Q: Software shortcoming?: Apple Watch and Polar H7
I have been using my Apple Watch for my running workouts and noticed that the heart rate indicator is terrible. I want to have a more accurate reading so I purchased a Polar H7 heart rate monitor. As far as I can tell the monitor works really well. I am able to use it to see my heart rate anytime that I want and it works during workouts consistently. I have it paired to the Apple Watch. The nuts and bolts of my question is that when I use the workouts on my watch I select indoor run or outdoor walk or whatever the workout is and I do not get a heart rate indication during that workout, however, I do to get live heart rate telemetry when I select the "other" workout... And only this "other" workout profile. I want live HR info during my run **** it! I do have power save mode on for workouts to disable the built in HR monitor from being activated. This says it should still be receiving telemetry from other HR monitors, and clearly it is because it works fine when the "other" profile is selected.
When I complete a run I do not get in the summary on my watch any indication that the monitor has recorded any HR during the entire exercise, then when I check my phone it shows that it did get lots of telemetry (at least 1 reading every second) during my exercise and incorporates that in the workout summary displayed on iPhone.
Is this a software short coming or am I doing something wrong? Anyone else have this problem? It seems to me the H7 is working fine and there is a software error not displaying the rate. Any known fixes or workarounds?
Hardware:
iPhone 6 64 GB running iOS 9 .3 .2
Apple Watch Sport 42mm running watchOS 2.2.1
iPhone 6, iOS 9.1
Posted on Jul 6, 2016 6:38 PM