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Home Health Compatible Scale
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A bit disappointing. I'm tired of the million and one apps for stuff, I just want to use Apple's native stuff.
Apple Health is just a one stop shop app for third party devices/apps, just like HomeKit for smart home devices but there are some metrics that directly integrate like HR and Sleep (if you have an Apple Watch) FWIW, I use the Withings Body+ and it does integrate nicely with Apple Health. Until Apple starts manufacturing their own health devices, not sure if we’ll see this. HealthKit Secure Metrics would be cool though, like HomeKit Secure Video.
the withings scale in the apple store has wifi, You do need their app to set it up, but once that's done it updates to their servers via wifi, which will push updates to your phone.
I purchased their blood pressure cuff in the past couple weeks, it works pretty well, I did have to read the manual though, as it doesn't automatically push the reading, you have to select a user before it sends. It's easy to do, but not intuitive.
It is a little slow though, readings can take a few hours to show in the health app, I don't know why though as they'll appear in their app fairly quickly. I'll have readings appear in their app, but not show in the health app for a while. I'm still trying to figure out the timing.
The setup was a little kludgy, when signing up it made me enter a weight (which I approximated), then it asked to sync with HealthKit, it pushed that entered weight into health, I had to go into both apps and delete that one entry, and then the witihings app pulled the correct weight from health. If you're going to sync anyway, don't ask for a manual entry until after you've checked.
(my scale is a weightgurus, but it's bluetooth to the app, so you must have their app open to push readings, but they also instantly show up in health)
I purchased their blood pressure cuff in the past couple weeks, it works pretty well, I did have to read the manual though, as it doesn't automatically push the reading, you have to select a user before it sends. It's easy to do, but not intuitive.
It is a little slow though, readings can take a few hours to show in the health app, I don't know why though as they'll appear in their app fairly quickly. I'll have readings appear in their app, but not show in the health app for a while. I'm still trying to figure out the timing.
The setup was a little kludgy, when signing up it made me enter a weight (which I approximated), then it asked to sync with HealthKit, it pushed that entered weight into health, I had to go into both apps and delete that one entry, and then the witihings app pulled the correct weight from health. If you're going to sync anyway, don't ask for a manual entry until after you've checked.
(my scale is a weightgurus, but it's bluetooth to the app, so you must have their app open to push readings, but they also instantly show up in health)