Last Updated on February 21, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
The Garmin Connect Activity tracking dashboard shows parameters which are interesting for meditators. The Garmin Connect activity tracking dashboard looks almost identical to Home Assistant dashboards, which suggests that the unterlying software is the same. But almost all parameters are not really helpful for meditators expept for the resting heart rate, which is calculated as an average over the last 7 days. And the resting heart rate shown in Garmin Connect cannot be used for scientific studies. Where is the scientific validation paper for it.
And other parameters such as respiration rate and stress vary strongy, if you compare the data recorded from two Garmin watches to each other. Respiration and stress deliver numerical data which are not helpful for scientists like Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org. These numerical data are eventually only helpful for the business scientists who work for Garmin to increase theirs sales to have another fancy parameter with a nice coloful plot or graph in Garmin Connect. Choose instead ECG and EEG devices based on the ADS1115 16-Bit Analog-to-Digital Converter if you are a meditator at the level of Scott Harden, PhD. How to Electronics from India or Hugo Plácido da Silva.