I noticed that Withings Health Mate for Android now imports data from S Health, so this is a viable means of getting S Health data into Exist, as we already support Withings.

This is important because of people who user Samsung Gear to track activity, just like me. :)

FYI: Withings Health Mate only imports steps from S-Health. It’s a shame because if you use Gear to track your heart rate, there’s no way to transfer that data to Withings. Also, the step count seems to be inaccurate. Idk why.

Having just switched to a Gear from a Jawbone, I would really like to see this implemented. Would an API mapping help at all? I could at least throw together a CSV for that, but I’d prefer to not have to write a script to push the data myself.

@racheldonahue there’s still no public API as far as I’m aware, just an SDK because the data lives on the device I think rather than “in the cloud”. So to connect this to Exist we’d need to write an Android app connector or add it to the Exist for Android app. This adds complexity and inconsistency (and this confusion!) as all our other services are integrated from the Exist server rather than in an app. I’d really rather avoid it. If this gets a lot more votes I’d look into all our options but right now it’s just not popular enough either, sorry.

If you’d like to write an integration yourself, though, you are more than welcome to do so with our API. I’ve always got to time to help people use the API more so shout if you need a hand :)

@joshsharp Well, that would complicate things–I have zero Java chops! I’ll take a closer look this weekend. Thanks for the quick reply. :smile:

@racheldonahue no worries, good luck!

I like S Health. I have just discovered and installed an App that syncs S Health and Google Fit. It is called Health Sync and is available on Google Play. It will sync either way so now I have my S Health info going into Google Fit and therefore into Exist.

+1

Sync with shealth would be a great feature for me!

Hi josh, this is a big one for me, since I use S-Health for running, eating and probably in the future for swimming (with a Gear Sport). Do you think I can help somehow? I don’t use Java but I’m a good Python developer :)

Hey Paolo, because the only way to get the data is via Samsung’s Android SDK, unfortunately you’d need to write an Android app that took the S Health data and sent it to Exist. I don’t know how hard it is to write Android apps in Python — I think possible, but not easy — but if you can figure it out you could write yourself a connector app!

I use Samsung Health to track everything as well: * Steps / Exercise / HR / Sleep using Gear S3; * Weight / Water / Caffeine manually; * Food using connected apps.

I use Health Sync to sync Samsung Health -> Google Fit. But, sleep data is not being imported from Google Fit yet. That would make it 100% compatible with Samsung Health.

Uhm so this Health Sync already knows how to connect to Samsung (but in JAVA).

Well I hope to have time to dig deeper

I second Health Sync, it’s been a great app for me. Google Fit is a much more open fitness hub than S Health, and I agree that if Exist could import sleep data from Fit, then direct S Health integration would become less important (though still useful for those who won’t or can’t use Health Sync for any reason).

Maybe that would get by until Samsung hopefully someday opens a real public API for S Health data.

Cool, if people are happy to use that app then that makes sense. I hope you’ve all voted for Sleep from Google Fit :) https://changemap.co/hellocode/exist/task/1824-sleep-from-google-fit/

So interesting news here. Samsung decided to open up to third party app: https://www.wareable.com/samsung/samsung-s-health-now-plays-nice-with-fitbit-jawbone-and-misfit-2925 - I can confirm that the menu is there, so it is now possible to receive data. Could we investigate how exists could end up in that menu? :)

I hoped this would be good news, but it seems like it’s just importing data from those sources, not making it available to them. If it sent steps and sleep into Fitbit or Misfit, that’d be really useful for us, but I don’t think it does. Can you confirm which way it goes? I’m not sure if there’d be any value in sending Exist data into S Health if it does only go the other way, though.

That’s very odd.

I’m trying to test it to a new account in strava or fitbit or misfit and so far nothing was sent. Like you said it looks going the wrong direction, but I thought that was already done in the “partner application” section. Why bother to put another extra menu there if it’s the same thing? Hopefully there will be more informations in forums in the upcoming days.

Do update us if you find out anything more :)

I have an Andriod App called “Health Sync” that takes some of the date from S health and syncs with Google fit. It would be great to be able to link directly into Exist! Hope helps.

What is the status of this? Health sync only seems to add work out related things to google fit and sleep doesn’t work.

For me to pay for a subscription, this is a must especially since they now allow third party developers.

[Water / Coffee] Samsung Health / S Health tracks Water and coffee consumption which are extremely relevant for mood tracking !

Hey guys, I’ve noticed a few functions that seem to be pretty much impossible for android atm : Tracking food Tracking caffeine Tracking water

And some that are hard such as Sleep phase tracking.

This is because Google fit is a super shitty aggregator compared to Apple health. It lacks food and sucks at sleep.

Samsung heakth actually tracks all of these super well. This integration would put it android on the same level of utility as iPhone!

Huge vote for this one!

It’s my understanding that the only way this feature is likely to happen is if either:

1. Samsung opens up an actual API for pulling data. All they offer right now is an SDK to pull data directly from the S Health app, and Exist doesn’t work that way.

2. Google or another aggregator that does have a good API gets the data out of Samsung S Health via something like Health Sync.

The only other way I could see this getting implemented is if Exist built the S Health SDK into the Exist app for Android, but that seems highly unlikely in my opinion because of how specific it is–for anyone not using S Health, it would just add bloat.

Google Fit works fine for aggregation of the data types it supports in my experience. And AFAIK there are other tools on Android that can track food and water and integrate with Exist (but I could be wrong). I hope that Google expands their Fit tracking to support more activities and parameters, though.

Has anything new happened since 2020? I track everything through my Galaxy watch!

As mentioned in the description, the best way to do this is still to use Health Sync to send the data to Google Fit, then connect Fit to Exist.

Hi Josh, I use health subs and love it. However we can’t get sleep stages (deep, light, Rem etc) as the only option for those in Exist is Fitbit (. Health Sync can’t sync those from Samsung health to fitbit. Any way we can pull that data from Google Fit instead. It’s the same with most Health and Body

It’s not possible to sync this data from Google Fit right now, but in future this will likely be supported (if possible) via Health Connect instead of Google Fit.