Heartbeat From Apple Watch?!?

[benevida]

I want to give Home Assistant access to my heartbeat as an entity. Full stop. That said, I have received conflicting information on how to configure my Apple Watch 10 and iPhone 16 to make this happen.

I went to the Health app on the phone, and there is no entry for the Home Assistant companion app. Others are listed, but apparently the app has to request access to my health data before the Health app will consider granting it access. In HA, I have access to the ‘step’ counter from my phone, but not the heartrate. How can I get it?

[michaelblight (Michael)]

One option is the Health Auto Export app on iPhone to send the data to HA. I use it, and would recommend limiting the data you send, as it sends everything by default and that takes a long time and struggles in the background. I may have paid a one-off upgrade cost, can’t remember, but it’s low.

[billraff]

I’ve only done a simple Shortcut to pull Steps from my Watch and input into HA. Not sure is this would work for what you are trying to but maybe running as an automation on the iPhone would accomplish it.