Using SimpleEye Bluetooth Weight Scale
Thank you for using SimpleEye Bluetooth Weight Scale, the quick and easy way to get weight scale data from your compatible Bluetooth-enabled weight scale. Help information can be viewed at any time by clicking on the Help button on the bottom of the application.
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Table of Contents:

Compatibility

SimpleEye Bluetooth Weight Scale is currently compatible with the following Bluetooth weight scales:

Android Device Compatibility: SimpleEye Bluetooth Weight Scale has been tested and verified with Android 2.0 (Motorola® Droid on Verizon®), 2.1 (LG® Ally on Verizon® and T-Mobile® myTouch 3G Slide running HTC® SenseUI) and 2.2 (Google® Nexus One on T-Mobile®). Some minor issues that should not prevent measurements from being taken have been observed with Android 2.1 devices running the HTC® Sense UI: the Bluetooth implementations on these devices have unresolved errors.

Setting up the connection between your weight scale and your mobile device.

When the application is first started, it will check if this is the very first time the application has started or if the application has been updated since it was last started: if either of these is true, it will display a list of changes as shown in Figure 1 below.

Figure 1: application changes and new features

If this is the first time the application is started, the help screen will show as in Figure 2 below.

Figure 2: initial Help screen display

Tap the OK button to close the help screen: you can tap the Help button at any time to access this screen.

The application will then check to see if Bluetooth is enabled. If not, it will request that Bluetooth be turned on, as shown in Figure 3 below. Bluetooth must be activated to use the Bluetooth features of the software.

Figure 3: Bluetooth activation request

Tap Yes to approve the request: Bluetooth will turn on as shown in Figure 4 below.

Figure 4: Bluetooth successfully activating

The main application window is shown in Figure 5 below. Tap the Menu button to show the application menu as seen in Figure 5 below. You can also view the Help file at any time by clicking the Help button.

Figure 5: main application


Tanita® HD-351BT:

  • Press the OUTPUT key to turn on the scale, as noted by a single beep. See page 3 of the HD-351BT manual for more details.

Tanita® BC-590BT:

  • If using a personal key, ensure that the scale has been appropriately configured (see page 4 of the BC-590BT manual for more details on programming the scale with your personal information) and then press the appropriate personal key to turn on the scale, as noted by 3 beeps. See page 5 of the BC-590BT manual for more details.
  • If using the Guest mode, press the Guest key to turn on the scale, as noted by 3 beeps. See page 7 of the BC-590BT manual for more details.

Once the scale is ready, tap the Select button and then tap the Find entry as shown in Figure 6 below.

Figure 6: finding the weight scale

The Android Bluetooth settings screen will open up and a scan will be performed: the phone should now find the weight scale as shown in Figure 7 below. The caption on the item will show Pair with this device to indicate that the scale is not paired.

Figure 7: locating the weight scale

Tap the scale item to start the pairing process: a pairing key dialog will be shown as in Figure 8 below. Enter the proper pairing code (for the supported Tanita scales that code is 0000).

Figure 8: pairing code input

Tap OK: the pairing process will complete and the weight scale item will change its caption to “Paired but not connected” to indicate that the pairing process is complete as shown in Figure 9 below.

Figure 9: pairing completed

You’re now ready to go! If using the Tanita® BC-590BT in Guest mode you will need to complete the setup of the scale as described on page 7 of the BC-590BT manual.

Collecting measurements from your weight scale.

Press the Back button to return to the application: it will automatically detect that a new weight scale has been added and will prompt you to add it to the list of saved scales as shown in Figure 10 below.

Figure 10: prompt to save the weight scale

Tap Yes to accept it: you will then be prompted to set this scale as your default weight scale (if an existing scale is saved), as shown in Figure 11 below. Tap Yes to do so.

Figure 11: prompt to choose selected scale as the default weight scale

If the scale supports automatic connections you will be prompted to turn on automatic connections as shown in Figure 12 below.

Figure 12: prompt to allow automatic connections to the active Bluetooth weight scale

You will then be asked if you wish to connect to the weight scale right now as shown in Figure 13 below. Also, if you enabled automatic connections then a notification will appear.

Figure 13: connection dialog and automatic connection notice

If your scale is not currently on, turn it on now (as discussed here) and once the scale is ready (as indicated by one or more beeps) tap the Find… option. Tap Connect once your scale is ready: a connection should be initiated. If automatic connections was enabled then once the scale is ready the application will automatically start the connection.
Once connected, the select button will be disabled and the Connect button will switch to Disconnect as shown in Figure 14 below. To disconnect from the weight scale before a measurement is taken, you can tap the Disconnect button.

Figure 14: connected scale

The scale will indicate the successful connection: wait until the scale displays 00. You can now step on the scale to measure your weight. As soon as the scale completes its measurement the data will be transmitted to the phone and displayed as shown in Figure 15 below.

Figure 15: recorded measurement

If voice reports are enabled (they are enabled by default) the application will read out the most recent measurement values at this time.
Certain measurements may only be shown for supported scales: currently only the weight will be shown for the HD-351BT, but the BMI, total body fat and other detailed information will be shown for the BC-590BT. You may need to scroll down to see this additional information. The measurement is automatically saved, and the application will automatically disconnect from the scale once the measurement is received.

