailbox at the driveway. Recovered once I was in Blluetooth range.
    Some datapoints can sync between the watch and the phone over BlueTooth,
    but "deeper stuff" like sleep analysis does indeed require connection to
    the Google servers.

    On 2025-01-17, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    Synching for me often shows a network connection is necessary and may
    require multiple restarts of the app. It's not very smooth. The latest feature, 'cardio load', has many people trying to figure out how it works
    and the prompts to get your lazy butt in gear are not appreciated.

    Cardio Load seems to be designed to induce people to "upgrade" to a paid Premium subscription. But like some other features releated to
    "exercise", it does not work with the machinery I use at the gym:
    Elliptical, Stairmaster and Treadmill. Tracking exercise insists that you
    must be moving, as measured by GPS, and the GPS map takes over the
    screen and prevents you from seeing heart rate, which is the most useful measurement in real time for me.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Lars Poulsen on Fri Jan 17 20:40:46 2025
    On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:34:16 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

    Cardio Load seems to be designed to induce people to "upgrade" to a paid Premium subscription. But like some other features releated to
    "exercise", it does not work with the machinery I use at the gym:
    Elliptical, Stairmaster and Treadmill. Tracking exercise insists that
    you must be moving, as measured by GPS, and the GPS map takes over the
    screen and prevents you from seeing heart rate, which is the most useful measurement in real time for me.

    That's the conclusion on the Fitbit subreddit. Half an hour on the stair stepper using the cardio feature to keep my HR up yielded 0 cardio load. A
    half hour walk outside at a lower average HR did better. I don't look at
    the watch or app when I'm moving so it's all after action data.

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