Any information on how comfortable the strap is? I am wearing a Garmin HRM Pro for one hour a day during workouts and it is not very comfy. I know a lot of athletes are moving to way less precise optical hand straps just because of the comfort issues with chest straps. I would not wear a chest strap for longer periods of time, unless I absolutely had to.
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#12Any information on how comfortable the strap is? I am wearing a Garmin HRM Pro for one hour a day during workouts and it is not very comfy. I know a lot of athletes are moving to way less precise optical hand straps just because of the comfort issues with chest straps. I would not wear a chest strap for longer periods of time, unless I absolutely had to.
sadly, comfort for chest straps compared to hand straps is a known issue and ours is definitely no different. Wve done a bunch of tests, tried different materials/custom solutions, and honestly we're still clueless how to make it significantly better (if anyone here works in textiles or wearable fabrics, I'd love to connect). So yeah, if wearing your Garmin for more than an hour already feels uncomfortable, ours probably won't be much better in that regard
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#13I thoroughly applaud your approach.
I've been dealing with some cardiac issues that were brought on / exasperated by a covid infection, and it's been challenging finding solutions that let me monitor my own biometrics while hiking without sending anything to the cloud. It's shocking that it's a non-trivial endeavor to pair a medical grade wearable with a smartphone and get differentiated granular alarms / alerts for user defined events (BPM within user defined bands, blood oxygen levels below a certain threshhold, etc..)
If your python SDKs work wirelessly, I'd seriously consider creating a RPI based system to do those things and be able to leave the smartphone at home while I hike.
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#14Very commendable approach!
Are you using Movesense as the chest movement sensor per chance? I've been looking into breathing rate lately, but haven't made the jump just yet.
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#15I watch "Quantified Scientist" (https://www.robterhorst.com/), in which Rob compares various watches and smartbands on how they measure sleep and heart rate - against golden standards.
By any chance, were you able to talk with him so he can measure it?
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#16I watch "Quantified Scientist" ( https://www.robterhorst.com/ ), in which Rob compares various watches and smartbands on how they measure sleep and heart rate - against golden standards. By any chance, were you able to talk with him so he can measure it?
Hey there,
We haven’t spoken with Rob yet but that is a great suggestion. Thanks for the tip!
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#17Very commendable approach! Are you using Movesense as the chest movement sensor per chance? I've been looking into breathing rate lately, but haven't made the jump just yet.
Thank you! We've integrated a different chip for measuring chest movements
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#18> Now we're doing everything we can to move computation to the edge. In an ideal world, the cloud wouldn't store or process anything - just receive already-analyzed, privacy-preserving results straight from the device. I appreciate moving away from cloud for personal health data like this. Can you clarify why the ideal world you hint at would have the device sending any data to you?
Devices sending data that is anonymized, encrypted, and signed by the device is a must-have for some medical studies. For example, imagine a medical study that looks at heart rate variability versus an intervention. The data analysts won't need to know each patient's name or email address, but will need to know each patient's heart rate variability when you're having the intervention. The study may span many physical…
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#19I thoroughly applaud your approach. I've been dealing with some cardiac issues that were brought on / exasperated by a covid infection, and it's been challenging finding solutions that let me monitor my own biometrics while hiking without sending anything to the cloud. It's shocking that it's a non-trivial endeavor to pair a medical grade wearable with a smartphone and get differentiated granular alarms / alerts for…
Hey, can you join our Discord: https://discord.gg/sPay3Xm? Reach out to me personally (@guzik1) - happy to help you with that as we've already had a few people who integrated with rpi, so I can share some tips and examples.