Fitbit by Google (Re: smart plugs???)

On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:53:38 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

I just discovered that in the last two weeks, as I replaced by Fitbit
Charge 5 with a new Charge 6. It somehow would not show me the time when
I had left my phone in the office while going out to get the mail from
the mailbox at the driveway. Recovered once I was in Blluetooth range.
Some datapoints can sync between the watch and the phone over BlueTooth,
but "deeper stuff" like sleep analysis does indeed require connection to
the Google servers.

On 2025-01-17, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

Synching for me often shows a network connection is necessary and may
require multiple restarts of the app. It's not very smooth. The latest
feature, 'cardio load', has many people trying to figure out how it works
and the prompts to get your lazy butt in gear are not appreciated.

Cardio Load seems to be designed to induce people to "upgrade" to a paid
Premium subscription. But like some other features releated to
"exercise", it does not work with the machinery I use at the gym:
Elliptical, Stairmaster and Treadmill. Tracking exercise insists that you
must be moving, as measured by GPS, and the GPS map takes over the
screen and prevents you from seeing heart rate, which is the most useful
measurement in real time for me.