Assuming the Withings app is on the same phone as the HealthKit account, there's no "cloud" involved. This is 100% grift. I hope nobody buys these.

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iAMkenough 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, I got turned off when I realized you can’t sync these devices via Bluetooth or LAN.

Required path is: Scale data -> WiFi -> Internet -> Withings app -> HealthKit

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altairprime 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There’s an HA integration path for the scale to HA but I don’t believe anyone has yet built the HA to HealthKit side of that.

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iAMkenough 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Doesn’t that require using the Withings API (cloud)?

Looks like HA updated their documentation to reflect the $99/yr requirement: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/withings/

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altairprime 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Whoever wrote https://didac.dev/blog/i-made-my-withings-scale-sync-to-home... apparently got it working with Bluetooth LE and an esp32 chip. Sadly, they didn’t share their code yet, and as I lack their social media options I can’t email them requesting they post it. Perhaps they’ll see this comment, or perhaps someone else will repeat the solution and post it this time — but without the HealthKit path, there’s not much gain to be had over just manually typing the weight measured into the Health app.

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iAMkenough 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Looks like the Body+ and WS-30 models have an official “Bluetooth networking mode,” but alas, my model does not.

	▲	altairprime 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		:(

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mikestew 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is that my problem? I figured that WiFi access was enough to hit my phone to update HealthKit, but I never gave the scale access to the Internet ("you can go live over there on the IoT VLAN with the other tattletale devices").

Well, fuck that. Now I'm really, really, really not going to buy a Withings product again.

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iAMkenough 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Mine died after a year, which I suspect is because my spouse used it after showers, and they’re not designed to handle bathroom moisture. Not even rated as water resistant.

Never again.

	▲	sokoloff 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Who the hell designs a consumer scale that can’t work in a typical bathroom? In what room did they possibly imagine their device would be used?

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alistairSH 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Seriously? That’s awful by design. I figured it was BT from scale to phone app.

	▲	c9fc42ad 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It used to work that way but there was an update that forced it to go through their app and you needed to make an account. I had used mine for a couple years until this became a requirement then I just gave it away and went back to my dumb scale and manually entering the value into the Health app