How does integration with Google Health work?

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heathjw February 20, 2010

How does integration with Google Health work?

I'm really interested with the idea of this scale and making it easier to log my weight information. Does anyone have experience with the logging software, be it Google Health or the proprietary Withings software? Really want this device, but looking for some testimonials first (since it's such a niche device, they're hard to find).

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asada45 6 months ago

I don't think its designed to sync with other services. It has a beautiful app for PC,mobile and its super easy to use. Google health is abolishing its service so why the need? Get on the scale, measure your weight and eat, exercise healthily.

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adamreeve 2010-02-20 23:12:55

All the data gets sent to Withings first - there's no software running locally. From there you can view it on the Withings web site (which is decent but entirely flash - ugh!), through their iPhone app (very cool, and free), and/or you can set it up to sync to various outside sites like Google Health. I haven't tried that yet personally.

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heathjw 2010-02-20 23:16:25

And the data transmission is 100% reliable and consistent? Any change in reliability when used with multiple users? Thanks for your input.

jairhart 2010-02-20 23:24:40

My wife and I both are using it. If the scale isn't sure who you are, it'll ask you which person you are: one on the left foot and one on the right. You pick up the other foot tell the scale who you are. This could be problematic if there are more than 3 people at about the same weight/fat. After the 3rd weighing it never asked again (about 10-15 pounds difference).

adamreeve 2010-02-21 00:10:10

Transmission seems very reliable, although of course there could be problem as with all things wireless depending on the house/router/environment/phase of the moon :) It does the upload after each weighing, and if there are issues it tries again throughout the day. I believe it flags an error on the screen if it can't make contact after a certain number of tries - I've never seen that.

Me & my wife use it, and as our weights are a fair distance apart it doesn't have any trouble telling us apart.

slinetty 2011-06-23 10:41:22

I tried to sync to google yesterday and did not have any luck. I am going to look into this more and try to figure it out and get back to you. The scale itself is awesome though.

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michaelpaul 2012-01-12 03:51:57

Google Health has been discontinued as of 1/1/2012... data is available for download for the rest of this year.

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