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Dont know if this will open a can of worms -

 

1)I do all my activity with Apple Watch and it's pretty good for reading my HR and effort. My latest fave sport is off road e-mountain biking - I have a Bosch engined bike which displays my HR on my apple watch via the Bosch FLOW app, and at the end of the exercise automatically uploads my data to Strava including power, cadence speed etc but no HR which is fair enough as FLOW has saved this to apple health.

 

  1. At the same time Apple health will record an activity which it automatically recognizes as an e-bike activity and records all my parameters INCLUDING HR. I think it is triggered to do this by the flow app sending my HR data to my watch.

 

When I then look at the Strava workout, it has automatically recorded my ride, but hasn't uploaded the HR data DESPITE having permission to do so in my Strava iPhone and watch settings. I try the old trick of logging out of strava and back in on my iPhone and it prompts me to import the same workout from Apple Health which DOES have my heart data in it, but again Strava hasn't transferred it over from apple health.

 

In my apple activities it has recorded the data twice, with about a minutes different (probably delay in either the flow or strava app closing) but when it comes to strava is has only recorded the activity once, despite the automatic upload from FLOW and the manual upload from Apple Health.

 

My questions:

Is there a simpler way to get this recognised by Strava as one activity?

Why do I often have to log out and back in to get Strava to recognize an apple activity?

Is there a way to “attach” the HR data onto the strava analysis - its all there in Apple health.

 

Cheersin advance

 

 

Hey ​@hipponax1973,

The Apple Health integration built into the Strava iPhone app supports the importing of activities recorded with the Workout app on your Apple Watch. This integration has not been built to import activities which were recorded using a 3rd party app. Meaning although the Flow app passed the Heart Rate data into Apple Health, Strava isn’t able to pick up that heart rate data because it wasn’t originally recorded in Apple Health.

You can learn more about this integration in the following article: Health App and Strava

 

To work around this, I would check if the Flow app supports the exporting of your activities as FIT, TCX, or GPX files. If so, you will have the option to manually upload these activities to your Strava account using our activity upload tool: https://www.strava.com/upload/select

 

 

 

 

really useful thanks - I might just get my watch to contact strava direct during rides then - ive dropped Bosch an email to see if this can be introduced but well see

I’ve long wanted Strava to be able to merge multiple data sources; I have a similar issue with Spin cycling.  
I have heard of an external method via GOTOES (a web site) but I haven’t tried it personally.  
 

Thus may help you. 

So dontknoow if im dong something else wrong - I set my watch to record my bike ride today via strava app on the watch - its still not uploaded the HR - I then for the second time two days had to give permission for strava to read the HR on the watch - still no dice -strava seems to want to default to the Flow app all the time. 💁🏽

Puzzling, from you say I think Strava should show two activities per ride. Flow and Apple. 
Have you tried setting your Apple Watch as a Strava data source and then record your ride as an Apple workout and it go to Strava from there?

Otherwise the big solution to consider is something like A Garmin with heart strap monitor for you and cadence sensor in the bike.  Garmin syncs perfectly with Strava and gives its own analysis too  

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