Sync Ride Data Directly to Apple Health
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Currently to sync workouts with Apple Health I sync my rides to Strava and then the Strava App app on my iPhone syncs to Apple Heath. This works except Strava does not sync heart rate data unless the workout was recorded with Strava app.
I do wear a HR strap to record heart rate with the K2 and confirmed when viewing the ride in Training Peaks.
Are there plans to allow syncing rides directly to Apple Health through the HealthKit?
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Hi Jeff, There are no plans on it yet, and I would be interested to know how many users would want it. We are able to prioritise any request based on the number of respondents. However, this may not be an easy lift from an Android to Apple.
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The magic sequence that works reliably for me:
Turn off the Karoo 2 (or don’t turn it on in the first place).
I stop and swipe off (kill) both watch and phone HeartCast apps.
Then I start the phone HeartCast app first.
Then I start the watch HeartCast app.
I hit start on the watch app.
Wait until the watch and phone both show a heart rate number that makes sense (usually doesn’t take long, a few seconds).
Then turn on your Karoo 2.
Wait for it to connect to sensors.
You should be able to see your heart rate on the loading screen for your ride (the one where it shows your layout before you hit the triangle start button). -
Michael, a little more info. would help debug.
Is your HeartCast app on both the watch and phone showing the right heart rate? (They show the same rate, and it is in a reasonable range?)
Do you wait to turn on your Karoo 2 until after this?
if yes, then I suggest in-pairing, "forgetting" the device, and starting the pairing process again. Something is messed up.
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Yes to both questions - the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results, right? I get the watch and phone all synced up and then find it and connect the to the BT sensor on Karoo 2, it says connected, and then simply shows 00 on the heart rate when you try to start a ride and also will say "searching" intermittently.
I keep following the same steps - have also tried the "Echo" app with the same result. I do have the Apple Watch 6 (new this year), not sure if that has anything to do with it, or if it's the new IOS updates making it harder.
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FWIW, I have a feeling there continues to be issues with either HealthKit or minimally the Apple Health app itself. I too would like to see GPS and heart rate show up in the Health app from my Karoo tracked efforts.
However, it’s my observation that gps or heart rate data that didn’t originate in a watch app or iOS app doesn’t show up in the Health app. One can open the .fit or .gpx files and see all the gps or heart rate data is in there, but not being rendered by the Health app. A year ago, Apple had a significant bug related to this when the current versions of iOS and watchOS came out. I think there’s still some “goo” there.
As such, I can appreciate as developers, Hammerhead would be wasting a lot of time troubleshooting this. Personally, I’d rather see them focus on continuing to add new Karoo capabilities, improve existing functionality. Particularly in this case, as there is a workaround that has no cost to it (sync into Strava, let Strava write the data into Health app). -
I don’t this is it. We are forced to reply on either Kamoot or Strava to move Karoo data to iOS HealthKit. Why would those app developers focus on passimg through Karoo data correctly. They have no incentive to do this. Why this is acceptable is for such an expensive device? I have had Wahoo bike computers and with it having a native iOS app, all that syncs in without relying on Strava to do it for it.
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