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Polar H10 basically works like that. It's great until you are suddenly unable to connect to it via bluetooth, and have to blindly debug the reason. Is the device even on? Battery low? Broken? App issues? Who the fuck knows.


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pedalpete01/22/2025

Yeah, you hit on a very important point. There are ways to handle this via lighting on the device (as far as, connected, battery, etc), and I think the app being clear about the state, beyond just "connected/not connected" is important.

We've had very few issues with BLE, but it is one of the things I'm most worried about as it absolutely kills the experience.