No cost to you, easy as pie! At $150, it costs the same as the top two scales in our ranking, the QardioBase and the Withings WS-50. I feel that they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Im sure someone weighed the bones of a dead person and there is an acceptable range out there. I assume the Apple app is taking the data from Garmin. I like to exercise and track my progress, but I am by no means a hard core trainer/athlete. The article also raises another question. There’s no way. My fenix displays my weight Setting in “User Profile”, which i typed in at the beginning of my fenix use. She writes the Get Organized column, with tips on how to lead a better digital life. It really seems like garmin are making a lot of rubbish by pushing product to market way too early…. Obviously that isn’t what is happening. But the scale says it requires a smartphone to configure…as does pretty much every other smart scale out there. I would like to support DCR and enjoy ad-free DC Rainmaker ($20 per year). So yesterday I did three weights within 4 minutes. The new scale is syncing to Garmin fine. People just base everything on a single number, without utilizing critical thought. For now the ANT+ advice from Garmin would indicate that they are grabbing at straws. When it’s done – it’ll give you a little checkbox, and then shortly afterwards turn off. I believe that the new ISP modem is blocking the port that the scale uses to connect to the internet. the Index or the Portal ist not passing the accutal weight to my watch. Read about an update at the Garmin forum. 2. I now have no idea which figure is the accurate one (if any) and frankly am now looking at returning these to replace them with another brand to see if that is any better, unless anyone can suggest a fix for the erratic behaviour? I am sending my scale back and getting a Withings Scale instead. You’ll notice there’s a  ‘User Settings’ option under the devices menu. Until Garmin understands the people most people work and therefore are not available to sit on hold M-F during a working day I will always give Garmin’s help line the lowest rating. Could she use the scale to check her weight without having an account? So I can give to my local Garmin people? Did they ever fix the issue of being able to record more than one reading in a day? Garmin Index is Wi-Fi connected, allowing you to wirelessly sync your data to Garmin Connect. At the moment, I wouldn’t recommend buying this product until we can see this issue being resolved. Could you tell me if there is anything wrong with my scale? Yes, I’m already a Garmin customer and use Garmin Connect, but they’re discouraging me from buying more of their hardware (i.e. The sync is still broken, a lot of people complaining about body fat stuck to 7%, the last firmware is over a year old. Any recommendation for a scale with a reliable means of transferring this data? However, I did have troubles earlier on. Also I believe it is still misleading that for Garmin or this site to say that it works with myfitnesspal. Have you tried contacting support though? Yesterday i swapped out the dead batteries and the display said 3.10 so it is getting the updates. So for someone that just wants a ‘easy button’ solution, this does fit. Many other scales send those readings to the app but don't show them on the display, and I like that the Garmin scale does. So I am the only one that uses it. Once invited, they’ll show up in your list of users: Then, over on the account that you invited, you’ll go ahead and accept the invitation and specify your height/gender/etc (likely already there from your Garmin Connect settings). My point is more general, and has nothing to do with this product: If you have a problem, just try basic troubleshooting. My brother out in nyc who is very tech savvy hasnt either been able to sync data. I for one am very dissapointed and if this problem is not fixed soon, I will return the scale and start my Aria back up…. Very clever. this scale) by locking it down to their own platform that’s not making them any money. Really feel let down by garmin with this product. The Garmin Index can also sync to a computer using an ANT+ stick, but you have to supply your own. get a real scale. Any chance of turning off the update available bug in connect? On my second set now and they have never got passed the set up. Found this review useful? the Fitbit one is called “Aria”. I use both the index scale and myfitnesspal and can tell you for certain that garmin has sent them my weight intermitently for a total of 15 separate days since I got my scale on Jan 12. Hi, Just wanted to let you know, that the connect app, will in fact show the weight form the smart scale, as a “snapshot” and not just buried way down in the menus. In this case, the smart scale market has basically been the preserve of Withings and Fitbit for the last few years. Shame on Garmin! Showcases patterns in your weight, allowing you to track how your body changes throughout the day – on the scale and in the Garmin Connect app. I have the same issue. The device measures the electrical signal after it passes through your body to estimate aspects of your body composition”. It was stuck like most people. Except, this one is lime green. Day8 68,9 9,7 43,2 30,1, As you can see, difference between min and max weight is 2,1kg in 4 days, mostly (2kg) in FAT! I don’t do enough multiple weigh ins (maybe 3 or 4 times a year just to see a difference after a run) for this to be much of an issue, just wondering if this could be a solution. As for other WiFi devices that don’t work – absolutely I do. I’ve watched it happen multiple times. I believe that needs to be clear for buyers of the scale; your data will not transfer. The scale even flashed my initials on the screen. shouldn’t they just sell stuff that works? So in efforts to combat the amount of emails I need to sort through on a daily basis, I’ve complied this “My Photography Gear” post for your curious minds! Garmin Connect shows that S/W 3.00 is available, but the scale is completely unwilling Wow! Looking at link to forums.garmin.com is quite scary!! I too worry about forgetting to switch users, so that is another thing that makes me want to wait and see if Garmin will add the ability to have multiple data points before I jump into the wifi scale game which is hard since the new toy pull is hard to resist. Other scales at gyms I used are able to report a BF% under 7. How does it determine an estimated value of these numbers? The lack of data syncing to Training Peaks is a killer for me. So what are people doing to get around this? The work around is to get the ANT+ device and leave it plugged into your computer. as Ray describe in his other post “A Weighty Decision: Deciding on a WiFi Weight Scale”(link to dcrainmaker.com) it only syncs weight via the workaround withings -> fitnesspal -> garmin, the previous post is also a good reado for the whole topic! We got the scale yesterday. Garmin Index is Wi-Fi connected, allowing you to wirelessly sync your data to our free Garmin Connect online fitness community. Definitely see where both of you are coming from. Meaning, putting a device in the bathroom and weighing it isn’t hard or complex engineering. I got an Index Scale about a month ago. It used to be that I pretty much just set the same weight across all my devices, and I’d fluctuate +/- 2-3 pounds within that weight depending on the workouts I did. I don’t think there’s a microphone in it, but why does it react? To simply send the weight .FIT file to 3rd parties along with the activity .FIT files is trivial. I’m just heavily invested in the Garmin ecosystem and wanted to make it all nice and homogenous. I've been using the Garmin Connect app for about two years with a variety of devices. Just look at how many running watches they have out at the moment, its nigh on impossible to know which to chose. The scale was a mess for me… had to kick it to turn on (50% of the time it wouldn’t turn on if you just stood on it first), setup was a mess (albeit this was early in the launch), the BF% was nearly 7+% lower than displayed for me on competing wifi scales (Aria etc.) The error is intermittent. I asked garmin support for an explanation as to why, if discontinued, the product was still for sale on the garmin website. Today I impersonated my wife on the scale – despite the fact it should be reading *my* body fat it reported her figure.