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Connecting Health Connect

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Health Connect brings your runs and recovery from an Android phone.

What Runsei reads from it

  • Runs and workouts saved there, with walking and running distance
  • Heart rate
  • Resting heart rate
  • Heart rate variability (HRV)
  • Sleep
  • Weight

What Runsei can send to it

Planned sessions: no.

  • Planned sessions do not travel through Health Connect. For a Wear OS watch, see the Runsei for Wear OS page.

How to connect, step by step

  1. If your watch has its own app (Samsung Health, for instance), let it share into Health Connect first.
  2. Open the Runsei app on your Android phone.
  3. Open Profile, then Data hub, find Health Connect and tap Turn on.
  4. Allow the types Android lists. Recovery data then arrives on its own each morning.

What does not work

  • Runsei can read only what your watch’s app has put in Health Connect.
  • Some watches pass a run to Health Connect without its heart rate. Open the run and type the average, or upload the .fit or .tcx file.
  • Runsei writes to Health Connect only the runs recorded by the Runsei watch app for Wear OS, and only with your permission.
  • Nothing is read from the web: it needs the Android app.
  • Health Connect exists only on Android. An Apple Watch cannot send to it, because an Apple Watch pairs only with an iPhone.

What you need

Phone
An Android phone with Health Connect and the Runsei app.
App build
A current Runsei Android app.
Watch models
Any watch whose app writes to Health Connect, such as Galaxy Watch or Pixel Watch. See the compatible devices below.

Compatible devices

Last checked 28 Oct 2026. Tested means someone used that exact model with Runsei. Should work means the code or the maker’s own pages say it does, not yet tried on that model. Not supported and Not known are what they say.

  • Samsung Galaxy Watch4 and later (Wear OS 3+)

    Should work
    Runs to Runsei
    Yes
    Sessions to the watch
    Not yet
    Heart rate
    Yes
    Sleep
    Yes
    HRV / recovery
    Not known

  • Google Pixel Watch (all generations)

    Should work
    Runs to Runsei
    Yes
    Sessions to the watch
    Not yet
    Heart rate
    Yes
    Sleep
    Yes
    HRV / recovery
    Not known

  • Other Wear OS 3+ watches (e.g. TicWatch, Fossil Gen 6)

    Not known
    Runs to Runsei
    Not known
    Sessions to the watch
    Not yet
    Heart rate
    Not known
    Sleep
    Not known
    HRV / recovery
    Not known

  • Wear OS 2 and older watches

    Not known
    Runs to Runsei
    Not known
    Sessions to the watch
    No
    Heart rate
    Not known
    Sleep
    Not known
    HRV / recovery
    Not known

Not tested yet

  • HRV from Samsung and Pixel watches: not tested yet (no source confirms it arrives).
  • Garmin through Health Connect: not tested yet. Connect Garmin directly instead.

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