WITHINGS Body Smart – Accurate Scale for Body Weight and Fat Percentage, Body Composition Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Weight Scale, Baby Weight Scale, Smart Scale Apple Health Compatible, Bathroom Scale

Body Smart does everything that I need
Had an older model of the Withings scale (Body+) and always had problems connecting to my home WiFi. I set this one up in less than ten minutes and it’s much better than my older one.

PART TWO – DON’T BUY THIS PRODUCT EVER And………….Tech Support Reached out and here are the results to date.
This is my first review==========================================================================Now I am adding more adventures in Nokia Land Technical Support=======================================LOOK AT LAST SECTION=======================I am personally sick and tired of “wonderful” products like this that cost me much more in time and trouble to attempt to debug the work of their undereducated programmers who can’t create software with conditional statements to determine hardware and software environments limited to only the manufacturer’s products.Simply put, the programmers who created the software inside this newer version of an old product (same hardware platform) made software that cannot operate the combination of hardware, embedded programing, IOS and CLoud technologies such that the “product” offered, which is the scale plus the cloud ecosystem hat connects with your iPhone / iPad / Mac will work across the manufacturer’s product line.In this case this entire family of weight scales.I have owned an original Whitings scale (it is essentially the same platform with updated embedded software technology) for nearly 4 years and it failed. But it worked every day and never let me down.I figured out that one of the pressure sensors died.So I thought that it would be a real simple matter to spend money to buy a newer version of the same weighing chassis.And then get it to work with my Whitings / Nokia App on my iPhone + iPad and the web enabled cloud platform that is offered.This way my new version of the old scale would work with my Activitie Pop and my very intermittently working Withings Blood Pressure gauge.Boy was I wrong. It has taken me well over two evenings of remove this, remove that, reboot this, reboot that, reconfigure this, reconfigure that, in terms of my new scale, my existing cloud account, my iPad and iPhone apps.And still no go.It is not that I am a newbie.I have been in this “high tech” high frustration industry for decades since the 80’s and still work in it, especially in software engineering, web, cloud and process control applications. So I can follow directions. I can troubleshoot hardware and software and I can generally get things to work, even if I have to flash an EPROM once in a while.Not going to waste that effort any more.And definitely not going to try to fix Mr Withing’s or Mr Nokia’s scale product, as I think Nokia is in midst of selling the Whitings line back to Whitings.The heck with this company and it’s product, as they have taken something that “just worked” and turned it into a device designed to make a user mad.ADVICE.Buy a simple technology scale, a pen, a notebook, and weigh yourself and look at the weight shown, then write down the weight daily next to a date entry, in the notebook……If you want to get fancy, plot it on a piece of graph paper.I know that after the almost 800 years since paper was introduced into medieval Europe, some might think that paper is still in “Beta” test.But paper with letters formed by pencil or ink, just works.You will be happier.Because this product does not work as advertised in the promised “ecosystem.”Review Number Two, experience so far with technical support==================After posting my first review, out of the clear blue sky Nokia Tech Support reached out to me. Something I never expected.OK, they want to make it work, then I’ll work with themSo far my impression is that they want to do what many health care people try to do….pander to you by keeping you in the dark.Without giving you anything approaching a technical discussion. But perhaps that is how their equipment is ultimately designed.I found that I finally could get the scale to be “seen” as a valid device by the Nokia Web App, the Nokia Health mate App, and amazingly on my ancient, charged up, as it sat on a shelf ancient iPad with the ancient Blue colored 3.13 Whitings App.BUT BUT BUT BUT the scale does not seem to be capable of sending my weight to the Nokia apps.What’s further interesting, is that the error messages went away which leads me to no conclusion about anything.Even after rebooting everything.What’s interesting is the last tech support suggestion…..=============================================================Could you please remove the batteries from the scale for a full 60 seconds and then reinsert them? Once you have done this, place the scale on hard floor, wait 10 seconds, and weigh yourself. It is important that you wait 10 seconds after placing down or moving the scale before weighing yourself as the scale needs several seconds to calibrate. You must also wait 10 seconds in between each weigh-in so that it can recalibrate.If you see any arrows on the corners of the scale’s display, this indicates that your weight is not evenly distributed on the scale. Adjusting your position on the scale will cause the arrows to disappear and should result in an accurate weight measurement. If the arrows do not disappear, your weight measurements will likely not be accurate. Let me know if the weight is now showing accurately.Please let me know how we may assist you further.Thank you and have a nice day!================================================Tried it, and no complete go. The scale can be seen but the weight does not get recorded in the app, even after upgrading all software.Did finally get a message on my iPhone about MAC address filtering, which I checked on my brand new Asus Router.Another thing………….. And this gets to be crazy and tells me that “Nokia, we got some form of software problem”I have an infamous WIthings Blood Pressure cuff that always acted up..In fact, one day it just died after about 45 days, and that was almost 4 years ago.Because I felt so totally scammed I did not have the heart to throw it out, and I was already past the return period.So I took the batteries out of it, threw it in a box and chalked it up to just poor software integration.Today, I remembered it, so for grins dug it out of the box in the garage, put new batteries in it, turned it on, it powered up, the newest version of the app found it instantly, app wanted to do a software upgrade, which it did, and now……..after aging in a cardboard box in a dusty + dark corner of my garage like fine wine left to age, the blood pressure cuff now works flawlessly.Go figure, except that perhaps Nokia creates hardware products that are so far ahead of the software that Nokia is capable of creating, that you should buy the hardware and put the hardware in a box for 2-3 years to allow the software to catch up.I will respond to tech support with my findings to date, and report here later, when they reply.Stay tuned ===================================.

