MFP, Strava, health kit, fitbit

underoverupanddown

Some of you may have noticed that multiple entries of activities are showing up on fitbit, mfp, healthkit etc.

Has anyone come up with a way to sync all these apps without each one writing data to one another?

I've been playing with permissions with the healthkit, and all that but don't have it completely sorted

Thanks!

heybales

First you need to decide which app is for tracking exercise and/or daily burn, and what is tracking food, and which is going to suggest eating levels.

Perhaps you want MFP for the food database and recipe builder, so you want it to give eating goals.

Then you want Fitbit for daily activity.

But you have another app for workouts whose calorie burn you trust.

If you can sync that other app directly to MFP ONLY, then MFP will get it to Fitbit.

Don't expect MFP or Fitbit to be great for reviewing workouts or containing extra stats - that's what the other app is for. And usually extra stats don't come over in the workout info - start time, duration, calorie burn, perhaps activity type/description.

If the other app only syncs with Fitbit, or perhaps both is option, you can go directly and only to Fitbit too. For MFP friends to see the workout - you'll need to make a wall post on what you did.
See my wall post as example.

Now - if your Fitbit has also logged the activity - that is an Activity Record - it is merely showing the stats for that chunk of time, so it's not buried in the daily stats and you can actually review it later.

If you sync from MFP or other app a workout, or manually enter it - that is a Workout Record - it is showing the stats brought over or entered - and replacing whatever Fitbit saw and put in the daily stats.

So if your Fitbit created an Activity Record - that's the stats it saw. A snapshot you might say.

If MFP or other app then syncs in a workout - that Workout Record just replaced those stats. The Activity Record as a snapshot doesn't change, but the daily stats do.

You can then delete that Activity Record if you desire, or if it contains HR info, perhaps keep it.
It is doing nothing to your daily stats if replaced with a Workout Record - except looking confusing when you try to review them.

Workout records you cannot edit - only delete.
Activity records you can edit - like the name of the activity or info about it in the notes.