The closest I've found so far seems to be something like this random brand:
Charge 5 as of this afternoon. Nice and easy to turn off all the text/email notifications so it can just sit there monitoring for me being dead.
hope it works out! I've been a fan of my fitbit despite how not "techbro" they are.
I thought briefly about jumping from my Apple Watch (series 5!) to a Fenix, but their interface seemed just like my old Vivoactive HR, still amazingly clunky and featureless outside the sports logging metrics…
For my use the Garmin app was pretty good.
Luckily for your wrist you can make your bike look like a dork with this trendy watch mount-
Big fan of a real bike GPS if you are interested in tracking your rides. This is about smart watches and fitness trackers though. I am a data nerd so I have both.
love my 830. I had to buy a bunch of mounts for it tho. it even works with my kinetic trainer.
daily charging vs monthly charging. also, Garmin watches are first and foremost sports watches. not smart watches.
I've started gobbling up cool mounts for my various bikes. Have a stem mount for the roadie, an aero mount for the TT, a HB mount for the MTB, and a clamp on for the spooky.
Garmins are seriously clunky compared to the smart watches...but they also work correctly every time. My fitbit is a touch screen and it's annoying to use unless condiitons are perfect (no gloves, no water on screen, clean fingers), whereas my garmin watch experience has been button focused, minimalist, and purely functional. The smart watches do way more, but it's nice to have simplicity if you are active or conditions aren't perfect.
the Garmin connect web portal is very nice too.
Is it continuous monitoring, or just a one off reading from during the night?This thing looks handy for me for night time Oxygen monitoring, but it does no normal smart watch stuff.
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Masimo - Masimo W1™ Medical Watch Continuous Health Tracking Watch
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Continuous, so much so that I don't think you get 24hrs out of a charge.
Seems it's done 14 months at work now, still not an issue, I've sprayed brake clean in to the buttons because there was so much dirt/whatever in there that the buttons wouldn't move, it's been in a glass with denture cleaner a few times too.
I wonder if rechargeables would go bad too quickly or suffer corrosion too fast. Nothing beats a regular battery for knowing you’ve got full charge from the start.
Do they not all basically have a walled garden of data? I thought Apple treated their health data pretty much the same way.
They're well sealed, but you have to travel with extra batteries because of how much energy they use, especially when using air integration. A lot of times the batteries need replaced before they're fully spent, especially if you are going out for a day of boat diving.
Kind of, Fitbit is just especially shitty. Fitbit doesn’t allow import nor export of data, in other words I can’t see activities from Strava in Fitbit, and I can’t easily see steps nor sleep in apple health. Garmin, for example, will share sleep, steps, and activities with Apple health and Strava. I actually really like the integration between apple health and Garmin and if Garmin offered the right device or combination of features, I’d be all over it. Another example, Garmin will share daily heart rate tracking with apple health, but Fitbit only allows a single data point of HR out.
The point of these types of watches is sorta to wear them all the time.
well yes but actually no. Garmin should be able to take data from my 530, or my 735, or my vivosmart band and combine it to figure out energy in or energy out. They won’t/don’t, so I have to wear my Garmin watch while I ride with my garmin Computer if I want a measure of energy expenditure or whatever. I don’t like to wear my watch on The bike if I don’t have to, so that kind of sucks And forces me into thinking about a third party system, like apple health or whatever.
Garmin’s ecosystem is one of the best, but if I have to wear something 24/7 then I want it to be small and sleek/unobtrusive. Most of Garmin’s watches are pretty big aside from the 165/vivoactive5, which lose some of the features I want, and since I can’t accumulate my data under the same umbrella without multiple apps anyways, I may as well get the best which sounds like the apple product for now.
fitbit<>Strava https://strava.fitbit.com/
So you absolutely can pair with strava, but you can't get your data out and into apple health (or Garmin connect). I have an app for sharing it which works OK, but it won't send HR data more than once per day, so it's an average of all HR measurements over the course of 24hr and not terribly useful. I could just keep it in fitbit, but I find apple health/fitness to be a strong motivator and fitbit still hides some metrics behind a paywall in the premium app. Also, my phone GPS apparently blows goats, so when I ran with my fitbit or vivosmart, I'd get more mileage than my 735XT, and that watch agrees with an actual GPS map meaning the tethered GPS/phone GPS is wrong.
