Zepp Health is rolling out firmware version 3.2.8.3 for the Amazfit Helio Strap. This adds a recovery heart rate metric to workout records, introduces remote device restart from the Zepp App and tweaks calorie tracking accuracy.
The changes
The main headline is the introduction of a recovery heart rate metric to your workout records. After each exercise, the Helio Strap now gives you a sense of how quickly your heart rate comes back down. This a useful measure of fitness that more established brands have offered for years. You’ll need to update the Zepp App to version 9.12.0 or above if you want to see this data show up in your activity history.
Zepp Health has also added a way to remotely reboot your Helio Strap from the Zepp App. This sounds minor, but it makes dealing with any hiccups or sync issues much less of a hassle. You can now restart the strap from your phone instead of fiddling with button presses on the device itself. Again, this needs the latest app version.
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The Helio Strap has had its calorie estimation algorithm tweaked in this update. Some users had noticed calorie burn totals that felt out of line with reality, especially during longer sessions. Zepp Health has tried to address this by refining how calories are calculated, so expect numbers that make a bit more sense after your next workout.
Here is the change-log:
- Added “Recovery Heart Rate” metric to workout records.
- Added device restart function, allowing device reboot via the Zepp App.
- Optimized the issue of excessive calorie consumption.
- Other feature optimizations.
Helio Strap’s update pace
The last major Helio Strap update, version 3.1.8.2, focused on making workout heart rate and sleep data more accurate, with adjustments to the heart rate algorithm and better sleep scoring. It also fixed tracking gaps, tackled Bluetooth bugs and improved both automatic activity detection and BioCharge accuracy. The company has kept up a steady pace of updates, rolling out several over the past couple of months for the Helio Strap.
In related news, just yesterday Amazfit Balance 2 started receiving a firmware update that swaps out its Recovery metric for BioCharge. This is a feature that until now was only found on the Helio Strap.
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