Garmin Index S2, Smart Scale with Wireless Connectivity, Measure Body Fat, Muscle, Bone Mass, Body Water% and More, Black (010-02294-02)

Game-Changer for Tracking Health and Fitness!
The Garmin Smart Scale is hands down one of the best fitness tools I’ve ever used! It goes way beyond just measuring weight — it tracks body fat, muscle mass, water percentage, and more, giving me a complete picture of my health. The accuracy is impressive, and it syncs seamlessly with the Garmin Connect app, making it easy to monitor progress over time.I love how it recognizes multiple users automatically, so everyone in the family can use it without hassle. The sleek design fits perfectly in my bathroom and feels sturdy and high-quality underfoot. It’s motivated me to stay on track with my fitness goals like never before.If you’re serious about understanding your body composition and tracking your health data in detail, this smart scale is a must-have. Highly recommend!

Garmin? More like Garbage.
It took me about 4 hours of troubleshooting (I’m an engineer and I never surrender) to finally figure out that this scale CANNOT connect to Wi-Fi on a 5 GHz frequency. It can ONLY connect to Wi-Fi on a 2.4 GHz frequency (which many people don’t even use anymore!).Garmin’s documentation fails to mention this! Searching the internet doesn’t help much either, because there are thousands of people posting about Wi-Fi connectivity issues, but there are never any answers. Everyone just assumes they got bad hardware and gives up.I’ve never even heard of another product that had this issue, especially in 2023. Why Garmin??The scale won’t even work until it’s connected to Wi-Fi. For everyone on 5 GHz frequency, most people will never figure out the problem, it doesn’t even matter how much searching they do. Garmin is basically just shipping bricks to these people with no explanation.I had to reconfigure my router to expose both frequency bands just to connect this Garmin. After I did, we had to wait like an hour while the software updated.And I guess my wife & I must have sync’d our watches and stepped on the scale in the wrong order, because the scale started sending my weigh-ins to HER watch every time. Her weigh-ins are sent to my watch OR her watch, seemingly at random! (Thankfully it’s a closed software issue, so I can’t waste 4 more hours troubleshooting this one.)Even if we could get it to work correctly, this scale doesn’t let you just stand on it. You have to tap it with your foot (just strong enough) first, wait ~5 seconds, and THEN stand on it. It’s just an annoying usability hassle every morning, why on earth can’t we just stand on it directly??The lesson I learned is that it’s best not to overcomplicate the little things you do every single day. We replaced this Garmin with a cheap $20 scale that just weighs us when we stand on it, and it’s great.Garmin’s watches are some of the most impressive, well-tested, and reliable electronics in any category, right up there with Boeing, even superior to Apple when it comes to testing and reliability. I never thought I’d have these kind of problems with any Garmin product. But these scales aren’t contract-grade for government and military use (like the watches are), so I’m guessing Garmin simply has FAR lower standards when it comes to engineering/testing of purely consumer-grade products…If you happen to be using 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, or if you’re shipped different hardware than what we received, this scale might work great out of the box and maybe you’d be really happy with it like some of the other reviewers are (who knows). Personally I’d say don’t gamble on this thing working correctly, just stick with something simple, and update your bodyweight in the Garmin watch manually every once in a while.My wife & I still love Garmin, we both wear & use the watches every single day, and we’ll probably still be wearing Garmin 40 years from now, but we both hated this scale like nothing we’ve ever bought before. It’s probably the worst product I’ve bought in 10+ years. (But please still buy a Garmin watch if you haven’t already, it’s amazing technology, and the community/challenges could seriously change your life if you’re currently struggling with health/fitness.)

Overpriced, but the only one that works with Garmin Connect
I like this scale. I have to ding it one star because this is the only scale Garmin connect will work with. I believe most of the stats are bunk, but if you’re looking for a simple way to upload your daily weight to Garmin Connect, this is the one you have to get. Step on it and forget it. It even gives you the weather.I don’t believe this is great value for the money as you can get connected digital scales for $25. But if need one that works with Garmin Connect, this is it.Although I don’t use it for this purpose, I got bizarre body fat readings at first. Then I figured out that I could set a body fat % and it would use that as a base.

Is so inacurate, I wouldn’t bother, there’s better ones for €40

Facile à installer et à utiliser. C’est garmin…..

After purchasing these from Amazon UK, I received an invoice from FedEx for £39.07 for import duty, argued that Amazon were the importer but they wouldn’t budge and I’ve had to pay this. The scales look good, weigh accurately but as for some of the other features I’m very dubious of their accuracy. For instance if my weight goes up by 1Kg after the weekend it shows my muscle weight being higher by a corresponding percentage which of course is nonsense, similarly if my weight goes down. The initial body fat percentages were far higher than the professional machine I’d been using but Garmin say in their literature if you have your own figures from a Dexa machine or similar to manually enter these body percentages and then miraculously it simply mirrors them going forwards, altering the muscle mass as your weight varies week to week. It seems that they know their own machine isn’t accurate – A waste of money if you want to measure performance /gains over a period – according to these scales and the way they work, all I need to do is stuff my face to put on 5Kg and it will say I’ve put on 1-2Kg of muscle, regardless of the body composition.