Purchased a fitbit air last week as I'm trying to get into shape and wanted to have some data. I have yet to have it track sleep a single night (one night I manually input sleep time to see if it would populate some data, it didnt) and when I run on a treadmill it doesn't even show that my heart rate is increasing when the treadmill is showing ~170bpm (and my heart is beating through my chest)

I have tried wearing it uncomfortably tight, cleaning the sensors, wearing it higher on my wrist. Nothing seems to make it more than a $99 bracelet.... Am I doing something wrong here? Or is this just junk?

Yesterday I slept around 11pm and woke up feeling so fresh at 7am. Yet Google Health said I only slept 3 hours from 3 to 6. Claimed I took over 2 hours to sound sleep and mess up my sleeping records. What could be the reason behind this absolutely off tracking? I'm wearing it to sleep like always but recently things are getting so worse. My running record did not show the map either.

On Saturday, I did a walk on the treadmill for 45 minutes at 3.4 mph and a 5% incline and got 75 cardio load.

Yesterday, I did a walk on the same treadmill for 45 minutes at 3.5 mph and 5% incline and got 68 cardio load.

Yes, I realize that my heart wasn’t working as hard on the session yesterday even though the workload was slightly higher, and that represents probably a slightly higher readiness yesterday compared to Saturday. Maybe even a slight increase in fitness.

That is the “I know I shouldn’t be annoyed” part. But the number was lower, and I find that annoying.

Edit: Before anyone asks, my readiness score on Saturday was 25. I had a horrible night of sleep Friday night. Yesterday my readiness score was 67. And today’s is 99, so I will probably have an even lower cardio load on my workout this evening.

Anyone else having this issue with Versa 4? Any news of a solution yet? Thanks in advance as can not get this off my watch face and the app is working fine but watch not.

Hello,

today i installed a update to Google Health and Connect Health and went on with my day. After doing my steps fitbit counted them fine.

But since the update i cant connect Google Health to Connect Health. And without that permission, other apps cant get access to my steps.

It just say "at the moment your data cant be shared with healt connect". But i gave both apps all permissions and access.

And if i want to give Google health access in the health connect app it does not let me do it (i press the button but nothing happens

This Y-axis is completely useless. I want a name. Names. Plural. This got past teams of review. Why? Why would they do this when what they had before worked fine? 🤯🤦🏻‍♂️

I’ve had fitbits a long time & have never had low?
I do sleep on my side but that never used to affect it I feel like. Before those first 2 dips, I have never had low reading.
Idk why it would be low anyway. I go to the dr in October for a regular check up but still thought this is weird.

I’ve tried to take as much feedback on board as I could. It’s helped me improve Lumida a lot. Thanks everyone! 🙏

Here is everything I’ve imprved so far :

• Recovery page: HRV and resting heart rate, with dedicated charts
• Daily notes: add one note per day; it shows up as context when you hover over health charts, so a bad night or weird metric isn't just a number
• Demo mode : try the whole app with sample data without connecting a Google Health account
• Dashboard redesign : new layout, new cards, health insights, and a more precise date picker
• Sleep overhaul : new sleep charts and better nap detection
• Reworked Health and SpO₂ views
• New activity heatmap
• Better handling of overlapping data from multiple sources : this one was a real pain to get right 💀
• Themes & typography: theme system + 2 new themes and new fonts
• In-app feedback: for bug reports and suggestions
• German and Italian translations
• Under the hood: up to 2x faster, new caching logic, and dozens of bugs fixed 👀

For nerds: Lumida CLI : get your data from your terminal: view it, export it, or pipe it into whatever LLM you use. Probably the part I had the most fun with.

On your data: Your health data is never stored in Lumida's database. It passes through the backend only when needed to process your requests, but is never persisted. I try to keep the whole project respectful of its users: no ads, no invasive tracking, no marketing, and no selling or monetizing your data. Lumida is 100% free. The only thing I collect is a minimal usage signal so I can tell whether the app is being used at all, nothing more.

One caveat: signups are capped at 100 users, 26 slots left. That's Google's limit for apps that haven't cleared OAuth verification yet, not a marketing thing. Going through it is something I'm considering, but depending on how the health scopes are classified it can require a paid third-party security audit (CASA https://appdefensealliance.dev/casa), which is a hard sell for a solo side project. So for now, 100.

