Does Mio sync with MFP?

shadow2soul wrote: »

Mio Go won't directly sync with MFP. However, you can sync the Mio with these apps which also sync with MFP:

-MapMyRun
-Digifit
-MiCoach
-Runkeeper
-Runtastic
-MapMyFitness
-Edomondo

I have been using a MIO Alpha now for almost a year with Digifit (iPhone) and now iCardio (Digifit for Android must be a name infringement or something or different developer) Before the alpha i used Wahoo, and before that many Polar devices all with chest straps. the Mio Alpha wrist heartrate is very good and the new units are even better i hear. I bike, indoor lift weights, swim indoors and outdoors, run/jog, and etc. logging to digifit/icardio and then it syncs to MFP where i track food and etc input and then the exercise is tracked (reported) outgiing by Digifit/iCardio. tried Runkeeper, Runtastic, MapMyfitness, but they like GPS and outdoor movement andactivity OR requrie a network connection for calorie or exercise profiles etc.

Digifit does indoor and outdoor and you can have NO internet connection or cell coverage and it will handle VOm2 calulcations from YOUR profile or fitness assessments etc. and you just sync later after you come outdoors or out of the pool area, etc.

According to this old blog post, the Mio app itself was supported by MFP. Unfortunately, the Mio link is broken. I contacted support and was told:

Yes the Mio app has been removed from our partner integration list.
We cannot go in details on why it was removed, we can only say we will not be supporting it anymore or in the future.
No, it doesn't seem like it will [return].

I cross-referenced the MyFitnessPal and Mio application lists to get a complete list of possible intermediate apps:

1. Digifit/iCardio (iOS) (Android)
2. Endomondo (iOS) (Android)
3. MapMyFitness (iOS) (Android)
4. miCoach (iOS) (Android)
5. PEAR Training (iOS) (Android)
6. Wahoo Fitness (iOS) (Android)
7. MapMyRun (iOS) (Android)
8. RunKeeper (iOS) (Android)
9. Runtastic (iOS)
10. MapMyRide (iOS) (Android)
11. Cyclemeter (iOS)
12. Strava (iOS)

I'll probably give at least the first 3 a try, though I'm open to suggestions on everyone's favorite. I'm on Android, BTW.

As expected, there's no direct way to get the activity tracking data from Mio FUSE to MFP. The data is there in Mio Go but as Mio Go and MFP don't talk, the data won't sync. Mio Go will put "Active Calories" and "Resting Calories" into Apple Health app (iOS only) and in theory MFP could get it from there but at the moment MFP doesn't read that data from Health.

I have to say I am somewhat disappointed with the Mio FUSE. The heart rate data is not all that accurate (compared to my Garmin heart rate chest strap which I was hoping to replace) and it is difficult to make sense of the active and total calories it reports. Note that I completely understand the definitions of "active" and "total" calories it is the numbers provided that don't make sense. e.g. 3750 steps used only 6 active calories.

Active calories are the additional calories you burn doing exercise. Since walking is taken into consideration as part of your baseline metabolism, any additional steps that you take outside what you are predicted for the day would become active calories, based on your estimated 'normal' activity for the day.

Any exercise you do, cycling, running, swimming etc, is considered outside of normal calorie burn for the day, so they are active calories.