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Android Wear Set Up

Android Wear Set Up

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Follow the Android Wear instructions in the order listed on this page. Doing any of these steps out of order may result in data being skewed or other set up errors!

To download the necessary apps from the Google Play Store and to continue to get updates, a participant must have a Google account (participant can use any email to sign up for a Google account). We recommend that participants use their own account. Do not delete the Google account. Insight (or any app) cannot update without a Google account active on the phone.

Note: Connect to Wi-Fi

1. Download Wear OS from the Google Play Store

  • Choose the Google Play Store app from the participant’s phone

  • Search Wear OS by Google

  • Choose INSTALL


2. Connect Wear OS Watch to Phone

This section will require both the watch and the phone.

  1. Tap on the watch screen when it says Tap to begin

     

  2. Select English (United States) as your language

     

  3. Press the check mark to agree to the Terms of Use

     

  4. The watch will then prompt you to open the Wear OS app on your phone. Scroll down and you’ll see the watch name. Take note of the watch name as you’ll use this as a reference to it later during the phone setup.

     

  1. Press Start Setup

     

  2. Press Agree for Terms of service

     

  3. Press Agree for Make Wear OS better

     

  4. The phone will then attempt to link with your watch. Turn on Bluetooth if the phone prompts you to turn it on.

     

  5. Match the watch name seen on the watch with the watch name on the phone and click on it.

     

     

  6. A pass key will appear on the watch. Make sure it matches the one on your phone and press OK to pair the phone with the watch.

     

  7. Under Choose which Google Accounts to copy to your watch, make sure the slider is on (slider will be blue if it’s set to on) next to the participant’s google account. Click on Next

     

  8. Press Copy to copy the google account to the watch

     

  9. Under Stay connected to Wi-Fi, press Connect

     

  10. Press Next under Chat with your friends

     

  11. Press Allow for all 4 of the permissions.


     

  12. Under Check your calendar, press Next and press Allow for the calendar permission

     

  13. Under Get notifications at a glance, press Allow

     

  14. Tap on the slider next to Wear OS by Google (it’ll turn blue)

     

  15. Press Allow on the Allow Wear OS by Google pop up

     

  16. Press Next under Location notice

  17. The phone will then continue to set up on its own (may take up to 5 minutes).

     

  18. Once you see the You’re all set screen, press Done



 

3. Sign in to Google Fit on the Watch

  • Swipe from right to left on the watch

  • Tap the screen to sign in to Google Fit and use the Google account that you copied over to the watch

  • Fill in all the details and accept all the permissions

At this point, the watch should be paired with the phone. A good way to know is to try and change the watch face by going into the Wear OS app on the phone and picking a different face. The face change should get reflected in the watch too.

4. Download Insight from Google Play Store

  • Choose the Google Play Store app from the participant’s phone

  • Search for Insight mHealth Platform

  • Choose Install

  • After the app downloads, choose ACCEPT

  • Open the Insight app

  • Click Allow to all permissions

  • At the “Do not optimize battery usage” prompt, choose YES

  • Create a participant in the CMS and set up the participant on the Insight app. Click here for instructions on participant set up.

We recommend using the Code Method for setting up participants.

After you setup a participant on the Insight app, please wait for 15-20 minutes for all the setup to finish. If you start setting up participant on the Outsight app too soon, the connection might not be created correctly.

5. Download mHealth Outsight from Google Play Store

  • Choose the Google Play Store app from the participant’s phone

  • Search mHealth Outsight

If the mHealth Outsight app does not pull up in the search result, use the following link on the phones’s Google Chrome browser and press Open in app when it prompts you: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhealth.corehardware

  • Click on Install

  • Click on Open to open the Outsight app

  • Press Allow on all the permissions

 

6. Download mHealth OutsightAndroidWear app on the Fossil Watch

  • On the Fossil watch, press the middle dial to open up the watch’s list of apps.

     

     

  • Click on Play Store

     

  • Scroll down until you see Outsight under Apps on your phone and click on the download button

7. Enable Sensor Permission

  • On the Fossil watch, press the middle dial to display the watch’s list of apps

 

  • Click on Settings

 

  • Scroll down until Apps & Notifications appears, then select it

 

  • Scroll to App Permissions, then select it

 

  • Find Outsight Android Wear, then select it

 

  • Click on the switch beside Sensors; once the Sensor is enabled, the gray dot will transition to red

Sensor Disabled (Gray)



 

Enabling Heart Rate

1. Find Heart Rate Tile

  • Swipe from right to left on the watch

  • Find Heart Rate by scrolling to the left

  • If it cannot be located, Add a Tile by holding a finger on the watch screen until a slight vibration is felt and the tiles are minimized

  • Select + under the heading Add Tile

  • Find and Select Heart Rate by Google Fit

  • Heart Rate is now added as a Tile

 

2. Allow all Permissions

  • Click on the checkmark when asked “Continuously read your heart rate?”

  • When prompted, “Tap to start tracking your heart rate”

 

  • Reading will appear once the watch is ready to start measuring the heart beat; a number will appear when set up is completed

 

 

 

 

Troubleshooting

  1. Ensure WEAR OS, Insight, and Outsight remain open and running in the background.

    1. If the app is open, Click the “Home” button (typically located at the bottom, center of the phone) to allow the app to run in the background. Example of a Recent window below:

      Galaxy S7 Recent Window Displays Insight and Wear OS

    2. Note: If the app(s) are not displayed in the “Recent” window then the app(s) are closed; this prevents any background operations which hinder collecting sensor data.

  2. Verify there is a connection between the smartwatch and phone.

    1. Open the WEAR OS app on the phone > under the watch name “connected” will appear if the phone and watch are paired.

      1. If WEAR OS signifies there is no connection, reestablish the connection by hitting reconnect

  3. If there appears to be no connection, open Outsight and Insight on the phone.

    1. This can reestablish a connection between Outsight to Insight to allow sensor readings.

  4. Restart the phone and watch if the above methods do not produce the expected results.

    1. Restarting Phone: hold down the power button (typically on the side of the phone) until Restart Phone appears > Click Restart Phone

    2. Restarting Watch: hold down the large middle dial on the side until Restart appears > Click Restart

  5. Attempt to pair multiple phones and watches while thoroughly reading the instructions (starting from 1. Download Wear OS) to gain more experience; doing this can reduce quantity of errors when pairing the phone and watch.

 

 

Supported Devices:

  • Fossil Smartwatch 5th Generation