I’ve just successfully (a bit shocked by this considering some of the other threads I have found about how difficult it is) setup the integration for Withings and have a whole slew of entities waiting for me.
However, what I was hoping for from the integration is that there would be info about the devices that’s a part of the Withings app. When you open the Withings app, along the bottom there is a “devices” tab and what I was hoping to get out of mainly is the battery life of my scale and my scanwatch. Since this info is not included in this integration, could someone suggest a different method that would allow me to achieve what I’m looking to do?
Unfortunately, there are no separate devices as part of the integration. Only 34 entities and when I looked through the list, the battery levels were not a part of it.
Data collected from the Scanwatch, such as sleep heart rate, etc show up as entities, but information about the watch itself does not exist.
I think I understand what you mean about the diagnostics card … for example, my zwave integration shows the separate devices and also the associated diagnostic cards too. Problem seems to be that there are no “devices” being brought in by the withings integration. is this normal or is this part of the problem?
Bumping this, has anyone found a way to pull the battery level from a Withings Wireless Scale? I have the same 34 entities as OP (none of which are battery level) and no devices with the integration, so not sure if something can be done in the background to import that data?
Just FYI, the integration began to disconnect and require validation multiple times every day and I’ve since just removed it. I’ve seen other posts about this and sadly, I don’t think the developer is around anymore to work on the integration and hasn’t been for quite some time. Needless to say, I wouldn’t expect new features to be implemented.
On another side note, I’ve also returned the ScanWatch as well. It was very good for a short a while, until a few oddities showed up.
When the batteries were going low, it started to tell the wrong time. All you had to do was go into the app and re-sync, but who would know when you needed to do that? You’d always assume that the clock was telling the correct time … What made it worse was I started noticing the weird times even when the battery was above 50% charge. At this point I just decided enough was enough.
Interesting, I actually use the Sleep Mat which is powered by an outlet (so I guess its a coincidence we have the same entity count). Shame there’s not a better option, Withings has lots of great smart devices for guys wanting to build a personal health dashboard.
I ran into the validation issue with Withings too, AFAIK that was an issue on HA’s end - updating the software fixed it for me (I’m running 2022.4.4 now)
I seem to recall that while I was looking through all those entities, a bunch of them were not applicable to my setup and so they were either disabled or unavailable by default … I think. It’s not installed anymore so I can’t really check, but maybe you could have a look to see if that were the case on your end.
If you have something similar, maybe this integration just installs all the same entities whether they are applicable to your devices or not.
I agree that it’s a shame; Withings has some neat stuff and too bad no one else is picking up after that developer is no longer around in order to continue this integration’s development.
I am also hoping for the scanwatch battery life. I am not having the problems j3tang experienced – the integration for both scale and watch has been stable and it is how I check the history of both, rather than using the app. It would be super handy to include it in my popup list of batteries that need attention because, as J3tang said, Scanwatch gives inadequate warning and because it only needs to be charged about every third week, is hard to remember. I haven’t experienced faulty timekeeping of the watch and have run the battery down to 10%.
