Apple watch Series 3 and external heart rate monitor
Hi..
Just bought an Apple Watch 3 and sold my old Garmin Fenix 3 watch.
I'm using my watch for tracking excecises in the gym, and for my outdoor runs, and
found the build in HRM not usefull for training like that.
Then I bought the Wahoo Tickr HRM, and thougth that it would do the
trick 🙂..
For about a week now, i have tried to figure out how to pair and use the external
HRM insted of the internal one in the Apple Watch but without any luck!
What I am doing:
- Activate the Wahoo Tickr (Parringmode)
- Open Bluetooth settings in the Apple Watch.
- Tapping the name of the Wahoo Tickr when it show up.
- Wahoo Tckr is now connected.
- Starting a outdoor run in the training app on the Apple Watch.
- Observing that the green LED's is ligting up under the watch??
- Confused and dont know if it is the internal or the external HRM that is doing the job??
Ok, then I try to deaktivate the internal HRM in the watch (Settings -> General -> training). As
written under this option, this does NOT deaktivate the external bluetooth connected devices!
- Activate the Wahoo Tickr (Parringmode)
- Open Bluetooth settings in the Apple Watch.
- Tapping the name of the Wahoo Tickr when it show up.
- Wahoo Tckr is now connected.
- Starting a outdoor run in the training app on the Apple Watch.
- Observing that the green LED's now is OFF.. 🙂
- But..... Now the the heat rate BPM is missing in the training app??
I have tested the Wahoo Tickr HRM in other app's on my iPhone 7, and it is working fine. Of
course I remember to unpair the Tickr from the iPhone before trying to connect it to the Watch.
I also tried to disconnect the watch from the iPhone, but nothing helps!
Another thing i noticed is, that the Nike+ running app (watch and iPhone) dont show heart rate
at all as the only app! I dont care because I dont use Nike+. Just a information 😉.
Main reason i want to use the external HRM is that the build in HRM is making wird mesurings
when I am doing exercises. Most of the time it shows a way to low result like 55-65 BPM where
it should show something like 110-140 BPM. Most of the time it do not mesure anything, but that
is what I expect of a build in HRM like this.
Am I doing something totaly wrong here?? Hope some one can help and point me in the right
direction.
Regards
Michael.
Apple Watch Series 3, watchOS 4