Entering weight on the watch

Former Member over 7 years ago

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to weigh yourself in the morning and enter your weight on your Fenix and then have it sync your weight during the next time sync happens?

I was looking for an app to do that but I was not able to find it. So I'm looking into developing it myself. But searching thought the APIs I do not see anything weight related. Does anyone know if it's even remotely possible? If so what would the approach be?

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fhainz over 6 years ago +3

It would be very nice if that works someday. I hate to open the app every morning even though I'm wearing my watch ..
Former Member over 6 years ago +2

You already have the ability to edit weight on your device which will be uploaded to GC.

Yeah whatever I hate when people pretend they know something. No there is no way to update your weight from the watch…
6942738 over 1 year ago +2

And 5 years later this is still not possible.

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TrippyZ over 7 years ago

You already have the ability to edit weight on your device which will be uploaded to GC.

Former Member over 7 years ago

How do you do that? Do you mean through a User Profile setting? There are a couple of issues with that:

1. I tested it and it didn't update my weight on Garmin Connect
2. It's berried behind a long press click and 10 other clicks just to get to that setting.

Is there another way? Am I missing something here?

Former Member over 6 years ago

You already have the ability to edit weight on your device which will be uploaded to GC.

Yeah whatever I hate when people pretend they know something. No there is no way to update your weight from the watch. It just simply doesn't work.

TrippyZ over 6 years ago

I directed you to an existing facility that works on my device. You asked 'I that even remotely possible' and I answered 'yes'.

fhainz over 6 years ago

It would be very nice if that works someday. I hate to open the app every morning even though I'm wearing my watch ..

6942738 over 1 year ago

And 5 years later this is still not possible.

sscale20 over 1 year ago in reply to 6942738

It is, see

Record Weight & Blood to Garmin Health

6942738 over 1 year ago in reply to sscale20

Nope. That is a third party app. This should be a built in glance or control.

EDIT: also I just tried that app. To enter your weight you have to drill down 3 or 4 menus. It is not quick or easy.

I've tried other third party apps too. All have issues. The best of a bad bunch still has the same issue as all ConnectIQ apps, if the app is updated you lose all your data. Plus it only stores 60 readings.

This is a basic fitness metric and needs a simple control or glance built in by Garmin so users can enter and track it from the watch.

sscale20 over 1 year ago in reply to 6942738

Yes, the app provides much more metrics than weight, and starting it from the widget there is one menue to input data.

And it's the only CIQ app i know which provides upload of health data to garmin connect, and therefore you do not loose data.

Or do you want to keep all the history on the watch?

Maybe the App could be drilled down only for weight.

6942738 over 1 year ago in reply to sscale20

It's easier to use my phone.