simple current heart rate for vivoactive hr

You can't get the real-time HR, but what you can do is get the newest reading on devices with a oHRM.

here's a cut+paste of code that does it by getting the HR History from the ActivityMonitor

var hrh=ActMon.getHeartRateHistory(1,true);
var hrs=hrh.next();
if(hrs!=null && hrs.heartRate!=ActMon.INVALID_HR_SAMPLE) {
hr=hrs.heartRate.toString();
}
else {hr="--";}
dc.drawText(centerW,85,Gfx.FONT_NUMBER_HOT,hr,Gfx.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER);


oh, you should be able to check if the watch has what's needed with:

if(ActivityMonitor has :HeartRateIterator) {

then what does this refer to....

/code
info.currentHeartRate != null ? info.currentHeartRate : 0;
/code

Sorry, I thought you were talking about a watchface, but it looks like you're talking a data field...

"info" is passed to compute() in a DF, and it's actually Activity.Info. Yes, that will give you the HR in a DF when recording has started...

What are you writing where you want to see the HR? Watchface, widget, watch-app or datafield?

oh, you should be able to check if the watch has what's needed with:

if(ActivityMonitor has :HeartRateIterator) {

Does this work in the simulator?
Seems that the simulator uses a VM that represent the full spectrum of features across all devices, not the one being simulated.
I was simulating a non-whr device and it returns true.

In the sim, it's always true, regardless of the device simulated, so to test it, you have to test on a real device that doesn't have it.

In the sim, it's always true, regardless of the device simulated, so to test it, you have to test on a real device that doesn't have it.

Thanks for the confirmation.

Hermo, just to reconfirm this, I took my Simple Heart watchface and added the va as a target, and re-checked the code on a va and va-hr... It detects the oHRM correctly. (on 1.2.x VMs), and in the sim, it thinks there's a oHRM on the va in the sim...