Manual measurement entry

To manually record a measurement, tap the Select spinner to select a scale. Once the popup menu appears, tap the Enter measurement… option as shown in Figure 16 below.

Figure 16: enter measurement option

As before, you will be prompted to choose whether or not this will be your default entry method. Once this is done the spinner will reflect your choice and the button will change as shown in Figure 17 below. Any visible values will be cleared.

Figure 17: record a weight measurement

Tap Record to open up the manual entry screen as shown in Figure 18 below.

Figure 18: measurement recording screen

Enter the weight measurement details into the form: the weight is required, and must be a number. You can set the date of the measurement and also enter a short note with the measurement: example values are shown in Figure 19 below.

Figure 19: measurement values

Tap Save to save the measurement. The measurement will be saved and the application will return to the measurement capture screen as shown in Figure 20 below.

Figure 20: saved measurement with confirmation
Reviewing historical measurements

To review saved measurements, tap the History button on the measurement capture screen. This will open the History screen as shown in Figure 21 below. A chart of recorded weight measurements is displayed. This chart initially shows 1 month of measurements at a time.

Figure 21: chart of recorded weight measurements.

The chart can scroll to show previous measurements as shown in Figure 22 below.

Figure 22: scrolling the chart to review older measurements

Tap on any point in the chart to see the measurement detail and the associated date as shown in Figure 23 below.

Figure 23: tap to show measurement detail

A long-press on the chart will open the chart options menu as shown in Figure 24 below: this allows the number of displayed measurements to be changed.

Figure 24: chart options menu

Figure 25 below shows the chart but with 1 week of measurements at a time.

Figure 25: chart of recorded weight measurements at one week resolution

When the phone orientation is changed to landscape the chart will enlarge to fill as much space as is available, as shown in Figure 26 below.

Figure 26: landscape view of chart

Tap the List chart to show a listing of all measurements as shown in Figure 27 below. The measurements are ordered with the most recent measurement at the top.

Figure 27: measurement listing

Tap on any entry in the listing to view the details of the measurement, including the note attached to the measurement (if any), the time it was saved and last modified and any other additional measurement details taken: you may need to scroll to see those details. This is shown in Figure 28 below. Tap the OK button when done.

Figure 28: measurement detail

A long press on any entry in the listing will open its menu, as shown in Figure 29 below.

Figure 29: measurement options menu

Tap the Edit Note menu item to change the note attached to the measurement: you can then enter and changes into the provided input field as shown in Figure 30 below.

Figure 30: editing the note

Tap OK to save the changes as shown in Figure 31 below.

Figure 31: note saved

Tap the Delete menu item to remove a measurement, as shown in Figure 32 below.

Figure 32: deleting a measurement

A confirmation prompt will appear as shown in Figure 33 below. Tap OK to delete the measurement. This action is permanent: deleted measurements can never be recovered.

Figure 33: delete confirmation

The measurement will be permanently deleted.

You can also tap the Add button () at the bottom of the screen to open up the manual measurement recording screen as shown in Figure 18 above.

Share measurements

From the History list screen, measurements can be shared over SMS, email, or any other installed sharing option: each individual measurement has a Share menu option, shown in Figure 34 below.

Figure 34: individual measurement share

Tapping the Share menu item will open up the Android share menu, similar to what is shown in Figure 35 below.

Figure 35: sharing menu screen for an individual measurement

Select the desired share option and it will be passed the measurement data, as shown in Figure 36 below.

Figure 36: sharing a measurement via SMS

To send all measurements by email tap the Email button () at the bottom of the screen. This will open up the Android share menu as shown in Figure 37 below.

Figure 37: sharing menu screen for all measurements

Tap Gmail to email all measurements: it will open up a new email message with an attachment as shown in Figure 38 below. You can then enter the recipient(s) email address(es), edit the body of the email and send the file.

Figure 38: sending all measurements as an email

The attachment is a comma-separated values (CSV) file that can be opened up in Microsoft® Excel® or Google® Docs, and will include the time the measurement was saved by the Android device, the weight value and all other measurements and information that were reported by the scale (for the BC-590BT this includes total body fat, muscle mass, and a large number of other measurements; see the relevant manual for full details), the note that was attached (if any) and information about the specific weight scale that the measurement was taken from; this last bit of information is useful to be able to separate out measurements that may be saved from multiple weight scales to the same Android device.

Measurement data backup and recovery

To safeguard your data against the loss of your phone, or to move your data from one Android device to another you can export and import the data stored by the application. This requires an SD card be plugged in and that the SD card not be mounted on a host computer. From the History chart view tap the Menu button to show the history import/export menu as shown in Figure 39 below.

Figure 39: history import/export menu

Tap Export to export the data. A new export data file will be created in the top level of the SD card with all the data saved to it. The name of the file will be displayed as shown in Figure 40 below. The export data file will have the date and time saved into the name and will have a suffix of weightscaledata.csv, and this file can be copied off the SD card and stored elsewhere for safekeeping or transferred to another Android device.

