Connect Polar

Before you start

• You need a Polar account and its login, and your watch must sync to Polar Flow.
• Polar doesn’t share past workouts. Training sessions sync from the day you connect. Your recent sleep, recovery and daily activity history still come across.
• Connecting works the same on the web, iPhone and Android: all three use the same Integrations page.

Connect Polar

1. Open the side menu and select Integrations. On the web it opens in a new tab.
2. Find Polar (use Find an app or device or the Activity filter) and select Connect.
3. Read the notice Polar will not send your past workouts, then select Continue to Polar.
4. Sign in to Polar and approve access for Beoflow.
5. You’re returned to Beoflow and the Polar card shows Connected.

What syncs

• Training sessions recorded after you connect, shortly after your watch syncs to Polar Flow.
• Sleep and Nightly Recharge. Polar shares up to the last 28 nights of Nightly Recharge, so that is the most recovery history you’ll see at first.
• Daily activity, with up to 60 days of history after you connect.
• History arrives over the first hours after you connect.

Resync recent data

1. On the Polar card, open the options menu (⋮).
2. Select Resync. Beoflow fetches your last 14 days from Polar again.

You can resync once every few minutes. If you try sooner you’ll see “Just did that. Give it a few minutes before trying again.”

Reconnect Polar

Reconnect when new data has stopped arriving and a resync doesn’t help.

1. On the Polar card, open ⋮ and select Disconnect, then confirm.
2. Select Connect and go through the steps above again.

Disconnect Polar

1. On the Polar card, open ⋮ and select Disconnect.
2. Confirm with Disconnect.

Beoflow stops receiving new data from Polar. Data already imported stays in Beoflow. Polar doesn’t let Beoflow revoke its own access, so you’ll see “Polar removed. It may take a moment to clear on Polar’s side.” To remove Beoflow on Polar’s side as well, do it in your Polar account settings.

Troubleshooting

• My older workouts aren’t there. That’s expected: Polar only shares training sessions recorded after you connect.
• “Couldn’t connect Polar”. The sign-in or approval step didn’t finish. Select Try again, or Back to integrations to start over.
• New data stopped. Sync your watch to Polar Flow and check the session is there. Then open ⋮, select Resync, and give it a few minutes. Still nothing? Reconnect.
• Each workout shows twice. The same session came from Polar and from another source, such as Strava. On the Integrations page, open the Processing preferences tab and put your preferred source first.
• Help on the card. Open ⋮ and select Where is my data? for a short checklist.

FAQ

• How do I connect a device? Open the side menu, select Integrations, pick your device and select Connect, then follow the prompts on the provider’s sign-in page.
• Why can’t Beoflow get my old workouts? Polar’s service doesn’t offer past training sessions to connected apps. This is a limit on Polar’s side.
• Does Beoflow send anything to Polar? No. Beoflow only reads from Polar.

Privacy

• What Beoflow reads: your Polar training sessions, sleep, Nightly Recharge and daily activity. It never writes anything to your Polar account.
• Who can see it: you, and anyone you have given access to your data, such as a coach.
• Removing access: Disconnect in Beoflow stops all new data. Remove Beoflow in your Polar account settings to clear it on Polar’s side too.

Related

• Connect Strava
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