Ray, did you test the scale with multiple users syncing to Garmin. Garmin Connect use Your weight/height/age/sex to calculate base/active calories (and maybe other values). The Index S2 smart scales will work well for multiple family/team members and will work well when switched between multiple dwellings. Really interested with the body fat part of this scale, but is it any good ? The older scale I currently use has never provided a higher weight reading seven days in a row without my clothing fitting a little bit tighter. Garmin Index is Wi-Fi connected, allowing you to wirelessly sync your data to Garmin Connect. Thanks // Alex, I think Zwift only supports Nokia withings and Fitbit that’s big draw back specially for Zwift races. I somehow got it to sync with Garmin and Strava, but I have not idea how. Both literally and figuratively. This seemed to work OK for me but an Apple developer did tell me that “, Automate the connections with a health data sharing app like. The most common question I receive outside of the “what’s the best GPS watch for me” variant, are photography-esq based. My wife prefers imperial and I prefer metric. Next, you have to pair the scales to your Garmin Connect account and it’s going to be REALLY useful if you also connect it to your Wifi. Some places in the world the connection to the garmin ntp server is really bad. And will your presentation be available on youtube? Yes, the Garmin Index Scale is designed to work in the Garmin Connect environment as well as to optionally send measurements to other apps such as Apple Health. Unless by some strange miracle I have been able to hold 7% body fat for 19 straight months. Best For Arterial Health. And here’s the scale sitting atop its wrapper. The audience is split. Updated constantly! They don’t need to worry as they only support there devices. You might have two houses, you might want to connect to a hotel WiFi or a holiday house WiFi or you might want to go to a friend/family’s house to regularly weigh one of them. Crisis averted! Setting Up Your Device. The size is a bit smaller, though not massively so. Then hit up Wiggle at the link below! You input your height in Garmin Connect and it is synced to the scale. My favourite application is link to trendweight.com for the smoothed graph and trend-line. Given that on some months I can see my abs, and no others, I am guessing my BF% has fluctuated a little. In case anyone else should encounter this issues, this is what I am seeing on my scale. It’s not worth turning the scale over and switching back to pounds, so every day is an adventure, and I’m very familiar with my weight in stone and kg as well as pounds. And it’s easy to say ‘Sure, it’ll fill in over the course of the next 30 days’, and yes, it will. I do have a preorder on the Wyze headphones…yeah, a sucker for their low price/high functionality devices… Is the scale a winner? This new scale is a refresh to the uber-popular Garmin Index, which is now five years old. After the disaster with the useless bodyfat readings of my two Index scales my first interest now is accuracy of such readings of the INDEX S2. Hopefully you found this review useful. It also adds a handful of tweaks like being able to customize the data widgets on-screen, showing difference to previous weigh-in, as well as increasing the sensitivity of some of the sensors driving the algorithms related to body fat & impedance-based measurements. Hi Ray, thanks for the coverage, I enjoyed your keynote today. Is it true? The original Garmin Index? I’d expect a scale from garmin that knows every step I take all day would know my weight is low because I just ran. NOTE: Most readers go on to buy the Withings Body+ ! Is the data from the scale used in Garmin Connect as base for BMR calculations (and other weight based metrics)? Conversely: I’ve had 3 DEXA scans, each 6 months apart while cutting. Patrick even sent me an email before I noticed my weight was not sycning with Garmin when I had changed my Garmin password and hadn’t remember to update it in the SmartScaleSync website. Very fine hairline scratches all over the glass top Photo is out of focus but this was the only way to capture the scratches, instead of a reflection of my bathroom ceiling. For example, with the huge surge in indoor training, apps need correct weight information to accurately simulate cycling courses/speeds. Get Help Garmin Support Center. My index 1 stopped recording body weight metrics about a year ago after three or four years of ownership. I found that people who had partners that used the scale mucked up the Garmin health data. (I would love tighter integration with Garmin. It’s as simple as that. Love Garmin products, so decided to pick this up for the wife and I. I am still using my Fitbit Aria, sometimes I wish it had more metrics though. The scale isn’t getting any information despite your height from the server.  