Body Weight Logging App

Hi,

Not sure if the Connect IQ API would actually permits to do this, but it would be great to have an app to log your daily body weight and synch it with GC.

Thanks for your consideration,
Cheers,

Ben
  • Unfortunately, there is a $2000 license fee that a developer must pay to get access to the Garmin Connect web service. Without access to the service a developer cannot legally do what you are asking for. It might be free to do through other services though.

    Travis
  • Unfortunately, there is a $2000 license fee that a developer must pay to get access to the Garmin Connect web service. Without access to the service a developer cannot legally do what you are asking for. It might be free to do through other services though.

    Travis


    I thought it was $5k? http://developer.garmin.com/garmin-connect-api/overview/


    Is it just Garmin who charge or do fitbit,polar, suunto,tomtom and co all do the same thing?
  • DONAHOO La Glycine

    Ugh, yes. I'm wrong again... Either way it is too much. For a little app like this it would be difficult to recoup even a tiny bit of the cost. If a bigger project could be developed, I'd bet people would pay. If you could get enough buyers...

    Travis
  • Thanks for your feedback.

    Well I guess this is quite dissuasive for the developer and I can understand...

    Perhaps Garmin could consider developing and adding such app? Lets hope so...
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 8 years ago
    Have you tried sending your idea to garmin?
    http://www8.garmin.com/contactUs/ideas/

    PS: i track my weight on myfitnesspal every morning with my iPad, syncing with garmin works great.
    But I do not use mfp for calorie counting
  • Have you tried sending your idea to garmin?
    http://www8.garmin.com/contactUs/ideas/

    PS: i track my weight on myfitnesspal every morning with my iPad, syncing with garmin works great.
    But I do not use mfp for calorie counting


    Thanks a lot BlackcatSandy, I've submitted the app idea.

    For me, I use a Xiaomi Mi Scale for my body weight which automatically send my weight via BT to my Samsung S7 Edge and logs it in the Samsung 'S Health' app. Its nice, but I i'd like to maintain my health data in one single location without having to do double entries (which I'm currently doing) and my preference would be GC. I'll have to check if I can synch S Health with a third partyapp such as mfp which can itself sync with GC.

    Thanks for you advice an input.