Figure 40: successfully exported data

To import an export data file, copy the file to the top level of the SD card and then select the Import option from the History chart view menu as shown in Figure 41 below.

Figure 41: import menu option

The application will search the top level of the SD card for all files named with the same suffix weightscaledata.csv and will display a list of possible data files as shown in Figure 42 below.

Figure 42: possible import data files

Tap the desired file to select it and start the import process as shown in Figure 43 below.

Figure 43: importing measurements

Once the import is completed a confirmation will show with the number of measurements imported as shown in Figure 44 below. Tap OK to refresh the chart and show the newly imported data.

Figure 44: successfully imported data
Other measurements

SimpleEye Bluetooth Weight Scale integrates with other applications in the SimpleEye suite to let you record additional measurements. From the main application menu, select the More measurements option as shown in Figure 45 below.

Figure 45: more measurements option

A menu will appear with the additional supported measurement types as shown in Figure 46 below. Tap the desired measurement: as shown below the Temperature option is selected.

Figure 46: additional supported measurement types

If the application is installed, then it will be launched as shown in Figure 47 below.

Figure 47: SimpleEye Bluetooth Temperature

Once the measurement has been recorded in the other application, press the Back button to return to the original measurement capture screen. You can then take additional measurements as shown in Figure 48 below, where Pulse Oxygen is selected.

Figure 48: additional supported measurement types

In this case the application is not installed so the Android Market listing is shown as seen in Figure 49 below.

Figure 49: Android Market listing for SimpleEye Bluetooth Pulse Oximeter
Save measurements to an online health record

SimpleEye Bluetooth Weight Scale lets your saved measurements be synchronized with an online health record using the SimpleEye Google Health Sync application. From the main application menu, select the Save Online option as shown in Figure 50 below.

Figure 50: save online option

If SimpleEye Google Health Sync is installed, it will be launched as shown in Figure 51 below. If not the Android Market listing will be shown.

Figure 51: SimpleEye Google Health Sync

Please note: when using the SimpleEye Google Health Sync application, any measurements that are deleted from SimpleEye Bluetooth Weight Scale will also be deleted from the online health record. Please see the SimpleEye Google Health Sync help information for more details.

Application settings and information

To adjust the application’s settings and preferences, tap the Settings button on the measurement capture screen. This will open the settings screen as shown in Figure 52 below. From the settings screen, options are available (you may have to scroll down) to review information about the software, terms of service and the privacy and content policies. If you do not wish measurements to be saved automatically, check the Manual Save option. You can also check or clear the Connect automatically option to enable/disable automatic connection to your preferred weight scale.

Figure 52: application settings and information

You can change the units the program uses to display weight by tapping the Preferred Weight Units menu item: you will be prompted to select the desired weight units as shown in Figure 53 below.

Figure 53: setting the preferred weight units.

To configure measurement reminders, tap the Reminder Interval item as shown in Figure 54 below.

Figure 54: measurement reminder interval.

You will then be able to select an interval from the options menu that appears, as shown in Figure 55 below.

Figure 55: reminder interval options.

To clear all saved measurements, tap the Clear saved measurements item: this will prompt you for confirmation as shown in Figure 56 below.

Figure 56: initial confirmation to clear all saved measurements.

If you tap the Clear button, you will be prompted for confirmation a second time, as shown in Figure 57 below.

Figure 57: final confirmation to clear all saved measurements.

If you tap the Clear button a second time then the measurements will be deleted. This action is permanent: deleted measurements can never be recovered. After the deletion is done the Clear saved measurements item will be disabled, as shown in Figure 58 below.

Figure 58: successfully cleared all saved measurements

To clear all saved weight scale information, tap the Clear saved scales item: this will prompt you for confirmation as shown in Figure 59 below.

Figure 59: clear saved scale information.

If you tap the Clear button, all saved scale details will be removed. Next time a scale is connected its details will be saved once again. After the scale details are cleared, the Clear saved scales item will be disabled, as shown in Figure 60 below.

Figure 60: successfully cleared all saved scale information

Additional options allow manual saving of measurements by setting or clearing the appropriate checkbox.

Reminders

SimpleEye Bluetooth Weight Scale provides reminders that help you regularly record your measurements. These show up in the form of a notification as seen in Figure 61 below: notice the application icon in the notification area (the top left of the screen).

Figure 61: reminder notification

You can then open the notification panel to see the full detail as shown in Figure 62 below. Tapping on the notification will open the application.

Figure 62: reminder notification detail

By default notifications are sent if it has been more than 1 day since your last measurement: the reminder interval can be changed as discussed above.

Sending Feedback

We really want to hear from you about errors you encounter, features you would like to see or suggestions on how to improve the user interface. To send us feedback, scroll to the bottom of the Settings screen and select the Feedback item, as shown in Figure 63 below.

Figure 63: selecting the Feedback option

Enter an email address (this is required, so we can get back to you about your requested change) and your comments and press the Submit button as shown in Figure 64 below to send it.

Figure 64: sending feedback

Your submission will be confirmed as shown in Figure 65 below, and that’s it. Thank you!

Figure 65: successfully submitted feedback