If you’re trying to decide which unit to buy – check out my in-depth reviews section. About the scales: If you really have to kick the scale before stepping on it to wake it up – that’s a huge disappointment. Its a full fake. Now do I really want another doodad in the house…. I have quite a few wyze cams, but I’ve kind of soured on them as a company. There’s been too many late night Stroopwafels for me lately for that to impact my testing. – Both black and white versions (Pro Tip: The black version is impossible to keep clean, white is half-possible). Ageing display design but it works well enough. Albeit, I can’t say having a color display on my weight scale next to the toilet has been a major improvement in my day to day life. I do not buy the S2 unless, unless I find a serious unbiased review showing that the S2 can measure more than just weight. Does the device work well with recharcheable NiMH batteries? not ideal, Speaking of scales – https://www.amazfit.com/en/smart-scale.html, they must be new? No, athlete mode is disabled on my Nokia/Withings Body+. I often cannot see products that people link to. Thats also the reason it doesnt show you 30days trend when you unbox it even when you had the S1. But that’s not the point. And, once this post goes live the image and codename Garmin uses will magically change to the correct product image and real name instead of placeholders (Garmin does this for all products, to minimize leaks). The reviews generally take a lot of hours to put together, so it’s a fair bit of work (and labor of love). Smart Trainers Buyers Guide: Looking at a smart trainer this winter? You likely won't find a better option that works this well with Garmin Connect. They take a nice compromise with an indicator for each day that shows the range of readings and I’m not entirely sure if the LAST reading or AVERAGE reading is shown. Seems like reasonable refreshes of neglected products though I will not be replacing my original Index. which it isn’t. I wonder why the scale cannot display additional info from our Garmin watch, like body battery, stress score or sleep quality. Tip: Your Garmin Connect account can be a dormant one that you only use for the purpose of sending the data somewhere else. Many readers stumble into my website in search of information on the latest and greatest sports tech products. (This information was also included in a manual for scales) There is no body fat percentage setting (I can’t find that) and for proper calorie calculations I must cheat GC putting in setting my weight minus 20kg (weight I should have being not overweight) to have proper Calorie calculations (values similar to other sources). The actual measurements from the scale would be more useful long term to me, since they have over the years suddenly changed algorithms and their ‘activity’ level settings. Yet, it pulls in the weather data just fine. Should I buy a Garmin Index S2 or would I prefer some good weight Tanita? From this moment forward it’ll look worse, even if you never touch it. it was one or the other. On the back there are two electronic “buttons”. Garmin Index is Wi-Fi connected, allowing you to wirelessly sync your data to Garmin Connect. I am wondering what happens if you change your age in the scale to say 50, or 20? My wife is a bit higher, in the 16% range, and measure 25-26%. I really with more companies would take the route of Withings (e.g. I say messy, because they’d basically have to setup a backend webservice to receive and store that data and then create their own trends. Somehow do tilt based controls from the individual foot sensors. Perhaps there’s a number of people that need to switch quickly between the modes, I don’t know. Garmin was always either 2.8kg or 2.9kg and Tanita RD953 was always 4.1kg. Mine were relatively thin, thus, likely less impact. It is yet to be confirmed what we will see in its successor, the Garmin Index S2. At the end of the day, I’m an athlete just like you looking for the most detail possible on a new purchase – so my review is written from the standpoint of how I used the device. Your partner has to create a Garmin Account and FIRST get connected to you. Could be the reason why it didn’t work! If that would be to difficult, could you at least do two easy checks for me? Otherwise, all the detailed information follows afterwards so scroll down for that. Garmin Index Wifi Scale. I did a work-a-round by adding a dns entry in my router for the garmin ntp that will point it … Outbound is pretty easy to get approval for. – Increased sensitivity of sensors Or is it just weight? The body is 60% water and weight fluctuates considerably before/after exercise. If I had to spend just 1 manual minute every day to get my data somehow to the Garmin ecosystem, it would already be a bad investment to buy something else.