Questions before buying, watch-faces, music, apps etc...

[calamityclamuk]

Hi Having owned a vivoactive 3, apple watch 2, geat fit 2 and an old fitbit charge, I am looking at the Ionic as it seems to slot in somewhere between all of these.

A few questions does the Ionic :

1) Have a watch-face with your next appointment/agenda displayed

2) Can you automatically sync your run with Strava/Endomondo/Garmin

3) Does the sleep tracker automatically detect sleep and does it display REM sleep

4) Can you control your Spotify music, not install your spotify, but control the music on your phone.

5) Can you view your cadence whilst out running on the watch.

Hope you can help, thanks.

[SunsetRunner]

Hi @calamityclamuk. I’ll answer what I can..

1) Have a watch-face with your next appointment/agenda displayed

    - Not at this time. But if you set an alarm on your appointment/agenda, it will send an alarm to the Ionic at the time you specified. 

3) Does the sleep tracker automatically detect sleep and does it display REM sleep

    - Yes, The Ionic tracks sleep automatically and shows the time spent in REM, Awake, Light Sleep and Deep Sleep. It also shows you when the various stages occur.

4) Can you control your Spotify music, not install your spotify, but control the music on your phone.

    - No, Spotify is not currently available for Ionic. But you can tap here to add your vote to the request for Fitbit to support Spotify.

5) Can you view your cadence whilst out running on the watch.

     - I’m afraid I do not know the answer. Perhaps someone else can answer this. 

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[jwebb72]

2) Can you automatically sync your run with Strava/Endomondo/Garmin

Yes to Strava/Endomondo

4) Can you control your Spotify music, not install your spotify, but control the music on your phone.

Yes you can, through the bluetooth classic connection like on the Blaze.

5) Can you view your cadence whilst out running on the watch.

Only way that I know is with the 3rd party app called Cadence Coach.

[bbarrera]

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@calamityclamuk wrote:

1) Have a watch-face with your next appointment/agenda displayed

2) Can you automatically sync your run with Strava/Endomondo/Garmin

3) Does the sleep tracker automatically detect sleep and does it display REM sleep

4) Can you control your Spotify music, not install your spotify, but control the music on your phone.

5) Can you view your cadence whilst out running on the watch.

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1) Fitbit doesn't support calendars, but maybe a 3rd party watch face has this

2) Fitbit will only push GPS tracked runs to Strava (no auto-tracked runs).

3) Yes, but keep in mind Fitbit's own research show sleep tracking is poor to good. I've tried sleep tracking several times and decided its best to give my wrist a break at night.

4) Generally possible to control music on your phone, but there are several reasons it might not work on a specific phone and/or version of Spotify.

5) No running cadence using Fitbit's exercise tracking. If someone mentions a 3rd party app, keep in mind it won't be recognized on Fitbit dashboard/app as an activity with GPS and HR because Fitbit does not allow 3rd parties to upload GPS and HR (unlike almost every other fitness platform)

[jwebb72]

@bbarrera I thought Fitbit could auto sync workouts to Endomondo, maybe it's a new feature? I've never tried personally though.

Fitbit - "Fitbit is added to Endomondo as a workout, thus you get all the benefits of the workout statistics from the Fitbit Tracker, e.g., total duration, total calories, total distance, total workouts. And also a new statistic on steps - Avg. steps." and "It usually takes between 1 and 48 hours before your FitBit workouts are visible on your Endomondo profile(depending on the traffic on the website) and vice versa. If your workouts haven't been synchronized after 48 hours please try un-pair/re-pair your accounts."

[bbarrera]

@jwebb72 Endomondo grabs from Fitbit:

- daily step count

- daily calories

- daily miles

and sleep according to this post.

Endomondo takes those daily totals, and enters them as an Endomondo "workout" so that Fitbit daily totals can appear in graphs as shown in item 6 on that page. For me, its of no value. Its like the Runkeeper "integration" that only receives daily totals and no individual workouts.

I do use Endomondo to push bike rides from Garmin Edge bike computer (Garmin Connect > Endomondo > Fitbit), however Fitbit doesn't allow importing of GPS, Heart Rate, power, cadence, and temperature.