Damn you HUKD. Didn't think I wanted one of these until I saw this at £14. Bought.

For us they'll go on sale at:
5pm on Sunday 15th
6pm on Monday 16th
7pm on Tuesday 17th
8pm on Wednesday 18th
9pm on Thursday 19th
3am and 4pm on Monday 23rd

Don't know if I need one, but ordered anyway

Er, that's this one?

Copied from reddit

You need to have the latest version from APK Mirror, the one on the play store won't work. Once installed it will appear as a menu option in the upper right.

There's a heart rate option in the settings btw

Mine broke after 4 days won't sync with my iPhone no longer. Waste of tym

Just stumbled across this thread after buying the 1s of eBay a few weeks ago. It's OK I suppose, after a bit of research it sounds like the original miband with the coloured leds is the best and has got more of a following so better 'adapted' apps. Where's the best place to get one of these as I can't find any anywhere?

Remind me to look tomorrow :laughing: in no fit state for running now :stuck_out_tongue: haven't tried it yet.

Generally underwhelmed so far though.

Not tried or found the running mode, use my Garmin for running. Trying to get my resting heart down so the mi band is ideal as I tend to check it manually throughout the day. Out of interest what's the fitbit like for running?

was that running mode thing that a little bird (hi msk) told me about not implemented well?

What can the charge do that the Mi band can't??

Mine's arrived today too. Not opened.

And now just gone and bought a Charge HR too.

Mine has arrived today. Not opened it yet as I've now decided I want a fitbit charge hr instead. Looks likes the wife is getting another christmas present! :wink:

Still waiting for mine to arrive.

People who have received their bands... what do you think of them so far?

Cool, hope mine arrvies soon. What do you think of it?

Mine arrived this morning. Tracking still hasn't changed! Absolute waste of time.

I suspect going by other people's and my previous order, it will get here around the 22nd if it comes before xmas at all. But tracking didn't help me work that out! :smile:

I don't think paying for tracking was worth it. It hasn't told me anything new in a week. It's even ambiguous about whether or not it has even started being transported.

I have a feeling the next update will be once it's delivered and I'm guessing I'll know when that happens anyway! lol

Instant heart rate measure bit on iOS is top right settings button, then heart rate.

Shipped out e-mail received 28/11 08:57AM. I can't even see a heart rate on demand button in the Android app.

Mine arrived today and I can't figure out how to view Heart Rate data. The only option that mentions HR is one that says it'll periodically monitor HR during sleep for better sleep monitoring and I've not been to bed yet so I wonder if I'll have data in the morning.

seems BG and GB selling for £20+ now

Banggood has launched it pre-sale and it's pricey than gearbest. Fingers crossed they seem unreliable.

Just been charged too. Slightly more than I pre-ordered for, I guess the exchange rate has changed.

same here £14.56

looks like its now shipping, money taken from PayPal and no longer preorder on the site.

your rambles are not rambles - reads just fine to me!

running mode sounds interesting thanks, i'll keep an eye out.

GearBest 8% off promo code: RMNTGB

This makes it sound like you can only check heart rate when you tell it to in the app. It's tested vs an apple watch here.

http://blog.anythings.co/xiaomi-mi-band-pulse-review/

But this thread there is speculation there is a running mode where it check heart rate every 30 seconds. It's confusing, I guess no one knows yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/miband/comments/3skzyn/continuous_heart_rate_monitoring_in_running_mode/

I remembered tonight

I've just been having a quick read now, since I don't know anything about these technologies and I am now curious. The first result google turned up was this:

http://neurosky.com/2015/01/ecg-vs-ppg-for-heart-rate-monitoring-which-is-best/

However, they sell ECG sensors and it sounds like the information is heavily biased.

Then I came to this study, of which I can only read the abstract without paying for it. It suggests the exact opposite, proving that the conditions it is used in are consistent.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19848857

This sounds like it might have the type of info you want to know in it:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7032208&newsearch=true&queryText=Heart%20Rate%20Monitoring%20from%20Wrist-Type%20Photoplethysmographic%20.LB.PPG.RB.%20Signals%20During%20Intensive%20Physical%20Exercise

But it is paid for again. Was from this page: https://sites.google.com/site/researchbyzhang/ecgppg

My experience of the EA Sport one was that it did react to changes in heart rate very quickly. How accurate it is I cannot tell, but it did seem to be responive. I did compare to it the monitor on my cross trainer which definitely doesn't use light, but I can't remember what the result was now :laughing: I don't think there was anything notable in it, the EA thing was probably a bit better. That gets strapped on your upper arm rather than your wrist.

If you need extreme accuracy, I am kind of doubting that you will get it from this. I just want to use it to get a rough idea of calories burnt.

