r/GoogleHealthFitbit

Is there a way to access Google Health on a windows 11 machine using the chrome browser?

I'm playing football later and want to track with my Google Fitbit Air properly. I have been reading that some workout types don't track steps or distance and experienced this first-hand yesterday when I manually started a "workout" in the gym but it didn't track any of my steps the whole time.

I had a quick try of starting "Sports" earlier to test if this would be good for football but the main screen was the same as "workout" showing cardio load, heart rate etc and not steps.

I don't want to lose my step count so when I play football later, shall I just let it auto track or shall I start a "run" manually? I can't seem to find anything on the internet about which workout types in Google Health I should choose so anyone with experience, can they please let me know? Thanks!

So I just found out from my boyfriend that Google bought out Fitbit months ago [Edit: found out the acquisition was years ago, not months]. If they waited this long to launch the new app, why couldn’t they wait until all the bugs were fixed.

Only been using the new version for about a week-definitely not more than two, and it’s pissed me off so bad that I decided it was more worth it to pay a subscription fee to a different app (which has the ability to sync with the Fitbit app) than to keep using this one exclusively.

I can now track everything properly, and I can track custom foods again so that my macros aren’t screwed up because the app doesn’t have a new store-bought food in its list yet or because there’s nothing in the list comparable with a homemade meal 🙄

If anyone is interested, the new app I’m using is MyNetDiary. I’m using the subscription over the free version so that I can sync the apps and use photo logging. There are a couple of other features it adds, but I don’t remember what they are at the moment.

I’ve found ways to avoid every other alarm I use. I can silence my phone in 0.5 seconds sometimes without even waking up! But this… it goes off for what feels like 20 seconds and I have it set to the stronger vibration setting. While it’s going off you can’t silence the damn thing. No amount of pleading with it will make it stop and if I take it off I lose my precious tracking… The worst is if I lay back down it’s like “oh you are still asleep and you are supposed to be up by 7??? Hit him again!!” Like if you don’t get up and start taking steps this thing will just keep blasting you every few minutes until your set time and it’s just wasting my battery!!!

Needed to get up by 7 am this morning and I was up at 6:40 moving around. gg Fitbit air I hate you. 11/10 would recommend. Didn’t even wake my partner up!

Hi,

It would be great if the AI ​​Coach also got a voice output feature like the Gemini app, or even the live conversation feature at some point.

But having voice output for the written text would be great.

Hi all,

Anyone wants to join? It's good to have more people to share steps and cardio load data. It gives me good motivation to do more.

Let me know your thoughts

Hello, i own a pixel watch 3 and i have had a fitbit premium sub from back when the pixel 1 launched. I got an email to cancel my subscription because im no longer eligible. I live in Greece.

W H Y just by adding an AI coach i have to lose my deep sleep stats? Or the other benefits of the subscription....

Or have i missunderstood?

Is the fitbit sub going away and im going to be able to get health premium? Or am i doomed?

Google support isnt helping much with this..

What can i do from here?

It might just be my experience so far and I didn't use the old Fitbit app but I've had minimal friction so far.

The biggest problem I had was I needed to plug the charger into a stronger USB-C port energy wise for it to boot the first time for setup.

Entering calories is painfully easy with the AI but I meal prep and know my measurements.

The coach has some wonkiness but to be honest MOST AI does right now. I'm used to my HW3 Tesla fucking up while driving me and I used to heavily use AI for coding back when it was just ChatGPT so maybe I have more tolerance for it.

The app just works and does everything I want so far. So I find a lot of the complaining very strange. The bugs will get patched and features will get added. I'm sure most of the anger is just from disrupting peoples routine but for me its adding a whole new one I didn't have because all I had was an Apple watch I barely used because its old and dies in 6 hours.

Hi. I noticed that in the trial phase the Google health app reported that I had more sleep than than Fitbit app.

The Fitbit app would pick out frequent periods of being awake, while the new health app ignores these instances (I definitely am awake at times when it's no longer identified)

The new health app is incorrect to about 6% or 25 mins a night. Yet Google has not fixed this inaccuracy before forcing us to use the app.

I also find that it doesn't always log fluid input.

Is anyone else aware of these inaccuracies?

I just got my Air yesterday and went through the setup process. I wore it to sleep for the first time last night and I have some thoughts.

For background, I use Coros for my workouts (Pace Pro and HRM) and have tried Amazfit ecosystem (Balance 2 and Helio). Most recently, I would use Coros for workouts and the Helio for sleep and on days I wanted to wear a normal watch. All of the info fed into an app called Athlytic, which is a fantastic app for aggregating data across devices. I chose to try the Air because I think it's a lot more stylish than the Helio's form factor.

1. GH should allow for custom HR zones.
2. Allow writing to other apps such as Apple Health and Athlytic.
3. Support for bicep or forearm placement.
4. What is the algorithm for RHR measurement? It's measuring considerably higher than both Coros, Amazfit, and Athlytic.
5. Cardio load and all metrics should be affected by workouts from other sources like Coros or Amazfit.

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AI is new and not a lot of people know that you can give it instructions as to how it should respond. For me, this has improved the coach quite a bit.

Google really should allow you to put stuff like this in a System Prompt, like other general purpose AI's do.

I see the promise of using the AI helper. I have never logged calories/supplements before so I was wanting to use this to keep track of what I am eating/what supplements I take (I was hoping it could potentially add up the amounts of each supplement too - x mg of magnesium, y mg of calcium etc - perhaps in a future update).

I was hoping it would allow me to say things like "my breakfast is the same as yesterday or it is the same as yesterday except I didn't have a coffee...or I added an extra Y". I am finding it very unreliable. It will randomly change things, say it posted the breakfast but I will find it didn't post anything at all (it will repeatedly lie to me and say that it did), tell me I didn't have any supplements at lunch yesterday when I clearly did. Is there some trick to this for it to make it actually do what you ask of it accurately? I eventually have resorted to swearing at it, calling it stupid etc. and that seems to make it a little better...but that shouldn't be the way.

It is unfortunate there is no web interface for this. I could much more easily give this information...than trying to type things again and again into the phone. When working with something like claude I can point it to additional files in Obsidian to ensure it always has the right context.

Anyone else had better luck with the assistant?