Polar reintegration overdue?
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Fellow MapMy members, how many of you are avid Polar device users? How many of you have been patiently waiting for MapMy to integrate with the Flow API?
Over the years, I have reached out to support regarding this and have been told time and again that it was coming ... that it was under development ... to please be patient.
Polar announced that it was making the Polar Personal Trainer platform and API obsolete years ago when they brought the Flow platform online. They announced that the service would be disabled in 2018 ... and extended the lights off date through 2019 ... and MapMy posts about it with an underlying tone that it was a surprise.
I have been waiting for MapMy to embrace the Flow API since Polar announce the feature-rich Flow service years ago. Now I no longer have direct Polar connectivity in MapMy ... and going through either Endomondo or MyFitnessPal doesn't provide the same level of detail with my existing MapMy data.
How are you fellow Polar aficionados working around the disruption of Polar syncing capability to MapMy?
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Official comment
Thanks for the feedback, David! We are working to build out a new integration with Polar Flow, but do not have a timeline for when this work will be completed.
We will update this post with any developments that come!
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Been a Polar user for 10 years. When it stopped working I waited impatiently for mapmyrun to get it reintegrated, apparently polar doesn't have a bit enough customer base for mapmyrun to bother. Almost didn't sign back up this year, but figured I'd give them another few months before I move on to a different app that supports my monitor.
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Hi there, I'm very interested in this topic as I'm a Polar user as well. over the last years I use the Endomondo app (paid version) which I liked a lot. As yo might know Endomondo was purchased by UA a while ago and this week it was announced that UA will stop all Endomondo activities by the end of this year! they promise a easy step over to MapMyRun but now I'm looking at it the most important feature for me is not working any more, the integration of my Polar watch. I'm not sure if I'm correct but is looks like both Polar and Endomondo are more common in Europe as they are in the US, that might be the reason why UA was not yet focused on this integration, however with shutting down Endomondo they have to hurry up with the Polar flow integration because otherwise I think they will loose a lot of the current Endomondo users.
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