[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Good Fitness Band?
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       Ask HN: Good Fitness Band?
        
       I recently got the flu and was thinking it would be interesting to
       have a graph of my body temperature, which made me consider buying
       a fitness band. Are there any that HN likes?
       Factors I care about:       - Slim design and good battery life
       - No subscription required to unlock any features       - Lots of
       interesting sensors (heart rate, SpO2, skin temp, pedometer,
       others?)       - Open data access, reverse engineered APIs, 3rd
       party data analysis apps       Happy holidays!
        
       Author : mustachionut
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-12-24 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | navanchauhan wrote:
       | Before I was gifted a Apple Watch, I bought a cheap Amazfit band
       | (= Xiaomi's band, you can never tell which one is the rebranded
       | one), as they have an API you can get access to, but it doesn't
       | really work that well in practice. I never got approved for the
       | dev API and the reverse engineered API[0] doesn't return all the
       | data either.
       | 
       | In the end I resorted to storing all the data in the Health App
       | and using an app[1] to export the data as a CSV file and push it
       | to my server. The benefit of using this approach is that then the
       | actual device does not matter and you can use whatever fitness
       | tracker you want.
       | 
       | If you are on android, you can use apps like Gadgetbridge[2] and
       | FitoTrack[3] to achieve something similar with some of the
       | Chinese bands. But, I am not sure about how to auto export
       | 
       | [0] https://korniichuk.medium.com/export-xiaomi-
       | data-87f7e284b37... [1] https://www.healthexportapp.com [2]
       | https://gadgetbridge.org [3]
       | https://codeberg.org/jannis/FitoTrack
        
       | codevark wrote:
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       | briga wrote:
       | I've been generally disappointed with my Apple Watch, though it
       | looks good and the fitness tracking app mostly works as intended.
       | I find the interface buggy and slow and you can never use it more
       | than a day in a row without charging.
        
       | flarg wrote:
       | Prob not fitting your criteria but the Withings band does
       | interesting things like detect when my night time heart beat is
       | high and reasonably guesses that I have a fever. Which I do. I
       | have the BP monitor and scales as well and they work well
       | together but it's the band that as seems to reveal the most
       | insights.
        
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