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Does anyone know how good and accurate this heart rate monitor? OR know of a good one-time-cost ideally open sport fitness focused watch? I would LOVE for some

Does anyone know how good and accurate this heart rate monitor? OR know of a good one-time-cost ideally open sport fitness focused watch? I would LOVE for someone to hack the Whoop. It's not accurate/good enough, nor insightful enough, for me to want to keep paying $30 a month. but a one time cost and an open community to patch it to match individual use cases would be completely worth even a couple hundred upfront.

Jarwain 6y ago
I've been pretty happy with my vivosmart, and there are libraries for pulling data off of it. It's not open in the same way this project is, though
- dillondoyle 6y ago
  nice thanks. does the more rigid larger structure get in the way for you? I rock climb so flexibility is key. Yeah I totally would have bought one of these just to try it out if it was still available!
  - Jarwain 6y ago
    It's not Too big, so it doesn't really impede my wrist's range of motion. It sits just before the bump where my ulna reaches the rest of my wrist.
bArray 6y ago
The heart rate monitor is pretty decent, I've been daily driving mine for quite a while now and am more than happy with it.
- dillondoyle 6y ago
  on the whoop? my experience is it's slow to pickup changes & consistently 5-10 bps lower than other bands / pulse ox. But my biggest gripes are the auto-sleep detection is horrible for me, and my sport isn't really conducive to the whole value add of measuring 'strain' in the way they do. Doesn't really catch short but very high intensity bouts of work. So like if I can't get good sleep recommendations or measure my strain/recovery I don't want to pay $30 a month just to see a heart rate pulse on my phone when working out. It hasn't improved my training in a meaningful way.
barrenko 6y ago
My impression is that the only watch that really works for health stuff is the Apple one (at a similarly healthy margin). Am I wrong?

Jarwain 6y ago

I've been pretty happy with my vivosmart, and there are libraries for pulling data off of it. It's not open in the same way this project is, though

dillondoyle 6y ago
nice thanks. does the more rigid larger structure get in the way for you? I rock climb so flexibility is key. Yeah I totally would have bought one of these just to try it out if it was still available!
- Jarwain 6y ago
  It's not Too big, so it doesn't really impede my wrist's range of motion. It sits just before the bump where my ulna reaches the rest of my wrist.

bArray 6y ago

The heart rate monitor is pretty decent, I've been daily driving mine for quite a while now and am more than happy with it.

dillondoyle 6y ago
on the whoop? my experience is it's slow to pickup changes & consistently 5-10 bps lower than other bands / pulse ox. But my biggest gripes are the auto-sleep detection is horrible for me, and my sport isn't really conducive to the whole value add of measuring 'strain' in the way they do. Doesn't really catch short but very high intensity bouts of work. So like if I can't get good sleep recommendations or measure my strain/recovery I don't want to pay $30 a month just to see a heart rate pulse on my phone when working out. It hasn't improved my training in a meaningful way.

barrenko 6y ago

My impression is that the only watch that really works for health stuff is the Apple one (at a similarly healthy margin). Am I wrong?