Heart rate zones alert feature

[kingtut1975]

 Many fitness enthusiasts and individuals of whom base their workouts on target heart rate zones would really appreciate a heart rate alert feature implemented into the new Fitbit Ionic as well -if possible ALL Fitbit watches. This feature would allow a Fitbit user to manually set their Fitbit watch to alert the user once their targeted maximum and minimum heart rate has been achieved while performing a workout. Â The watch would vibrate on the user's wrist alerting the user when their selected heart rate has been accomplished or met allowing the user to more cater their workouts to stay within a selected threshold. Â Implementing this feature will also serve well as a safety feature which can alert the user when their calculated heartrate is dangerously high or above the maximum threshold that they set enabling the user to adjust their workout accordingly. Â Some Fitbit users I can imagine and many other individuals have cardiovascular/heart related issues which prevent them engaging in a workout that is too intense therefore a heart rate alert feature implemented into the new Fitbit Ionic would make the watch more marketable to the present customer base, a broader audience of fitness enthusiasts, and desirable to a whole new market of individuals of whom have cardiovascular/heart issues and will really appreciate a heartrate alert feature implemented into their fitness/activity trackers. Overall, implementing this feature will likely increase popularity of the watch, increase revenue, and appeal to a wider range of individuals that are taking steps to improve their health through daily workouts but are limited to what they can do due to cardiovascular/heart concerns. Â Implementing this feature can likely be as simple as have software engineering add it to a software/firmware update which will allow it to perform identical to the silent/vibrating alarm feature already included in most Fitbit watches anyhow.

Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity, format & labels.

[suphansa]

Vote +1 Please add an alert

[AltBegrunna]

 Showing bpm in percentage would make it more easy to stay out of zones, and avoid the build up to zones that give you lactid acid. This is very helpfull for us that are not pro atlethes. using a color of hearth, and not going into the numbers is really just dumbing things down and focusing on astetics. Please do incorporate this as a standard on all watches. I see this last post is from 2017, and I find it quite dissapointing it is not implemented yet. I just got a versa for xmas, and i love it. But this is a very big minus. Are there any third party apps i could use here? 

[bswiftly]

Your competitors understand this as a core feature.  

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/vivosmarthr/EN-US/GUID-FA3BE45C-9E7B-49EE-BC71-EDAEB9C2EBF9....

Fitbit makes enough money selling these devices.   The code to implement this is conceptually simple, and even if your codebase is crap and test automation sucks... you should still be able to get this done. 

I wish I didn't assume this before buying...  maybe I'm still within my amazon return window and can get a garmin?

[dcjcrewe]

A Fitbit response to a community question directed me hear so that I could vote for this but I can't see the option to do that so it's a comment instead. It's just as well as now I can see just how long this arguably essential feature has been requested, over 4 years since the first, it's taken over 3.5 years for the status to be changed to "under consideration.... with no firm commitment or timescale..." Come on Fitbit, this is such a basic and essential feedback feature of any monitor especially where pulse is concerned for all the reasons stated in the prologue?! I bought my first heart rate monitor, Polar back in 1999, nearly 20 years ago as you can imagine it was very basic but even that included notifications to let you know when you'd entered or left your target heart rate zone! I have a Fitbit Aria scale and a Surge watch. What you charge for these would lead you to expect market leading features and functionality and reliability. Sadly you disappoint on all counts. Now I see how long it takes you to act on the simplest of reasonable requests I realise what contempt you must hold for your loyal customers. I've had this under current of dissatisfaction for a while but I stuck with Fitbit because of the huge investment I'd made in those two products. I've got to tell you I'm starting mt research now and the next time my wristband snap with it's planned obsolescence, the unique charger cable fails (I've bought 6 in less than 3 years!), the scales fail to measure body fat %, recognise me or update to the server without being reset and restarted I'll be changing..... I'm also telling this and my tales to my fitness and other social media communities. One thing I learned in business is that it costs much much more to sell to a new customer than it does to get an existing customer to buy again next time and / or upgrade. It seems like you are ignorant of this or positively / complacently ignoring it, which one?

[SunsetRunner]

Is it possible to get the charger 2 to vibrate or something when I hit my maximum heart bets per minute with is a 100 ?? 

[MarcelBK]

Hi @SunsetRunner, thanks for taking the time to share your feedback with us, this feature suggestion already exists so I’ve moved your post here as it is under consideration.

[SunsetRunner]

Ok that’s good as I need it as my Doctor said my heart rate is not aloud to go over 100 beats per 



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[Piip]

This feature has been requested for several years and has been under “consideration” for a very long time – it is still “under consideration.” Any chance you can share with the fitbit community when you suspect this feature will exist? It would be so great to be alerted with a watch vibration when my heart rate has reached my high and low preferred numbers. I would like to always be within a range of 130 and 120, but for now, I have to keep watching – all the time watching. I downloaded a heartrate app on the ionic, but when the app is active, I can’t use any other ionic feature. Thanks for listening and please let us know when this might move on from “under consideration” to an actual feature.

