Setting up & using Withings BPM Connect with multiple users: not simple
Getting the device set up is easy enough. You’ll set up or log into your Withings Health Mate App account and pair the app to your your Blood Pressure Cuff. With that done, you’ll be able to take a reading.
Press the power button once to turn the Withings BPM Connect on and another press on the same button will start the reading, inflating the cuff tightly around your arm and taking your blood pressure and heart rate measurements. Taking your heart rate, systolic, and diastolic blood pressure will take only about 30 seconds.
You may think you can seamless swap between users, but unfortunately, it’s not that easy. Each reading taken will be attributed to the last person who used the cuff, with no way to change that info once it’s registered, and there’s no way I can see to move it from one person’s profile to the next, if you forget to change users in the app before you take a reading, you’re stuck with someone else’s readings, messing up your health report and trends. (You can enter readings manually by typing them out, but you need to use the web version of the Health mate app, a kind of tedious option.)
And oddly, you can’t seem to select a different user in the app, and have the readings go to that person: you need to do this on the device, so here’s how:
- As soon as the results populate on the armband, click the button once and the first user’s name will pop up.
- Hold the button down until the next name pops up. Use the longer button-hold to toggle through users.
- Once you toggle to the correct user, click the button again and a check mark will appear to confirm the selected user.
You should then see the results under the selected user in the app.
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