Polar H9 Heart Rate Sensor – ANT + / Bluetooth
Polar H9 Heart Rate Sensor – ANT + / Bluetooth – Waterproof HR Monitor with Soft Chest Strap for Gym, Cycling, Running, Outdoor Sports, Black
Non-Slip Silicone SpotsThese keep the sensor gripped to your chest at all times so it can measure your heart rate optimally.
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I have an old HR watch & brought this hoping it would match up and it does – perfectly. Very happy. One day I will probably work out how to use it with a smart phone! For now, everything is simple & easy
very happy with this product overall, although only slight criticism is that occasionally (only x1 per month) have connection issues with the polar app – can resolve this by taking out the battery and reinserting after 30 minutes or so.
Does exactly what it says on the tin. Not sure it counts burned calories correct but makes me work harder when wearing it anyway. Great that you can leave your phone and download results after. It slips off a bit doing martial arts but no complaints
Purchased this as my old chest sensor was struggling and I was getting fed up of it and I wanted an arms heartbeat sensor instead and Polar are a reputable name in the health tracking industry.
Primarily I wanted one to use with the DDP Yoga app on my iPad.
Preferably I wanted one that would connect to the apple health app on my phone at the same time to record the workout and this seemed to tick both those boxes.
Yes, I’m in the Apple ecosystem and Apple health isn’t on the iPad.
Now, as I hadn’t seen this heartbeat sensor recommended in any of the DDP Yoga groups or on their website I was a bit dubious as to whether this would connect ok.
But worry over it connects fine.
BUT……….
Not to the 2 devices as claimed by polar at the start!
The only way I could get the info into apple health was to set the verity to the track workout and connect it to the iPad and then when finished, turn it off and on again connecting it to the polar flow app on my phone where it uploaded the tracked workout.
What a ball ache and defeats why I purchased this device and I was considering sending the device back as not working as described (I wonder how many have done that already??)
So, I contacted polar and they replied with giving me the standard info spiel which is in the sales information.
I had to delve into the inter-web some to try and find the answer I was looking for to get this thing working as claimed as I don’t like giving up too easily.
So, this is the solution:
1- Fire up the polar flow app on your phone.
2- Turn on your verity sense and let it connect.
3- When the verity sense has connected you can open another menu by tapping the ‘cog’ wheel. Here you can set up/turn on the dual connectivity.
4- Fire up the app of your choice on your iPad (in my case DDP Yoga)
5- Connect and voila! 2 devices connected at the same time 🙂
Rinse and repeat each time you need to use.
Polar, if you included this simple procedure in your instructions it would make life a lot easier because not everyone is ‘tech savvy’ and for the cost of the device compared to others, a couple of extra lines of print in the instructions isn’t that much effort? Or even an instruction in the polar flow app?
4 stars overall as the dual connectivity information is lacking.
5 stars for accuracy as it seems pretty accurate.
4 stars for the mobile app as thats a bit of a work it out for yourself job.
5 stars for working out as its good and comfy on the forearm.
Decent battery life too and its rechargeable.