Is it possible to pair a bluetooth hrm belt with the gear s? I would like to use it for running, and i think a chest belt would be more accurate then the build in sensor of the gear.... I have a runtastic combo bluetooth smart belt and considering buying a gear s
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I believe the only way to do this is to pair the HR monitor with your phone, then run a fitness app on your phone that has an accompanying companion app for the Gear S (like Endomondo or MapMyRun). In essence, the Gear S becomes an extension of your phone's screen. These companion fitness apps will not work without an active connection with your phone.
The native Nike+ running app on the Gear S is nice and doesn't require an active connection with your phone, but I don't see any settings that allows me to pair any type of HR monitor (which is a bit odd since the Gear S has a built-in optical HR monitor).
The native S Health app on the Gear S has a running option, but I believe it only uses the built-in optical HR monitor.
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Using the samsung S5 with gear fit and S-Healt, and starting a workout program from the app can not monitor the heart rate. you can have a change that would allow the use of the gear fit to monitor your heart rate by starting the workout from the app and not from the gear fit?
Also, starting a workout program from the gear fit with the vocal coach, gear only shows notifications on the display without speech feedback on the device, you can do some editing to get voice feedback on the device?
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Hey guys.
I wonder if Gear Fit smartwatch works fine with Endomondo app. I know the exercises are completely synchronized with the watch. But here is a question...
What about the pulse during the training? It can measure our pulse when we "press the button". But what about doing it automatically within our training?
Gear Fit in not good device for fitness activities. It's pretty inaccurate.
I use endomondo everyday and you need to have a bluetooth heart rate monitor if you wanted to capture your heart rate as well. then it works really well.
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Endomondo have given the option on the Android Wear and Samsung Gear S to use the built in HRM. It is not an option on the Gear Fit yet. Hopefully the will add it.
Android Wear? How come i don't see heart rate when using Endomondo on Android Wear, while other programs are showing it?
I like to run with the gear s (without my note 4) using the nike app to track my distance. I also like to listen to milk music while jogging using bt head phones. It seems that I can either stream music, or use the Nike app to track distance, but not both at the same time. Is that true, or am I doing something wrong? The Nike app works with music that is loaded on the watch.
I went running this morning, and it was the first time for me to stream Milk music. I used the S Health ap as I like it better than the Nike ap.
Either way, my run was cut short by my Gear S battery dying. The watch was fresh off the charger, and I only got about an hour of streaming Milk, S Health with gps, bluetooth headset for sound, and wifi was on for about half of the run.
I had to turn off wifi because when I ran by the house it would interrupt the streaming music as it connected to my home network.
Either way. Take some serious time to tame your Milk playlist on your phone, or you will be running to a LOT of B side songs.
Ampm325--I thought the S health app only used a pedometer to measure distance, which is why I want to use the Nike running app. I thought the Nike app is the only way you can track distance using gps in the stand alone mode on the Gear S. I agree streaming music and using gps is hard on the battery. Sure would be nice to do both though at the same time--maybe just bring along the charger/battery adapter..
I went running yesterday using the gear s health app for running. I thought it only used a pedometer to measure distance. I was wrong. You can use the gps to track distance, and it also logs your heart rate at the same time and I was able to stream Milk music to my bt head phones while jogging. Pretty cool--a watch that is a smart phone, a gps tracker, a heart rate monitor, and streams music!
Yep! but altitude does not register on gps for S Health. I run hills, and like the gps map on nike better.
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I still wonder if there is a reason the milk music streaming app stops the Nike running app?
I think Milk music is the problem. Besides you can maybe run 5 miles streaming Milk music, it's a battery hog. Samsung needs to perfect the offline music milk to work on gear
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Friends,
I have one question: The Samsung Gear Fit, not works with other third party fitness apps? Only pairing with S Health?
And with Endomondo, Runtastic, Strava...?
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Endomondo works great.
I have noticed that when the Amazfit BIP is connected to Iphone then strava, runtastic etc detect it as a bluetooth HRM and display heart rate for real time monitoring. But when doing the same on Android, none of these apps detect it. Anyone knows the reason
A lesser known app MotiFit connects on Android as HRM but not the better known fitness apps
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sg1978 said:
I have noticed that when the Amazfit BIP is connected to Iphone then strava, runtastic etc detect it as a bluetooth HRM and display heart rate for real time monitoring. But when doing the same on Android, none of these apps detect it. Anyone knows the reason
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I tried this several tmes with Strava, Runkeeper etc. But I can't connect it as a HRM on my Iphone 7+
Can you tell me what you did to make this work?