TLDR: Looking for insight in getting daily HR data from Polar Flow to Intervals.icu as it doesn’t appear to be working for me.
I started using a new Polar watch this last week (Tuesday 8.8.23) primarily as a daily fitness tracker as well as for sleep. I am not using it to record activities. It would appear Intervals has been able to sync the sleep time and sleep score, however heart rate data—HRV (morning orthostatic test) and resting HR—has not synced with intervals. Has something changed on their API that can be updated here or am I out of luck in this case?
There may be the possibility that I’m just being impatient and it hasn’t synced as I haven’t had the device for a week.
Unfortunately I now know that Polar doesn’t share their continuous HR tracking with say Apple Health so I would not be surprised if something similar turns out to also be the case here, in which case I’ll be returning the watch. I am not planning on manually entering data and I don’t have the skill to make my own script.
Especially since previously using a Garmin device that just works.
I had a look at the Polar API docs and didn’t find any mention of that morning HRV test data. It doesn’t look like it comes through as an exercise either.
Intervals.icu does process the nightly recharge stuff and uses that for resting HR:
Alright thank you for the double check. With a new device I guess it takes time to figure out what’s what. Although it is a bit silly that polar doesn’t send that particular data. I’ve sent a message to Polar support to find out if there is a way to have that data exported and may update here if it turns out there is a way.
Hey there, Polar support returned my email stating that there was no way to export their morning (orthostatic) test results out of the Polar Flow platform. The HRV measurements taken using the Nightly Recharge recovery setting should import into intervals.icu if you are importing wellness data.