ECHO for Pc

We purchased a treadmill in January of 2021 that has BLE heart rate monitor capabilities. After doing some research, I ran across a number of positive reviews for the this app app. When I first got the app, the brand of treadmill that we bought wasn’t listed in the available manufacturer list but I tried each one just to see if any may end up working. Sure enough, one of them worked and I emailed the this app team to share what I found to work. Figured it would benefit other users. Within a week, the app was updated and the brand of my treadmill was listed and worked perfectly. I’m not naïve enough to think that my email was what added my brand to the list but it just showed that they had already been working on updating the app. They even reached out to me a while after just to see if things were still working right. They certainly have. I have a series 6 watch, non-cellular, and an iPhone 11 Pro Max. Everything has worked flawlessly for about three months now. I definitely recommend the this app app if you have a BLE capable treadmill.

I installed this on Wednesday so that I could get my heart rate up onto my new Echelon X5s stationary bike from my iwatch. I used it two days but didn’t work great and kept dropping my heart rate from the bike screen, so I uninstalled the next day on Thursday. A few minutes later I saw that all my red circle from Wednesday & Thursday were gone!!!! I had enough time to still close it on Thursday by doing more exercises but Wednesday was gone and it ended my 1295 day streak (3 1/2 years) even thought it still shows my two exercises on Wednesday which add up to more than enough to close the red ring and it still shows the longest streak badge I earned that day, but the red is gone and on Thursday it said my streak is 1 day and today after I closed my red circle it says my streak is 2 day, so don’t use this app if you have a long streak and that matters to you because I used that 3 1/2 year many many time to keep exercising every day to keep the steak going and now this company has stolen that from me!!! Yes I have talked with apple technology, got a ticket and they called me and I told them what happened and they could only say sorry nothing we can do.

After going through at least 5 Peloton Heart Rate Monitors, I was in search of an app that would allow me to use my watch as my heart rate monitor while seamlessly integrating and communicating with my peloton machine. This app does exactly that!! Anyone that owns a Peloton know their HRMs are garbage and expensive to replace. Even when they are working, they don’t report data correct and can swing vastly from a very low BPM to very high for no reason at all. With this app, you can ditch the Peloton HRM and instead use your watch (I have Apple Watch 4) and it works perfectly!! The FAQ section was critical foe installation as it required me to clear the cache and do a couple other things which then allowed foe seamless connectivity and data reporting. Those additional steps took all of 2 minutes... be sure to follow both of the steps if you have connection issues.

If you're thinking of using this app to use your Apple Watch as a heart rate monitor for your Peloton, just do it... it's simple to setup, works intuitively and it's free for 20 minute sessions. I upgraded the app to Pro just because I was so happy to find an app that actually works well and wanted to support the developer, but the free version was working fine for tracking my HR during 10 minutes bike weights classes and cool-down stretches. This is particularly great now that Peloton has a Strive Score using time in different HR zones; it's nice being able to track the Strive Score everywhere instead of just the bike rides. I never noticed a nag message in the app to upgrade, there's just a skinny button on the screen that says "upgrade to Pro." (In fact I didn't notice it said that until I tried to figure out how to give the developer my money and couldn't figure out how to do it for a while. 😂) I don't know why using your Apple Watch as an HR monitor on the Peloton isn't supported natively (other than the great GymKit integration for bike rides) but this app solves the issue. The app looks great too, showing your HR in big numbers on your phone and watch, though I just use the HR display on the Peloton screen.