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Realtime heartbeats #431

Open j-r-b opened 5 months ago

j-r-b commented 5 months ago

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Description:

For an upcoming research project, we would like to create an application that reacts to each individual heartbeat immediately as it occurs. That is, we would like to not only work with the latest RR intervals (which are sent in regular intervals via Bluetooth), but get an event/receive a notification as soon as the sensor detects a beat, with as little delay as possible (e.g., in order to play a heartbeat sound for each incoming beat that is more or less in sync with the user's actual heartbeats).

Is this something the might be achieved with the SDK, or is this inherently impossible due to the connection being Bluetooth-based?

To our knowledge, the H10 also supports the GymLink protocol (5.0-5.3 KHz transmission). If we understand correctly, this simply outputs a burst at ~5.3 KHz whenever a heartbeat is detected. However, so far we could not find any suitable receiver that might pick up such a signal and make it available to an Android-based app.

Any ideas or suggestions are highly welcome. Thank you very much in advance!