Use Flic to track water intake in iOS Health app - possible?

mbkjeldsen

Hi all,

new poster, long time reader

I'm trying to find a way to track water intake in the iOS Health app through a Flic click but so far haven't been successful. I have tried a few ideas:

IFTTT
Shortcuts shortcut
Launch Pro
Webhooks
Searching these forums
Searching the web
Considered building my own app (which with my coding skills is preposterous)

but to no avail. Also, I have yet to find an iOS app that can listen for an incoming signal from e.g. an IFTTT Webhook and run in-app to send to Health.

I cannot imagine being the first to think of this so I hope someone inhere has a solution

Anyone?

m.

mbkjeldsen

Hi @isolating - worked, but as you mention, only on unlocked iPhones.

I'll look into the workflow a bit and see, if I can somehow store the requests with a timestamp, at then batch execute them whenever I unlock my phone

Thanks so far,
Michael

mbkjeldsen

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isolating

@mbkjeldsen
It's tricky but this may do what you want. It'll work using flic connected to your iPhone but will have issues if the phone is locked. This is an apple issue.

Create a Shortcut to add data to your health app (e.g. Nutrition data add 100ml on today's date) and give it a name e.g. Water100
On the flic app for iphone set the action to be Safari (open a website in Safari) and give it the URL of:
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Water100
The shortcut will run every time the flic is pressed.
Hope that helps,