Been playing with my older one today, was shaking my hand along to some music, as I do when I am by myself and realised I had added 500 steps to my step count :laughing: It would be nice if waving my hand around used the same amount of energy, but somehow I doubt it :smiley:

There you go, there is an epic ramble for your ramble :smiley:

just one of my usual rambling posts then :wink:

what i want is for my heart rate to be automatically tracked for the whole day, recording samples every 30s or so.

not sure this can do it as it seems to work from sort of a side effect of the heart rate which depends on the blood flow to the skin, but raising your arm above your head makes blood drain out of your arm or playing a sport with arm swings forces blood into the arms which may affect it.

might depend how often it samples though - if its really fast it can maybe get a reading in between beats as a baseline?

Ordered one from Gearbest. Couldn't be bothered fannying around and they have a presale price promise if the price drops before the 8th anyway. It only seemed to be getting more expensive, so didn't want to wait any longer.

I don't get why you think you would get it before release, because you use a code?

On the product page it says:


Did you order before the 13th? It doesn't make it clear when they will be delivered.

I think......

ordered it using the promo code. So its not preorder.

Has anyone's TinyDeals order changed from processing yet? ordered mine on the 16th and no change.

You're welcome :smiley:

Been trying to figure out what you mean for a while! I will try again after I've had some sleep :laughing:

thanks for video squirt :stuck_out_tongue:, seems like HR function is useless though as its not a real time monitor
if i am wanting my HR chedked them i am probably a bit busy to activate the function at that time

Just found a size comparison video :smiley:

https://youtu.be/DUQxZvtTDTc?t=186

Tiny! :smile:

That's how I learnt I have freakishly small arms though :confused: That thing takes up the whole length of my forearm! Everyone else seems to be able get it on their wrist :S I never knew I was so small. There's only one hole left on the strap of my mi band too.

guess its small vs your pipboy which i just saw! :laughing:

I wonder if that's the same thing they use in the heart rate band in EA sports active game? That has a flashing light in the band that looks pretty similar to this now I think about it actually. That is on a elastic velcro strap, so it does keep close to your skin. I guess I could test it as see how loosely you can wear it before it doesn't work.

The length of the silver bit looks the same as mine. It takes up nearly the whole width of my wrist, I suspect she is relatively small. But it hard to gauge the depth in comparison on the video. It doesn't show it on her wrist for very long. It doesn't look hugely different at any rate.

Nope missed again.

Was anybody able to get it today on tinydeals?

according to gearbest, it doesn't measure your pulse by movement from pulse point on wrist, it measures light absorption by your skin which changes with blood flow/hr (ppg - Photoplethysmography)

still wonder how tight would need to be though and it definitely looks oddly thick on the girl in video.

todays sale starts at 03.00 beijing time which is 19:00 uk time?

Where do we actually find the coupon code from tiny deals?

The offer is on tonight at 8pm? The code goes live at 6pm?

looks pretty chunky
do they have to be worn quite tightly for the HR monitoring?

I forgot and missed the Tinydeal offer tonight. Will try to remember tomorrow.

Got in there this evening...£13.63 via TD

Thanks Bigpappa and Davidh.

Guess I have to sign up then, hope I don't get spammed.

You have to register on the TinyDeal website before you can add the code. You cannot get the discount deal as a guest shopper using paypal.

Just ordered mine from Tinydeal and it was £13.16.

Tinydeal or Gearbest which is better to use. Both accept paypal I think.

Anyone know when these will start to get shipped out? I ordered mine when it was 14.02£ so pretty early

Thanks

Cheers I nabbed one bang on 5pm. Set myself a reminder.

Can't see where to enter the code. :sunglasses:
I wonder if you need to register first, bit relunctant to do this as want to go through Paypal.

I had two tabs open with the band already in the basket on one and the code on the other just in case it changed. Hope it helps.

Np, made a typo though, $20 is not just under £20 haha, it's around £14. Seems you have to be quick though, I was 40 mins late for today's sale and it said the code had already been redeemed on 100 of them.

Thank you for the link and for explaining, I really appreciate it :smiley:

Nope it's on this website: http://www.tinydeal.com/miband-1s-px347wp-si-4979.html

The code only works for the first 100 each day at the designated time that use the code and then you can get the Mi Band Pulse/1S for $20 which is just under £14.

The next time that code will work is tomorrow at 6pm.

So that code works on banggood.com? Could I be cheeky and ask for a link to the band on there please? I couldn't find it when I looked.

Nice, I was gonna set an alarm for it but thought I'd remember.

​ordered bang on 5pm, tried code again at 5:25pm and code not accepted. Good luck for next time.

Its still the same price? $24.89

Its not accepting the code miband1s0116 - so is this the new correct price and not the sale price?

​Thanks, just ordered.

Oh, heated added btw.

Crap, ordered the old one last week. Didn't look like a heart rate version was coming out, just that round ceramic one. I have the buyer's remorse :disappointed: Do wonder if there will be a coloured LED version though.

