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I use Tasker to log my weight to a Google Sheets spreadsheet, and just use a dumb scale.

The only piece of technology in my house is a toaster from 1982, and I keep a loaded shotgun next to it just in case it makes a noise I don't recognize.

If you can find an old working Wii Fit Balance Board you can use it as a very accurate Bluetooth scale.

I have a withings and I really like it. Their privacy policy made me feel better about allowing my info on the cloud. You can run it offline (it sends weight via Bluetooth to the app but won't show 7-day trend an scale screen without wifi). I don't mind that, so I leave it disconnected. I don't use a home assistant though so I can't speak to that part.

I have the withings watch also, so I use the app as my catch all health tracker which works well. it's nice to have everything together. Can't speak to any others but I'd recommend withings.

Wait what I thought this was satire at first

I zoomed in on the screen because I just assumed this was a meme.

It doesn't sync to homeassistant, but I use a Xiaomi scale with openScale off of F-Droid. There's a few different scales supported: https://github.com/oliexdev/openScale/wiki/Supported-scales-in-openScale

Can you just get a normal scale? I just have a mechanical one from the last century

I can't help, I wish I could, but I'm curious. Why a smart scale? Why not just any dumb scale from Bed Bath and Beyond?

I got a Xiaomi scale 2 (years ago) and that works with the OpenScale app. It's Free Software. There is a list of supported bluetooth low-energy scales by that project/app.

I think looking at openscale would be worthwhile:

https://github.com/oliexdev/openScale/wiki

Looks like it can push to mqtt? Huh, that's new to me.

Also, if you want HA, there's this:

https://github.com/lolouk44/hassio-addons/blob/master/mi-scale/DOCS.md

Good luck!

Not local, but I’ve been using my withings scale for at least 5 years, and I sync the weights with its home assistant automation from the withings api, then plot the data on a custom health dashboard I made.

I’d love a local alternative, but regardless I haven’t had any problems with my setup.

Quick google search it seems your only options for HA are Xiaomi scales with bluetooth paired to a mcu with esphome.

I have a Xiaomi scale connected through an esp Bluetooth proxy. Works pretty well.

OpenScale works great and kind of does what you want. If you have an old Android phone laying around you can have it persistently connected to a cheap Bluetooth scale. Functional, but at a much have higher power cost than an ESP32 solution. Automated database exports to a local file (on the android device) and Syncthing can move your data around for analysis.

The good folks over at Gadgetbridge might have a solution too, although their list of supported scales looks pretty short.

You might also look into making a project like rmfakecloud to trick your Fitbit device into pushing data to a local server.

Not sure about home assistant though, I've never used it.

I have a withings scale and it's great so far.
Like you, I had a Fitbit one, and I find it sucked and was very unreliable.

It's worth noting that there is a withings home assistant integration

I’ve had a withings scale for like 5 or 6 years, use trendweight.com for a graph, I haven’t had any problems with it besides replacing the batteries every year or so

I don’t have any options for you but make sure you get one that doesn’t use battery when not in use. It’s really annoying replacing those little coin batteries all the time even though you only use it like .001% of the time

I have a cheap $20 1byone scale from Amazon but it’s actually fantastic.

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Ah #HomeAssistant also has an integration for #withings

I have a Wyze scale, it's well made and easy to export the data via email automatically.

Where's that meme about tech enthusiasts and tech employees with a printer gun, where does this guy fall

I'm using the Xiaomi "Mi Body competition 2" together with https://github.com/lolouk44/hassio-addons/tree/master/mi-scale and am reasonably satisfied with it.