Allow Fitbit devices to sync with Polar heart rate monitor

The Polar H7 chest heart monitor is so universal. I love it. Please, please allow the Fitbit watches to sync with it.

  

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

84 Comments
UrmiA
Keeping Pace

Yes please please consider incorporating data from polar HRM. I use H10 blue tooth monitor and would love for Fitbit to incorporate this data directly into the app to improve calories burned count as well as met index of an activity.

Miramx
First Steps

Please make this possibile.

katbit007
First Steps

I am submitting my vote to link with chest strap HR monitors.  This morning in my cardio workout class the HR on my Charge 3 was ranging from 108 - 162 during similar cardio bursts.  I am 53 years old and if my heart rate is hanging in the 160s during my workout I need to know and back off.  At times I am quite out of breath and the HR is showing 118 or so.  I think the HR is pretty good at other times, but during HIIT and high cardio I am worries I'm lacking the safe and necessary feedback.

pebbles2029
First Steps

Yes! Please integrate this. I have to use a separate Polar HR chest strap and receiver, which is frustrating, and on my next purchase it's likely I'll be switching to Garmin because it has ANT integration.

Status changed to: Not currently planned
YojanaFitbit
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Hi everyone, and thanks so much for sharing this suggestion! Our web API and smartwatch SDK are open which means that the service you are wanting can actually integrate with Fitbit. We’d encourage you to make this suggestion to the service and direct them to our existing API and SDK and resources such as the web dev API community. You will likely be able to email them via their contact us page or customer support, or they may have their own ideas board like this. Or encourage them to reach out to Fitbit directly.

 

Thanks for your participation in the Feature Suggestion forums, we look forward to making Fitbit more useful for you.

Magic91
First Steps
The connection with polar app which has the data from a session where you’ve worn the strap but not the Fitbit (in my case charge 5) I need to have my training session uploaded to my Fitbit app so that it knows I’ve trained and can calculate my readiness, or the future strain etc which you will add.
Plus the ability to log more data for session
YojanaFitbit
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Hi @Magic91, thanks for taking the time to share this suggestion about syncing with Polar app. This feature suggestion already exists, so I’ve moved your post here. While we don’t currently have plans to release this feature, we always appreciate the passion and creativity that comes out of this Community. Since we know this idea is important to many of you, we have left voting open to continue tracking interest and will post another update if anything changes. 

 

To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

 

I hope to see you around.

EmGi-
First Steps
Please let us connect our hear rate wrists from other companies like polar or myzone.
Nearly every other watch company offers this option.
It's necessary for high intensity workouts, because the HR of the watch can't measure in such fast intervals.
YojanaFitbit
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Hi @EmGi-, we wanted to let you know that the ideas you recently posted already exist on the Feature Suggestions Board.  I've moved one into a similar request. You can see the second one here, where you can add your vote to this existing suggestion:


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