Fitbits and related devices

[Jesse Nicholas Radin]

Anyone else have them? I have a Charge 6 and it's cool. I like the sleep tracking quite a bit.

But if you don't want Google around it's not worth it. They are making everyone use their Google accounts soon.

I used to have the Versa 2 but it was not as good.

Not into Apple products so it's frustrating when people assume any tracker is an Apple watch.

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

While they have their uses, 99% of them are spyware that upload all of your data to the cloud.
Goyim are truely less than human.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

They don't seem necessary unless you have serious health issues that need detailed tracking to mitigate, or if the sensors get much better, like it's a wireless tricorder Theranos miracle blood scanner. Maybe they need to wait decades for patents to expire to add certain features.

 

[PetiteFeet]

I like my garmin venu but that's the most I'll willingly, knowingly let spyware into my life. It's fun to challenge myself to keep building on my own personal best, I've disconnected it as much as possible from sharing info with the public.

 

[Harvey Danger]

No spyware for me, thanks.

If there was a completely offline sensor that just did heart rate tracking, I might do that. But you give that request to any corporate designer today, and they will insist it's impossible without a fucking smartphone app. Just give me excellent sensors, a basic LED screen, and internal memory. It's fucking NUMBERS, you only need a few megabytes of storage and two buttons!

 

[Leylon Sneed]

I just set up a Charge 6 for a boomer I know. He's got heart issues and wants tracking data to show his doctor to see if there's anything else he should be doing. He doesn't know how to use it, forgets to charge it, but I've got it mostly set up, I just have to remind him to open the app every now and again to sync the data. Wish I could turn off some of the features, I have to go thru some more of the menus between the watch and the app to see what can be done. Cool tho for what it does.. and only like $120.

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

completely offline sensor that just did heart rate tracking

There's the Pinetime watch, which is pretty cheap and innacurate, but it is offline. It (and RTOS smart watches in general) are limited and scope but can serve your usecase.
There is also Asteroid OS, which is kinda dead but can I think track your heart rate without connecting to the internet or a phone.
The Pebble e-ink watches are now open source, and can function without a phone. I'm not sure if they have a heart rate monitor.
You can also strap a Samsung Galaxy S5 mini to your wrist and jailbreak it.
There are also full android smartwatches that can probably be customized to not connect to anything, but those are all bulky chinkslop. I stopped researching these after I learned that they are all bulky chinkslop so I don't know much about them.

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Wear OS is the worst thing to happen to smartwatches. Unlike Android, it is closed source, which makes it way less flexible, limits what can be done with it, and makes something like Lineage OS impossible for smartwatches. Its been out for more than a decade, and yet the software available for it is extremely limited. Wear OS developers are so few and far between that even Apple's Watch OS has more (and better) apps on it. Wear OS watches lack customization, you are stuck with whatever launcher/UI Google/OEM gave to your watch. In addition, most of the functionality of the watch is locked behind Google/OEM apps, with no good alternatives.

Normally I wouldn't care about any of this, but I really want a smartwatch that can work like XMPlay but on my wrist (with a headphone jack). The closest thing that is being made to what I want is overpriced chink garbage with no support for a lot of the formats that I want to listen to.

 

[BiggestKai]

I got one of those smart watches that came with a bunch of that stuff as a birthday gift and like 80% of the "data" it gives me I'm convinced is horseshit it pulls out of the ether. Stuff like sleep quality tracking or mood analysis or whatever.

 

[The_Red_Man]

Had a Versa 2 and it died like right after its year warranty expired. Piece of crap.

Last year I sprung for a Galaxy Watch 7 and I actually like it. Got a watch face that has all the weather conditions I need to know about for fishing, and the workout tracker is really convenient because I like to track my rests in between sets. Yeah it's spyware but... Let's be real you carry your phone with you for the same effect except more than what the watch can track. If you don't want shit tattlin on you, leave it at home.

 

[Battery Low]

I know it's spy-shit but I have a versa (I just get the cheapest 2nd hand pebble that looks like it will work off Ebay whenever mine dies). As others have said, I own a phone and there's probably plenty data on me out there already. I don't like it, but in this example I'll accept the trade off.

Weirdly, some of the tracking seems more accurate for me than my husband.

However the sleep tracker always seems to line up fairly accurately, apart from deciding I'm awake from when I get up rather than truly awake. Weird because the "awake" portions of my night line up fine 99% of the time from what I can tell.

I love that "smart wake" alarm. I'll happily wake up half an hour earlier if it means that the alarm doesn't rip me screaming from deep sleep/rem.

Heart rate is one of those things that I use as a "compare over time" feature as opposed to trusting the number in isolation. It seems to go down when I was in a deficit the previous day so I figure that it's fairly accurate.

I don't think the "heart rate zones" are super accurate, nor the "cardio fitness score" I think other options would be more useful if that's something you want to know more about.

I used the calorie tracker to lose weight by going ~500 cal below the previous day's alleged burn and lost significant weight that way so it's clearly accurate enough for that usage.

Step tracker is more of a nice novelty in some ways imho. Not brilliantly accurate but so long as miles and cals are roughly right then I'm happy enough.