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What Humotron reads from your Withings devices

Withings makes scales, sleep mats, watches and blood-pressure monitors. Each adds a different part of your picture, and the scale adds the part no wrist device can: body composition.

By Chinmay Bhatt, Founder, HumotronUpdated 15 October 20262 min read
Best atWeight and the body picture
Humotron readsWeight, sleep, resting heart rate
NeedsA Withings account. No Withings+
01What Withings records

Withings devices record weight and body composition (scales), sleep duration, stages, heart rate and breathing (sleep mats), heart rate, steps and sleep (watches), and blood pressure (monitors).

02What Humotron reads from it

Humotron reads the last six months of daily summaries once, when you connect. It does not read your raw stream, it does not read continuously, and it does not need your name or email to do it.

  • How long you slept, and how wellTotal time asleep and the device’s own measure of sleep quality, night by night. Humotron looks at the pattern across weeks, not any single night.
  • Resting heart rateYour heart rate at rest, compared with your own baseline rather than an average. A rise over several weeks, with no change in training, is one of the patterns Humotron watches for.
  • Overnight heart-rate variabilityThe variation between heartbeats while you sleep. Devices measure it differently, so Humotron only ever compares your readings with your own earlier ones.
  • ActivityHow much you move: steps, workouts or training load, depending on the device. This is what footwear and some habit matches are built on.
  • A Withings scale on its own unlocks the body picture: weight and composition over time. Paired with a wrist device, Humotron can connect what your body is doing with how you sleep and recover.
  • A sleep mat gives overnight data without wearing anything, which is what the supplement and habit matches need.
  • Blood-pressure readings are not used today.
03What that unlocks
HabitsFreeFrom your sleep timing and how much it varies across the week.
MealsFreeFrom your recovery trend: a week of food you can start on Monday.
SupplementsFrom overnight variability and sleep debt. Humotron names the compound, form and dose to look for; you buy from the retailer.
Lab testsWhen the answer is in your blood rather than on your wrist, such as a resting heart rate that rises while everything else holds steady.
TrackersThe next device to add, based on what this one cannot measure.
ConsultsWhen a pattern has not moved for weeks and needs a person rather than a product.
SkincareMatched to the goals you set, not to device data, and always labelled as such.

Every match says which of your measurements should move if it works, and how long to wait, so you can check it on your own tracker. How matching works.

04What it cannot tell us

Where the data cannot answer, Humotron says so rather than guessing. Withings data does not cover:

  • What you ate
  • Blood markers
  • Anything about your skin
  • Activity, unless you also use a Withings watch or another tracker
05How to connect
  1. 1
    Open humotron.com and choose Find my matches.
  2. 2
    Choose Withings and sign in on Withings’s own page. Humotron never sees your password.
  3. 3
    Humotron reads your last six months of daily summaries. This takes about a minute.
  4. 4
    Your matches arrive, each with the reason behind it and which measurement should move if it works.
06Your data
  • Access is read-only. Humotron cannot write to your device or change anything in its app.
  • You can withdraw access at any time, from the device maker’s app or from Humotron, and ask for your data to be deleted.
  • No brand you are matched to receives your health data. They see an order if you place one, and nothing about why.
  • Humotron is a wellness service, not a medical one. It does not diagnose or treat anything.

How Humotron handles your data, in full.

07Questions

I only have the scale. Is that enough?

It unlocks the body picture and what builds on it. For sleep-based matches, add any wrist device or a sleep mat.

Does Humotron read blood pressure?

Not today. If that changes, the connect step will say so and ask.

Is Humotron affiliated with Withings?

No. Withings is a trademark of Withings; Humotron is not affiliated with or endorsed by Withings.