This open-source project lets you sync Withings data to other apps without a subscription

When it was revealed before this month that Withings would necessitate new users to subscribe to a Withings Plus subscription to sync heath data from the company’s devices to third-party apps, Tom Anthony, who was already fed up alongside the Withings mobile app which they depict as a “bloated mess,” became motivated to “free” their scales. Anthony’s resolution was to create an open-source project called YourOwnWeigh that reroutes your data distant from Withings’ servers so it can be wirelessly synced to another apps and platforms for free.

You can read additional concerning the project on GitHub, anywhere you’ll additionally discover quick-start guides on how to get YourOwnWeigh set up, but it mostly consists of a web app operating on a server of your choice. If you don’t already run your own, Anthony says YourOwnWeigh can run entirely on a liberated CloudFlare document stated how small data it’s moving around.

The YourOwnWeigh web app handles multiple tasks, including using Bluetooth to update Withings scales alongside substitute firmware so they upload data to a non-Withings server you’ve configured. Instead of hosting a copy of Withings’ firmware, it’s downloaded and patched as needed. The web app additionally imports the scale’s current settings and existing person profiles, and downloads the health data generated by regular weigh-ins.

To get that data into Apple Health, Anthony used Apple Shortcuts to create a scheduled automation that pulls the Withings data off the substitute server and imports it into the app, but they’re expecting the community can arrive up alongside ways to develop the compatibility to another apps, including Google Health. YourOwnWeigh is additionally currently constricted to fair two older models of Withings’ scales. But assuming the firmware on newer models can be patched in a akin manner, expanding the project’s compatibility have to be possible.