Great Quality, Worth the Money if you have an iPhone
I was skeptical, but it’s worth the money, especially if you have an iPhone. It’s syncs right to your health app and then will transfer to other apps, such as my fitness pal, etc. Definitely recommend! The color screen is nice and it was so easy to set up. It is a little heavy, but that’s because of the good quality.

Must buy scale
Awesome scale with an app. Looks great and the battery lasts forever.All the info is sent to your phone and it keeps track of your progress.Worth the money

There are thousands of BMI body fat scales here on Amazon, so choosing one can be overwhelming, and this one is more expensive than others. But I checked out the Withings company and they appear to be the first company that created scales like this which measure BMI, body fat, body water, bone mass etc so I felt more confident that their technology and software would be better and more accurate, and that they would invest in continually improving and developing their tech.I’m sure the accuracy of measurements on any of these scales is not as precise as equipment that would be used in a clinical setting, but overall the measurements are about what I expected so it does seem pretty accurate. And even assuming a margin of error, the consistency of the measurements over time is reliable and a good indicator of the changes within your body if you’re trying to lose weight, lower your body fat, or gain muscle, etc.Overall this scale has the look and feel of a quality product, from the packaging to the design and build, as well as the size of the scale (larger than some others I was looking at).The iPhone app installed fine, had a few issues at first connecting my phone to the scale but restarted my phone after installing the app and that seemed to solve the problem. Easily set up multiple users. But note the scale doesn’t work on a 5G wifi network, works fine on 2.4G wifi.The iPhone app is well designed, a clean simple layout that is visually appealing and easy to navigate. It presents the data well and syncs with Apple’s Health app seamlessly.I had never heard of Withings before, but I would buy a product from them again.

I purchased these to go alongside my ScanWatch and they work seamlessly together which makes the whole package perfect for my needs. The unit itself appears to be well manufactured and is certainly featured packed even if some of the features are not required on a set of scales !! In use these scales have proven to be very accurate when used correctly on a solid floor and not on carpet. I can happily say this as due to health issues I am currently being monitored closely by my local hospital and the results from their equipment and these scales are near on identical given the different times etc that the readings are taken . One other point that absolutely amazed me was that upon the first use and after syncing with the app the app advised me to have my bone density checked as it appeared that the reading given was low. This also confirmed to me that I made the right choice in buying these as a couple of years ago now I was diagnosed with osteoporosis for which I am long term medication to address this. This was something that I certainly did not expect from a set of scales.There was nothing difficult in setting up of the scales , in fact it was quite easy as the app does all the hard work for you. Updates were done automatically through the app which was certainly no different than updating any other item over the internet.All in all I for one am delighted with these scales, they have proved to be a good investment and well worth that little extra than the normal bathroom scales especially if you have health issues which you are attempting to address. I for one would not hesitate to recommend these as they are simply a amazing piece of kit.