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How do I see the Instantaneous Heart Rate in Windows (like the Android mobile app)

IanPoole
over 4 years ago

I have a Vivoactive 4. The Android GC app shows my instantaneous heart rate. Is it possible to display the same instantaneous heart rate on a windows 10 PC? USB ANT+ stick? Wi-Fi?

I have a heart condition, and when I do a Zoom workout class, I'd like to have the instantaneous heart rate displayed on my Windows 10 laptop. Obviously I could just look at the watch display, but that's not always convenient half-way through an exercise!

Cheers

Ian

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Any app able to read HR over ANT+ should work. And there seem to be a bunch of them (I did not test any, though):

    [https://www.google.com/search?q=ant+hr+monitor+app+for+windows] 

    You just need to enable the HR braodcasting on your watch:

    [https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/vivoactive4_4S/EN-US/GUID-8EC8B7FE-2AC2-46E9-94FC-06416FF1E2ED.html]

    Though there are also possibilities without the use of the ANT+ stick:

    • You could start a (dummy) activity, and watch your HR with the help of the LiveTrack feature, thought tht would drain the battery probably rather fast (LiveTrack works only with GPS activities).

    • Another possibility is a Connect IQ app that would transfer the HR - the user developped one for Android, and it is an Open Source project that he published at [https://github.com/basva923/GarminLive], so for a skilled programmer it should not be difficult to port it as a windows app

    • And lastly, it may be perhaps also possible to run the Garmin Connect Mobile Andorid app in an Android emulator on the Windows PC.

    And finally, some devices (for example Garmin Instinct) were lately retrofitted with the function of braodcasting the HR over Bluetooth, hence making it possible to read directly with a PC without the use of an ANT+ stick.