Last Updated on February 9, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
Which is the easiest heart rate monitor to attach to InfluxDB?
We suggest to use the Apple watch according to this example:
The Apple watch is not the most accurate HRM device, but it is one of the most popular devices. Other devices are more difficult to start with for developers. We started meditating with a Garmin Forerunner 235. It is an optical heart rate watch, it is not very accurate, but it was popular, and had many features. We suppose for these reasons many people worked on it to develop it, but also to prevent users to access sensor data, which make Garmin watches difficult for developers.
We could not find many new developments in our area of interest. Only a new research gate net paper every now and then:
from people who do not seem to have a long-term goal, since their papers about their developements stop. We have a long-term goal. And we suppose we came to a point where it does not make much sense anymore to look further for papers and instructions. For papers it is eventually worth to look for those, before we start coding ourselves.
We have introduced many examples which are interesting for coders. We are non-coders. But we are at a point where it becomes more interesting to start learning Python, and to connect Python code blocks to each other, as well as hardware building blocks. Most of what we are looking for is already available, but we have to build it together from code building blocks and from hardware building blocks by ourselves.