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2 months ago
CIQQA-3169

Feature Request: Body composition measurement

Dear Garmin-Developers

Certain things are just made for wrist watches! E.g. showing time ;) ... measuring pulse... tracking movement...

But one such thing is missing! (and the Samsung galaxy watches have it). Samsung those many things purely but this one is very logical!

They measure the body composition of its wearer. And in a very clever way:

  • Enter your body weight and tallness in the app
  • They have 4 electroconductive (isolated from each other) surfaces: 2 on the backside of the watch (touching the wrist skin) and one in each two buttons.
  • for the messurement: You have to put the middle and ring-finger from the opposite arm on those two buttons (Start/Stop & Back/Lap) and wait 30 seconds
  • the watch is measuring:
    • wirst skin to wrist skin electrical resistance (the two on the backside) for determining the skin condition
    • the electrical resistance from middle finger to ring-finger (the two buttons) for determining the resistance between small and short (low-fat) body parts
    • the electrical resistance from right arm middle finger to left arm wrist for determining final body composition

-> The Result is how much percentage (and kg) is skeletonmuscle, bodyfat, bodywater

I assume every brand (Samsung, Garmin, Apple, Huawai) watch has bloodoxy and pulse and nfc-payment, sports-activity and so on... I assume no issues with patent?

This function would be great for garmin watches!

Justice
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  • 2 months ago

    1. it's already there, but it's not under it's own section. In Garmin Connect look under Health Stats > Fitness Age

    Body fat percentage is only available in the Fitness Age section if you were able to get it into Connect in the first place, which is what this feature request is all about (it's a request to measure body composition -- including body percentage -- via the watch itself).

    The main Garmin-supported way of getting body composition metrics into Connect is to use the Garmin Index scale. Btw, all of these body composition metrics would also be available under the Health Stats > Weight section in Connect anyway. Btw, for people who don't have body fat information in Connect, fitness age is based on BMI.

    Afaik, the only ways to get body composition data into Connect are:

    - use the Garmin Index / Index S2 scale

    or

    - import weight and body fat manually via csv (I've only ever seen examples of importing body fat via csv, not any of the other body composition metrics)

    or

    - use a 3rd party script to import body composition metrics from a scale that isn't supported by Garmin

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  • 2 months ago

    1. it's already there, but it's not under it's own section. In Garmin Connect look under Health Stats > Fitness Age

    Body fat percentage is only available in the Fitness Age section if you were able to get it into Connect in the first place, which is what this feature request is all about (it's a request to measure body composition -- including body percentage -- via the watch itself).

    The main Garmin-supported way of getting body composition metrics into Connect is to use the Garmin Index scale. Btw, all of these body composition metrics would also be available under the Health Stats > Weight section in Connect anyway. Btw, for people who don't have body fat information in Connect, fitness age is based on BMI.

    Afaik, the only ways to get body composition data into Connect are:

    - use the Garmin Index / Index S2 scale

    or

    - import weight and body fat manually via csv (I've only ever seen examples of importing body fat via csv, not any of the other body composition metrics)

    or

    - use a 3rd party script to import body composition metrics from a scale that isn't supported by Garmin

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