Problems getting Heart Rate from Samsung 5 watch after upgrade to Wear OS 4

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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I too am looking into increasing its polling of data, my wife has a heart condition that id like to get more frequent updates – any idea what sensor on the pixel watch will produce more updates than others?

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The interactive sensor if you check the screen a lot? Other than that you can use the notification command to trigger an update.

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I’m trying your suggestion that you mentioned earlier to the template timer – can you help me understand the syntax?

{{now().minute % 30 == 2 }}
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Time in minutes modulo (reminder of division) by 30, so it’s every 30 minutes.
I chose == 2 instead of 0 just in case many other things happen when last minute digit is 0.

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Thats smart.

Ok so this will be more frequent then. (every 5 mins)

{{now().minute % 5 == 2 }}

this is exactly what i was looking for! thank you!

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I don’t get multiple points. Some days I receive few some days I receive only one (like yesterday). I don’t see the pattern.

Sending command to update sensors every 30 minutes, and it seems to me that not all sensors get updated even when it sends metrics back to HA. I noticed that I did get newer metrics on some other sensors than for heart rate.

I did notice that I am having some difficulties to get app on the watch working when I am at home and connected to my home Wifi. When I disable Wifi on the phone, HA app on watch starts working immediately. I do have valid SSL certificate and expose my HA to internet. Don’t know if this is related to sensors update.

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So it’s not really working for us Samsungers. Thank you for letting me know.

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I found a workaround that has its own problem, but does serve this purpose.
I use MacroDroid (on phone and companion on watch) to start the watch app every 20 minutes. When the app starts, I get a reading.
Just sending an “update sensors” notification to the watch does not get it into the watch app.
While what I found earlier in Wear OS 4 allows HA access to the sensors all the time, it’s useless if HA itself is put to sleep by the watch.
Drawbacks:

  • needs MacroDroid (or similar), which I had, so not too big a problem
  • Multiple instances of HA somehow make it on the watch UI, which is a problem when I get an alarm and I can’t get to it as I have to swipe the HAs away.