Review on 📈 Mio FUSE Heart Rate and Sleep Tracker with Activity Monitoring by Randall Kelley

Before you buy this portable monitor, there are a few things you should know about this portable monitor. First, it is very comfortable and is made of flexible silicone. It feels soft even when you wear it tight as recommended. Easy to put on, easy to take off. I wear it over my watch and also flip it over with the clasp on my forearm, it's comfortable either way. When activated, he doesn't move, and after acquiring HR he doesn't lose them. I wore it all night and didn't even know it was there. You'd better be patient, this isn't exactly a put on and forget type of gadget. (Update: It gets easier after two days of fiddling) Once it's buckled, you'll need to initialize it to get HR. It's easy to do and he finds HR quickly. You then need to launch the application, and while the application is customizable, it does require some effort. In the app, you can choose whether your gadget's display should be on all the time or only by touch. The next element almost kills this thing for me, it's the lock screen option. Once you've locked the screen, you can't mess around with it, right? Not so. As long as you only use basic functions without HR, you can lock the screen and the next tap will only show the last used function. It will take some time for this to work after you install it in the app. EXTREMELY frustrating to get this to work properly. BUT. Even if you get it working in daily mode, the screen unlocks as soon as you initialize HR. A huge problem, because the touch points are so sensitive that even drops of water can change the function of the screen. Worse, it's all too easy to pause a workout without realizing it. And if you pause a workout, don't record anything. Which brings me to the next question. The Mio Go app only shows your actual heart rate as a number when connected and nothing else until you stop the timer after your workout and allow the monitor to sync with the app. Only then can you see some details of your workout. At best, an unfinished workforce plan. You can't zoom in and there's not a lot of other detail in the workout. crap app. Thankfully, unlike the Fitbit Charge HR, the Mio Fuse works with a whole host of other third-party apps. Wahoo is very good, but Sportstracker is even better. Awesome app with a dashboard that shows everything like your current HR %, average heart rate for your training and your maximum range on one screen, perfect for stationary training. It also has a nice detailed HR chart and voice notifications when you set it up. He tells you what you do. MIO works over Bluetooth (BLE) or ANT+. Both of the above apps work better with ANT+, BLE will drop more often. I only use the Mio app to adjust screen settings, nothing else. Third party apps are better and do NOT require the training feature to be active, just initialize HR. To better understand how this works, third-party apps record real-time data on your smartphone, while Mio Fuse records an internal workout when you switch to workout mode and then sends it to the Mio Go app. You must finish your workout before it can sync to the Mio app. All in all, this is a good monitor if you understand its limitations. Not a fancy OLED screen, just a dated but effective dot matrix reader. Ideal for real workouts with third party apps. You can wear it all day if you want to count steps etc, but it really shines when you're exercising with other apps, especially Sportstracker. It doesn't have a sleep tracking feature like the Fitbit Charge HR, but after seeing how it works I don't think it's particularly useful anyway. The screen lock feature is confusing and only works in basic day mode. My biggest complaint is that the lock screen unlocks once HR is initialized. Personally, I don't care about steps/stairs/calories/distance, so I can't verify those features. Battery life seems adequate, you can fiddle with it all day and it won't work. PROS: Convenient Good heart rate monitor Good battery life Great free 3rd party apps available Fast charging thanks to easy magnetic connection Waterproof CONS: Learning curve with lots of frustrating graphics. And a screenshot of the Mio Go after training. Cannot switch to landscape mode or zoom in. If Fuse disconnects from the Mio Go app for any reason during a workout, it will not automatically reconnect. At least not for me. Again, other apps are better as they reconnect on their own. If I wanted to reconnect to the Mio, I had to stop training and reinitialize HR so the Mio app could find Fuse. Update: I've learned not to even use the Mio app except to manage device settings once. over time. I use the Sportstracker app exclusively (Android only, sorry IOS) and it works great. To swim in a 25 meter pool, I put on my Mio, let it measure my heart rate, turn on the Sportstracker control panel and go for a swim. I can see the dashboard by sticking my phone in the plastic wall in my alley. You don't have to touch anything, it's easy. It doesn't lose touch and now I'm even more impressed.