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Is there any band that doesn't upload everything to some cloud? It's super crappy that everything I looked at had some stupid cloud feature.

by blub 12y ago

at-fates-hands 12y ago
I've always used a polar heart rate monitor when I play hockey to help me find my VO2 max and my target heart rate range. They're one of the few really accurate heart rate monitors out there. These also have a myriad of other functions. http://www.polar.com/us-en/products/get_active/fitness_crosstraining/loop http://www.polar.com/us-en/products/get_active/fitness_cross... You can find a Polar Loop bracelet with the H7 heart rate monitor strap for around $150.00, which is a lot less than the Microsoft Band: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=polar+h7&_from=R40&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XPolar+Loop+%2B+Polar+H7+heart+rate+monitor&_nkw=Polar+Loop+%2B+Polar+H7+heart+rate+monitor&_sacat=0 http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=polar+h7&_from=R40&_osa... I apologize in advance for the janky links.
- e12e 12y ago
  I don't have experience with any, but after some searching, it appears the various Mio[1] bands might be a good bet? Appears to be more open that the polar products, unless I'm missing something. I also found: https://github.com/mlt/schwinn810 https://github.com/mlt/schwinn810 Does anyone have any experience with either? [1] http://www.mioglobal.com/en-uk/compare-mio-heart-rate-monitors.htm http://www.mioglobal.com/en-uk/compare-mio-heart-rate-monito...
- scblock 12y ago
  And by "one of the few" you mean "one of the many". Heart rate monitoring is not terribly difficult or magical.
ISL 12y ago
The Garmin Fenix can be mounted as a mass-storage device. It outputs in both "FIT" and GPX formats. If the proprietary Garmin software isn't used, it just appears like a USB key. I just mount it with a Linux box and copy it whereever I want (including uploading to Garmin's cloud service).

Is there any band that doesn't upload everything to some cloud? It's super crappy that everything I looked at had some stupid cloud feature.

by blub 12y ago

Is there any band that doesn't upload everything to some cloud? It's super crappy that everything I looked at had some stupid cloud feature.

at-fates-hands 12y ago

I've always used a polar heart rate monitor when I play hockey to help me find my VO2 max and my target heart rate range. They're one of the few really accurate heart rate monitors out there. These also have a myriad of other functions. http://www.polar.com/us-en/products/get_active/fitness_crosstraining/loop http://www.polar.com/us-en/products/get_active/fitness_cross... You can find a Polar Loop bracelet with the H7 heart rate monitor strap for around $150.00, which is a lot less than the Microsoft Band: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=polar+h7&_from=R40&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XPolar+Loop+%2B+Polar+H7+heart+rate+monitor&_nkw=Polar+Loop+%2B+Polar+H7+heart+rate+monitor&_sacat=0 http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=polar+h7&_from=R40&_osa... I apologize in advance for the janky links.

e12e 12y ago
I don't have experience with any, but after some searching, it appears the various Mio[1] bands might be a good bet? Appears to be more open that the polar products, unless I'm missing something. I also found: https://github.com/mlt/schwinn810 https://github.com/mlt/schwinn810 Does anyone have any experience with either? [1] http://www.mioglobal.com/en-uk/compare-mio-heart-rate-monitors.htm http://www.mioglobal.com/en-uk/compare-mio-heart-rate-monito...
scblock 12y ago
And by "one of the few" you mean "one of the many". Heart rate monitoring is not terribly difficult or magical.

ISL 12y ago

The Garmin Fenix can be mounted as a mass-storage device. It outputs in both "FIT" and GPX formats. If the proprietary Garmin software isn't used, it just appears like a USB key. I just mount it with a Linux box and copy it whereever I want (including uploading to Garmin's cloud service).