Connect your Polar
Polar connects to freddy through two separate authorizations: a history sync and a live sync. Connecting both gives you the most complete picture of your Polar data. You can connect them in either order, and you can connect just one if you prefer.
Why two authorizations
Polar runs two versions of its data service, and each is good at a different job.
- History sync pulls in years of your past data. When you connect it, freddy backfills your old sleep, training, and heart rate records so your history is there from day one.
- Live sync keeps freddy up to date going forward. As your Polar device syncs new sleep and workouts, Polar notifies freddy and the new data flows in automatically, with no manual refresh needed.
Live sync also covers a few Polar features that only the older service provides, such as SleepWise and cardio load. History sync adds extra data the newer service exposes, such as skin temperature and detailed heart rate samples.
Connecting both is the recommended setup. If you only connect one, freddy still works, you just get either the deep history or the automatic updates, not both.
Connecting Polar
Both history sync and live sync are available to everyone. You connect them from the Polar tile in your dashboard, in either order.
- Sign in to freddy.
- On the dashboard, find the Polar tile in your integrations list.
- Click Connect. freddy sends you to Polar to sign in and authorize access.
- First Polar screen (live sync). Polar shows a consent screen asking you to allow freddy to read your data. It lists a single permission. Review it and approve.
- Polar sends you back to freddy. The Polar tile now shows live sync as connected.
- To add the history grant, click Connect on the Polar History row of the Polar tile. freddy sends you to Polar again.
- Second Polar screen (history sync). This consent screen lists several read permissions, one for each kind of data freddy can pull, such as sleep, training, activity, and heart rate. freddy only ever requests read access. Nothing is written to your Polar account. Review the list and approve.
- Polar sends you back to freddy. The tile now shows both history sync and live sync as connected, and freddy begins backfilling your past data in the background. Most data lands within a few minutes, though a long history can take longer.
You sign in to the same Polar account both times. The two authorizations are independent, so approving one does not affect the other.
If the screens look different
Polar updates its consent screens from time to time, so the exact wording or the number of permissions listed may not match this article precisely. That is expected. As long as you are signing in to your own Polar account and the permissions are all read access, it is safe to approve. If a screen asks for something that looks wrong, or you are unsure, do not approve it and contact us at support@freddy.coach.
What data freddy reads
With both authorizations connected, freddy reads your sleep, training sessions, daily activity, nightly recharge, continuous heart rate, heart rate intervals, skin temperature, fitness tests, planned training, and Polar's SleepWise and cardio load insights. freddy only reads data. It never writes anything back to Polar.
Everything freddy stores is encrypted at rest and served only to the AI assistant you have connected.
Disconnecting
The Polar tile has two disconnect actions in its settings menu, and they are independent:
- Disconnect Polar History removes the history authorization. Live sync keeps running, so new data still flows in. You lose automatic backfill of older data.
- Disconnect live sync removes the live authorization. History sync keeps running. New data still arrives, but through periodic checks rather than instant updates.
Disconnecting either one immediately deletes the data that came from it. Disconnecting both removes Polar from your connected list entirely, and the tile returns to the integrations grid as a fresh "Connect Polar" tile.
You can also remove freddy's access from the Polar side at account.polar.com under your account's connected apps.
Need help?
Email support@freddy.coach, or message us in-app at freddy.coach/app/chat.