[aaronem]

My Basis band addresses your point 1 quite well; all I have to do is wear it to bed.

Unfortunately, there's no good API (and your choice of three variously lousy ones [1]), and it syncs in the same way as the Beddit does, i.e., via Bluetooth to a phone. (Or via USB to a computer, but that's not much more help.)

I've thought about trying to MITM the data on its way out from the PC to Basis's sync endpoint, in order to see whether I can trap it there instead of having to query it back out of one of Basis's various APIs once it's synced. On the other hand, I've already got > 1 month of data synced, so I'm going to need some method of extracting data from their backend in any case. (But on the third hand, since Intel bought Basis and Basis apparently doesn't bother much with new development any more, I figure it might be handy to have a backend for sync data in case the hardware becomes otherwise useless.)

[1] Two equally undocumented and unstable not-really-supposed-to-be-public APIs, for which various clients exist on Github in various states of disrepair, and a third, also undocumented but probably more stable, API which feeds their web UI..

[desireco42]

So I was looking for Basis to maybe release next version of their device, then they got acquired by Intel and I was hoping it will not die horrible death, yet from your description this is what is happening.

I am using Fitbit and Basis is what I really need. I think by next year we will have something along the lines that Basis promised.

[aaronem]

My Basis band is actually the second revision of the hardware ("Basis Carbon Steel" vs "Basis B1"). If you're thinking about buying, I definitely recommend avoiding the 1.0 version, which uses a rather bizarre custom band arrangement that apparently has a nasty habit of falling apart under heavy load; the Carbon Steel version takes a standard 26mm watch band.

And I can't really knock Basis on the hardware score; the device itself is actually quite nice, from build quality to resilience to battery life. Their web UI's not bad, too, but what I really need is an API to pull that data out and integrate it with everything else I'm logging, and it just doesn't seem like they give a damn about publishing something stable, nor as far as I can tell have they ever.

On the whole, I'm pretty equivocal. On the one hand, the Basis device is excellent, and while I can't speak to accuracy, it's quite precise. On the other, the software support isn't sufficient, and the organization doesn't give any indication of being motivated to fix that. I'm not sorry I spent $200 on a Basis band, but you might be; think it over carefully.

[aaronem]

Make that $150; they've knocked fifty bucks off the price since I got mine a month ago. I wonder if they're about to rev the hardware again.

[frio]

I got really excited about Basis! It looked to tick a _lot_ of my boxes, but I decided I'd hold out on one until there was a published API. I hadn't checked in in a while; I'm sad to hear it's still missing.

[mikeswiss]

Oh man i really wanted a basis to replace my boddy bugg, it seemed like it had everything to do well in that space.