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Blood Pressure measurement

Open RulentWave opened this issue 6 years ago • 6 comments

Given the different physiological measurements the app can track, it would make sense to include blood pressure. I think a blood pressure tracker would fit in with the app well and it would be nice to be able to track my blood pressure with the same app I track my weight.

RulentWave avatar Apr 04 '19 01:04 RulentWave

do you mean by adding it manually or to support Bluetooth blood pressure? Then we have two new measurements (Systolic (mmHg) and Diastolic (mmHg)) maybe three if we include the heart rate!?

oliexdev avatar Apr 22 '19 12:04 oliexdev

Entering it manually would be a good start. I am not aware that there even are Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure cuffs.

A compromise might be to allow users to create custom measurements. This way you do not have to support as much when it comes to calculation or specialized functions, but you can still allow for some special use cases

LivInTheLookingGlass avatar Apr 27 '19 05:04 LivInTheLookingGlass

yeah some blood pressure devices supports Bluetooth e.g. Omrom devices.

creating custom measurements is not easy to implement. You could use the comment field to add some information for special use cases.

oliexdev avatar Apr 29 '19 15:04 oliexdev

That is not very satisfying though. The comment field cannot be graphed, and if you want to do any analysis on it it would require parsing.

That is what I am doing in the meantime, but it would be very nice to support it as a measurement. Given the number of optional measurements already, I dont think there is any crisis in adding a few more, especially since I cannot think of any other reasonable measurements this app is missing.

LivInTheLookingGlass avatar Apr 29 '19 19:04 LivInTheLookingGlass

I would also like to request you, to add such a feature.

The Omron (i.e. M700) devices are using BLE / GATT profiles. And their app is a big pile of crap - like most of these "connected measurement" devices

creating custom measurements is not easy to implement.

Whats the issue here? Arn't you using an sqlite DB for your app to store the data? Why not "simply" add a drop down, to select which kind of measurement you are about to do - and store that data inside a new table for the selected device?

Well, I'm also not a developer. So I've got no idea about, of how much of a hassle this would be.

Killom avatar Jul 10 '19 10:07 Killom

do you mean by adding it manually or to support Bluetooth blood pressure? Then we have two new measurements (Systolic (mmHg) and Diastolic (mmHg)) maybe three if we include the heart rate!?

Yes, please!

Systolic (mmHg) Diastolic (mmHg) Heart Rate

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These measures, dumped conveniently into the OpenScale Pro db....with corresponding time and weight.. VERY useful!! All the other apps seem to suck...and none of them are interested in playing ball on the same court :-)

FTL1 avatar Mar 12 '20 16:03 FTL1