Polar mobile SDK and Vantage V

[jessedoescode]

Hi guys. Quick question on whether it's possible to extract real-time heart rate from the Vantage V using the SDK? I'm not 100% sure based on the docs, by testing the SDK I only seem to get data from my H10.

Best, Jesse

[JOikarinen]

@jesselindberg at the moment it is not possible to get data from Vantaga V or from other Polar wrist units using the SDK. Only the sensors supported, i.e. H10, Verity Sense, OH1 and H9

[jessedoescode]

Hi @JOikarinen. I was re-visiting my project related to this question, and wonder if it would be possible to feature request for SDK support for the watches? I would imagine it would have more use cases than the other heart rate monitors, as the watches are more convenient to wear constantly.

And to confirm, is there currently no way to get the heart rate from the Vantage watches somewhat frequently, for instance every 15 minutes?

[JOikarinen]

Hi @jesselindberg,

thanks for the feature request. The SDK support for the watches will be considered in the future. By SDK support, I mean that watches could stream accelerometer, gyroscope and other data what is possible from Polar sensors already.

What comes to the heart rate, here is the update since previous discussion:

The standard BLE heart rate service can be turned on in the latest Polar watches. The instructions how the heart rate service is turned on in the Polar watch, you may check the instructions for Polar Ignite 2. Polar BLE SDK has the BLE heart rate client build in, so you may use Polar BLE SDK to connect and receive the heart rate from Polar watch.

[jessedoescode]

Thanks for the quick reply!

The heart rate service looks nice, but I take it's not available or coming to the first Vantage?