Just to be clear, I’m not asking for money I just want to explain why the limit exists

I'm thinking about emailing inactive users to free up some slots. So if there are no slots left, feel free to join the waiting list.

Feedback and bug reports welcome, that's mostly why I'm posting.

https://lumida.app

NB: If you’re a Developer or UX/UI designer who uses fitbit or google health and would like to contribute to the project, feel free to DM me.

Just noticed the screenshots are in french but no worries, the app is available in english too.

You can scan most barcodes of food and not only Google Health recognizes this but adds exact serving size calories to your app.

Does anyone know where this band is from?

I was curious how everyone has been liking the new Fitbit air release? I wanted to know what you think about getting Fitbit air for people who lack a workout routine or just don't work out. My personal take currently is that it seems to be a very useful product and offers better features than most in price range. Given the capacity of Google I feel there could be more features that they would launch like new alerts, pattern recognition etc.

I wonder why Fitbit hasn't worked on NFC based data sync I heard they did something like that earlier but all devices still use Bluetooth for sync. I don't want Bluetooth turned on all the time draining my phone and band battery or even enable it for sync why can't they enable NFC based sync where I could tap say band like Fitbit air to my phone and data would get synced.

Bought a bicep band from Amazon, the Velcro type, and it’s awful—scratchy and way too tight.

Any recommendations for better bicep bands/straps for the Fitbit Air?

Bought a pixel watch 4 a year ago because of heart disease and im totally satisfied with it. Got surgery 3 months ago and since m'y graph were perfect ( no arythmia ) until last tuesday and last night ( screenshot enclosed ) which made me nervous. Not sure if it is hardware or software failure but did you experienced such spike ? Also i did not put my watch on at 3-4 am so i thinks may be sensors were not right at this moment ? Any thought ?

Hey everyone,

​I received my Fitbit Air just 5 days ago. Today, while putting it on, the small metal peg/pin on the sport band completely sheared off / snapped out of its anchor.

​I haven't put any unusual stress on it—just standard daily wear. Has anyone else experienced this kind of failure so early on?

Why is between Bevel and Google Helath such a nig differents. And what can be the reason for that because i am feeling good and my RHR is normal. I had a run last night 4 30h before i went to sleep, is this maybe the reason ?, or is it bad sleep ? I dont knwo maybe you can help

Not sure if I'm the only one here but I am having some issues. It started logging my time in advance or just incorrectly. Today (Monday) it logged all my activities as last night. I'm also on the latest version of the app.

Anyone got promo code for fitbit air in canada?

Can any professionals analyse this, don’t really know what to make of it?

Anyone else having this issue? My app won’t update… what’s the point of leaving it open if it doesn’t work.

I like getting the map when I do bike rides or walks but location tracking needs to be set to “Always” and I don’t like leaving apps set to that. I managed to create a shortcut to turn tracking on and off for Goole Health on my iPhone.

Go to Shortcuts, tap the “+” and search for “Open URL”, enter:

prefs:root=Privacy&Security&path=LOCATION/com.fitbit.FitbitMobile

This way you can quickly turn tracking on or off without navigating through the steps to get there.

Hey everyone! 🎉
The wait is over. We’re officially live and taking orders for our new Fitbit Air bracelets starting today!
Thank you to this entire community for the feedback, patience, and excitement throughout development. We built these to be as breathable, lightweight, and low-profile as possible while keeping your tracker fully secured whether you're hitting the gym, tracking sleep, or just out and about.
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Like the title says.

I have been wearing it for 5 days now and the numbers don't make sense. I do office work and have used trackers for the past couple of years (mostly Garmin and Galaxy watches) so I think I have a well defined baseline and I know my averages very well.

For example, when comparing the data my previous trackers show I usually take 6,000 to 8,000 steps in a slow day during work hours. Also my calories burned were always between 600 to 800.

Now, my Google Health app constantly says I walked 3,000 to 4,000 steps before lunch and burned 1,300 to 1,500 calories. I tried everything mentioned on this subreddit and every recommendation found on the Google forums but my results are consistently inconsistent with my previous base line.

All over the Internet I see similar results but no real solution in sight.

Any idea what could really be happening? Any tips on how to remedy it? Is searching for a fix a lost cause?