Enable AppleWatch as an HRM input via companion app

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bram.heyne

• July 31, 2024 07:32
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I would really love if the companion app would be able to grab the current HeartRate from an AppleWatch. Third-party apps could do it in the past, why not the companion app now?

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  Guido Del Giudice

  • July 31, 2024 05:02

  there are no apps currently working to do this with an Apple watch...they all stopped working after a certain firmware update on the Karoo..

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  bram.heyne

  • July 31, 2024 07:31

  Oh... Wait... I'll rephrase.

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  Mike F

  • August 11, 2024 09:32

  Complain to Apple, they have to Broadcast the heart rate. My Garmin Fenix does this and Karoo treats it as just another sensor.
  This is an Apple problem, but the Store does have 3rd party apps for this I think.

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  Guido Del Giudice

  • August 11, 2024 10:04

  the 3rd party apps that broadcast successfully to the Garmin do not work with the Karoo 2… I tried them all

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  robert.haette

  • August 15, 2024 11:42

  @Guido Del Giudice 

  i tryed a few days ago the HeartCast app. And it works with the Karoo3. But the apps must be stay open at the iPhone and the watch.

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  Giovanni Tanzi

  • August 17, 2024 17:45

  ciao io uso hrm monitor e funziona bene anche con gli ultimi aggiornamenti. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hrm-heart-rate-monitor/id1671488058

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  Guido Del Giudice

  • August 17, 2024 18:04

  thank you, HRM monitor app now seems to work 👍

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  Guido Del Giudice

  • August 19, 2024 20:14

  the problem though is that the workout app stops working when I start the HRM monitor app… they cannot run simultaneously ☹️

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  bram.heyne

  • August 19, 2024 21:16

  HRM does not work properly on Karoo 3. I got it working once, but you have to remove the sensor and re-add it every time. 

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  Adam Glick

  • August 23, 2024 16:30
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  I spent some time over the past couple of years trying the various HR apps for Apple Watch with my Karoo. Things worked for a while until the Karoo issued an update that broke something fundamental with how they work together and as long as you were ok with your HR always being 80, it worked. :/
  
  So, after some digging in to this a bit (by day I run a tech consulting firm) I found this: https://www.watchlink.app/
  
  Essentially it's an ANT <> BT bridge pod. Set up on phone. Pair to Karoo via ANT. Once it's set up you don't need your phone, you just use the Watchlink Apple Watch app to start it and your HR appears on your Karoo. Perfectly. Every time.
  
  You want the The Watch Link POD. On rides I put the pod in a pocket on the left leg of my shorts (same side as Apple Watch).

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  Guido Del Giudice

  • August 27, 2024 09:07

  what is the point though of buying another device in order to get HR on the Karoo? Might as well use a heart rate strap then

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  Adam Glick

  • August 27, 2024 10:04

  well I always have my apple watch on and a heart rate strap is inconvenient *and is another device*

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  bram.heyne

  • August 27, 2024 10:55
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  So, you actively use the watchlink pod and it works on Karoo 3?

   

  Edit: arrgh! They do not ship to the Netherlands. 😞

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  Adam Glick

  • August 27, 2024 19:15

  yup. every ride. it works really well. it. just. works.

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  Adam Glick

  • August 27, 2024 19:17

  you must have at least 1 friend someplace they do ship to :)

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