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Workaround for no TrueUp for Body Battery, etc.

Nils_D
over 5 years ago

I have F6 that I wear 99% of the time. Every now and then I want to wear my dress watch to a wedding or formal event, but don't want to lose my steps and other info like body battery. TrueUp with something like the vivosmart 4 looked like a solution, until I learned it doesn't sync body battery. I thought then of removing the straps from my F6 and keeping it in my pocker, and wearing my Polar OH1 HRM, but you can only record on external HRM during an activity. I am thinking of creating an "Other" activity named something like "Dress Watch", putting F6 in my front pocket and OH1 on my arm and just running that activity all day/night to record HR metrics through the OH1 and step metrics through the F6, then putting the F6 back on for sleep. 

My Question: does this seem like a feasible workaround, and anything unexpected you think I might encounter that would undermine the objectives?

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    That would work.  I'm not trying to upset you here, but shouldn't you be asking yourself why is it so important to have steps, HR and body battery metrics outside that 99% time? The numbers are just estimates and missing that 1% isn't going to be a game changer especially since it's not during a recorded activity.  

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to tess

    When you're in a 20+ person weekly step challenge with mostly West Point cadets and Army officers, while simultaneously juggling a newborn, full training schedule, and lack of adequate sleep, every step and body battery measurement counts...

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Nils_D

    Body battery is really just the accumulated data from the stress level, which itself btw. at this point is totally useless, because of some software issues (sometimes it stays between 70-90, sometime 5-20 for day long - only reset helps).

    So yes, this idea is something I was considered before, after that I've just gave up. I'd be happy with one working device, and then I could think about a slimmer/more dress version and then it'd be important to include BB into TrueUp.

    It seems to me that this is a bit of checkbox feature for Garmin, they've just abandoned the stress measurement sadly.