​yep exactly the same

It's weird, it was showing in pounds then when it went to PayPal it changed to dollars. Did it do the same to you? I haven't ordered it because of that!

when is the next deal window? I don't under the chart on the site.

The link says 00:00 13th Nov GMT+8 which = 4PM GMT but I just tried to use the code on the site miband1s0116 and it's not being accepted. I guess it meant 4PM GMT 12th Nov which makes sense. The next sale seems to be 01:00 16th Nov GMT+8 = 5PM GMT 15th Nov?

Don't really fancy paying £3 more for this now, especially as we won't know how long it'll be until the pre-orders are fulfilled. Not in a rush for one though as I'm using the original one but I've had it a year now and after wearing it every day it is a little beat up.

HR tracking is it real time like a HR monitor does? maybe FItbit HR as well

ignore, didn't realise you had linked in your text

how did u get it for this price? im only seeing it at £19 Your text here

Got mine for £13.70 from td, they're selling 100 everyday at certain times, extra £1.30 and i got express delivery. Did try to make a post with it but not a htukd approved merchant.

How come the pounds goes back to dollars when you try and pay with PayPal? Does this cost extra?

It's showing November 10th to 8th December is pre-sale so I guess everyone who ordered in that date span are affected? Showing 11672 preorders. I guess the nearer the end of pre sale the dearer the price gets...and the goalposts get moved. I just don't want to order and have the hassle of sorting out something lost in the Xmas post.

Does that effect the people who ordered it when the pre sale was saying 20nov and sub 14£ deal?

Showing as £16.37 now and pre sale ends 8th December. Not for me now.

I have backed 2 blocks smartwaches on kickstarter yet bought 2 of these. No wonder I'm bankrupt

A few early videos of it on YouTube now. Seems like it only records the pulse manually when you ask the app to check it.

I've been using the old version for 7 months now great product tells me how crap I sleep (especially after beer!)

BTW you can put some pressure on XIAOMI on this post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108531052526575991056/posts/QyM2Zzc1jeS .

They are asking if we want the band available worldwide.

ordered, no confirmation email though. can see payment pending in PayPal and have a order number. guess they don't do confirmation emails?

Anyone know if you could use the HR functionality with another app, like Strava, or just their own one?

But MI Fit app gets mixed reviews?

6% Top Cash Back, but I think I will wait to see who else offers it first.

Just ordered

Bought. Couldn't stop myself. Probably won't use it for more than a week.

That would be the original Mi Band, no HR tracking. Still a nifty little product for the price though, I've still got mine. I will be getting the 1S though!

Though I won't be buying from GearBest, i've not heard the best of things (excuse the pun) I'd rather go with BangGood when they stock it!

I ordered mine when it was posted 3 weeks ago. Still not delivered yet. It's the old version btw.

Cheers op ordered. Went with the express tracking option and insurance for a few quid more.

I'm using the first generation of mi band and its very awesome! (60+ days with 1 charge) i will order the new one definitely!

Pl

Aren't all kneejerk reactions 'instant' by their nature?

I was going to order the old version, but ordered this instead although it's nearly twice the cost...don't ask why cos I don't know. HUKD strikes again.

^ No that's the old one without heart rate monitor.

Thanks OP. Hot

is this the same one?



Xiaomi Mi Smartband - Black https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00N73GPTM


please advise

Cheers op

Yeah thanks op. Previously decided I had no use for one of these and now just ordered one without even thinking about it!

Damn you HUKD. Didn't think I wanted one of these until I saw this at £14. Bought.

Its successor was launched yesterday. Comes with a hear-rate monitor.

Don't know if I need one, but ordered anyway

The heart rate tracking is gonna be way off at this price.

OP, what other websites?

It tests that, too? Interesting.

​I read its similar to the apple watch one but the apple watch one is rubbish

I will get one dependent on reviews i think. If the heart tracker is on point im in (and hoping they release an api)

Thanks have some heat, ordered.

Be aware that the presale ends on the 19th Nov, and in the Q&A they have stated they will not ship until the pre-sale ends.

The band is officially released Wed 11-11 in China, so it might be that another merchant (like Bang Good) will be able to dispatch and send earlier than GearBest.

They're US$15 RRP in China, so GearBest selling them for $21 is not bad, considering it includes shipping.

I don't think they'll go much cheaper than maybe $18-19 after it launches (shipped to the UK) so might as well buy one in the presale!

Is the site trust worthy? or does any recommend any where else? been looking at these for a while.

I paid in uk pounds though

Can't pay in UK pounds though? :disappointed:

will this offer any form of continues heart rate monitoring.

Very tempted by this, been monitoring Xiaomi for a while waiting for the 1s but this is the first i've heard about the release.

What advantages does it offer over the older model ?

EDIT:- Wow that's really cheap for HR monitoring functions. Heat added!