how to pair external heart rate monitor to apple watch

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how to pair external heart rate monitor to apple watch

hello, i have a polar blue tooth H 7 heart rate monitor, and i have read that people are syncing them to the apple watch as its a little faster to

get your heart rate this way on a run, for instance, and it also cuts down on the battery drain of the watch when exercising.

i can not figure out how to pair it.. before the watch came, i would sync it using the digifit app on my iphone. i tried this, but the watch was

still doing its own heart rate thing, so syncing the old way to my iphone seemed to not override the built in heart rate monitor on the watch.

so... how do you pair it to the watch? many thanks!

denise

many macs all sorts.. about 10 at my office, Mac OS X (10.4.10), iphone!

Posted on Apr 28, 2015 12:08 PM

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Sep 14, 2017 11:23 AM in response to Everman

Hi, did you ever figure this out? I paired my chest strap to my watch but the calories don't add up, it's definitely coming from my watch.

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edj01

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Nov 23, 2017 7:44 PM in response to tmbutler18

Did you managed to sort this out? I'm getting the exact same problem!

Thanks!

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cycler15

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Apr 28, 2015 12:10 PM in response to dri22

Go to settings on your watch and go to bluetooth, it will search for health devices if you are wearing a HR monitor strap

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dri22 Author

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Apr 28, 2015 12:13 PM in response to cycler15

omg. thank you. it was right in front of my face the whole time... i think i am apple watch dizzy. been staring at the thing and pushing all the buttons for two days. thanks again...

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Apr 28, 2015 12:32 PM in response to dri22

Follow up question: when the polar H7 shows that it is connected, is it now feeding the heart rate info to the workout app. as far as I could tell this morning, it was not, because my precor elliptical, which displays the heart rate from the same monitor, was showing a different number than the watch. Is it necessary to use the H7 with a thrid-party app?

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Everman

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Jun 5, 2015 6:08 PM in response to dri22

I have the same question. It seems that simply pairing in the Bluetooth settings area isn't enough to get H7 data in the workout app. The workout app is still lighting the green LED's and is reading from the watch, not the H7. I tested this by putting the H7 on a different person and had them jump rope while showing the heartrate in the workout app. It stayed at 68bpm, obviously not the jump-roper.

The apple 'workout walk through' video on apple.com mentions at the very end that you can use another health device like a heart rate monitor, then shows how to pair it, but the video ends there.

How do we direct H7 data to the workout app?

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