BodyBattery merging support over multiple devices
via @JW, thank you
Garmin’s Body Battery feature tracks energy levels by analyzing heart rate variability, stress, and activity data, giving users a score from 0 to 100 to indicate when they’re energized or need rest.
Multi-Device Syncing Challenges
Body Battery is currently incompatible with Physio Tue Up
With Garmin’s expanded device range, a small group of Garmin’s best customers own multiple watches and switch between devices, like from a Garmin Venu to a Fenix.
As of today (9 Nov 2024), Body Battery scores do not sync, so each device showed different values due to independent calculations. That will change soon for devices compatible with an extension to Physio True UP.
Merged Body Battery Data
Garmin will soon merge Body Battery data across compatible devices through Garmin Connect. Your primary device‘s data takes priority, but secondary device data will also contribute to the merged score visible in Garmin Connect, ensuring a consistent Body Battery score across devices.
When?
The feature is in late-stage internal beta.
I don’t know the exact dates, but expect to see this ‘soon’ – meaning in 2024.
Thoughts
I’m doubtful of the scientific correctness of Body Battery and suspect that it simply amounts to a pretty graph for most of the day. That said, like many of you, I have that good old pretty graph on some of my watches, and my partner and I often try to outcompete each other to see who is the most stressed. I switch between Garmin watches during the day, so I will use this new feature when available.
Out of interest for those of you with an Apple Watch, I’ve recently started using the Bevel app and its Body Battery complication. It’s a nice little graph, shown below, that annotates an HRV chart with sleep and activity events, similar to Garmin’s, although Garmin presents Boddy Battery particularly well, IMHO.
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Finally! Have been waiting for this for years!
Looking forward to this feature! I have always been wondering why it wouldn’t sync!
yeah, i don’t know exactly why it wasn’t able to work in physio Trueup before. i do NOT think it was arbitrary for garmin to exclude it. perhaps syncing the hrv data was trickier?
I own two Garmin watches and I’ve learned not to pay any attention to body battery anyway. To be honest I’m ignoring most of the “health” metrics these days, other than for amusement.
yep.
the pretty ones are more amusing tho. 🙂
I have found it to be accurate from a qualitative standpoint. If I feel sluggish because normally I look at my watch and my body battery is in the low range compared to a normal range. I don’t think a specific number tells me anything. My body battery goes up more when I have a good night sleep, down a lot when I have a hard workout, etc. So I think the metric tracks pretty well. But my watch says 67 right now. 67, is pretty meaningless when trying to compare it to 70 or something. But when looking at it from a qualitative point, when I am fully rested I am in the 90s, I worked out for about an 1.5 hours yesterday and had ok sleep. I could have guessed I would be in the “meh” range, meaning I am not 100% but not exhausted either. In the 70% range feels about right.
I wonder why they are implementing this now?
I’d love to see a Vivosmart 6/Whoop equivalent that would allow me to wear a “traditional” watch without losing any data. Current Vivosmart 5 doesn’t have HRV (I don’t think?) so that is due an update
long overdue
Garmin doesn’t seem interested in the sceario you and many others outline. #shrug