Huawei Health app syncing
Hi Cronometer team,
Thanks for adding Samsung Health to the list of syncing fit apps to help tracking. I'm currently using a Huawei watch and their Health app. Unfortuantly, this means I need to sync my watch to the Health app, then to Google Fit, then to Cronometer.
I'm often finding inaccuracies in burned calories due to all the different applications. Given Huawei will likely not let the watch sync directly to other apps, will there/can we get integration for the Huawei Health app.
Thank you!
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I really would like to know that also.
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I don't think this will happen anytime soon. You can sync your data using Health Sync application, but this functionality can't be supported by Cronometer directly.
Supporting Huawei watches requires Cronometer to cooperate with Huawei team which isn't going to happen as Cronometer is a US based company and Huawei is banned in the US because. As a result, Huawei can't interact with Google Services on Android, Huawei Health has to be sideloaded, and so the watches are essentially completely isolated from the rest of the Google ecosystem.
If Cronometer devs were to work with Huawei to add watch support, they'd be blacklisted the same way - so the reason why this can't work is politics, money and market domination. Cronometer has to ignore these devices to avoid being penalized because US wants to be the one who gets to collect all private personal information and anyone who doesn't comply is bullied out of the western market.
As for privacy, it's the same thing on both sides - both Google and Huawei collect the same kinds of data and do so very obtrusively. All apps that use Google Services implicitly send Google all user data that goes through that channel (and same for Huawei). The problem is literally just that Google is US based and cooperates with US government while Huawei is based in China and cooperates with theirs - to the same extent. It's banned because Huawei doesn't want to disclose all that data to US the way Google does, which would be a national security threat to China the same way Huawei is to US.
There's only one way this stalemate can be resolved, and it's by some free and open standard being implemented by all watches. But that would allow users to avoid GSM/Huawei and would cut into their profits so it's not going to happen.