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[Klai]

I would like to see fitbit add the feature or a simular one as the apple watch for an alarm for high or out of rhythm heart rate. I am contemplating buying the new versa, but I think I will wait to see uf this feature get added first.  

[Bullcrappy]

So this has been requested for about 4 years.  Competitors have it.

Also the advertised and promised O2 feature still is not released.

Decent product but very disappointed in follow through by FitBit.
Likely they see the demand and will release it in next model in the hopes we all buy that one.  That would be a bad assumption on Fitbits part IMO.

Rich

[cjs2pc]

I would like a configurable heart rate zone alert added to the running app. The idea is that I can use it to make sure I can stay within the cardio or fat burn zone and am not going into peak zone.

So, I want to be able to run, get a vibrate when my heart rate goes above the set rate, and then I can slow down a bit to lower it.

I am really surprised that this is not already a feature as it seems so simple, yet useful. A Google search shows a lot of people asking for it. Some intern could probably knock it out in a day.

[Slowlydoesit]

@Bullcrappy yup, if I’m forced to buy a new model I’ll buy something else just on principle.

Personally I don’t even care right now if I need to have the Fitbit app open on my iPhone to get the alerts, and that definitely wouldn’t require new hardware. I have an Alta HR so I can’t download an app for this, as I could with the ionic.

[Bullcrappy]

Agreed, FitBit will continue to lose market if they continue treating us this way.  Sad but true.

[AviB]

They lost me already!
I moved to Mi Band 3, for $25 and waterproof, recharging battery about once a month.

[RunningForward]

Having recently realised that I've been training/running in a very ineffective way (for my body) for the past 20 years, I have discovered HR training - I would greatly benefit from a vibration alert when I reach my maximum target heart rate, to let me know when to slow down. I currently have to keep looking at my watch every minute or so and it's getting really tedious! Please implement this feature - it seems to be quite an easy fix reading the suggestions and comments already made. I use both an ionic and a Charge HR. Thank you!

[jewel3]

I also wish that there was an alarm to set when I stray above or below my target work out zone.  Apple doesn't have it yet either, or you would have lost me.  Hurry up!  I'd rather stay with Fitbit! 

[TerryTT350]

Hi There All, It's the beginning of my training year so I have just started doing base training to build my aerobic tank. To do that I have to stay with in my aerobic zone's and for me that's with a minimum HR of 115 and a Maximum of 118 to make that a lot easier, if my Ionic had an alarm that either sent an alarm to my blue tooth head set or vibrated when I am either above the zones or below them that would make a lot of sense. I have been using heart rate monitors for some 20 years and most of them have had that feature. What does not make sense is Ionic has higher and lower zone's that you can set but they do northing? Also it would be great if I could pair it with a heart rate strap then I could mount the watch on the handle bars of my bike or I can see it when I am on the treadmill with out having to look at my arm.

Cheers

Terry 

[800_cal_per_day]

This is a great idea and seems like an easy win for fitbit and fitbit programmers.

I'm trying to raise my v02 max and having something to push me and reach my goal without having to break concentration and rhythym by scanning wrist would be great. The hardware components seem to be already there.

[800_cal_per_day]

This is a great idea and seems like an easy win for fitbit and fitbit programmers.

I'm trying to raise my v02 max and having something to push me and reach my goal without having to break concentration and rhythym by scanning wrist would be great. The hardware components seem to be already there.

[MarcelBK]

Hi @TerryTT350, thanks for taking the time to share your feedback with us, this feature suggestion already exists so I’ve moved your post here as it is under consideration.

[EdnosAnnie]

Don't hold your breath  @TerryTT350, it has 'been under consideration' for years now. As soon as I find an alternative that offers me the ability for an alarm when my pulse goes below a set number, I will be off and I will have great pleasure in letting everyone know why. Fitbit just want your money. They don't care about the user experience. 

[jewel3]

I see this heart rate zone alert has supposedly been in the works since 2015.  Why is it so hard?  Whichever company comes out with it first gets my purchase. I have the old HR charge and am ready to update anyway.  

[Bullcrappy]

Empty Promises from this company.

Is the O2 sensing working yet?

[TerryTT350]

Hi There
It does exist BUT it does not have an alarm or vibrate to let the wearer know they are out of the zone.
Thanks

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[TerryTT350]

Thanks Mate, I am taking mine back and I am going to buy a Garmin 935 does ever thing I need.
Cheers

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