GUARDO FIT COACH HR SQUARE User Manual

: June 6, 2024
: GUARDO

FIT COACH HR SQUARE MANUAL

Congratulations on purchasing your GUARDO FIT COACH HR SQUARE!
The sports watch with heart rate monitor that counts your steps, indicates how many calories you burn, analyzes your sleep cycle and registers your sports activities thanks to the multisports mode!

STEP-BY-STEP:

Charge your activity tracker.
Download & install the `GUARDO FIT COACH TRACK’ App on Google Play & APP STORE on smartphone OR tablet (compatible APP operating system = iOS 8.0 & above + ANDROID 4.4 & above + Bluetooth 5.0).
Connect your smartphone/tablet with your Fit Coach activity tracker with the App.
Correct time & date will now appear on your watch.
Get started.

ATTACHING THE STRAPS

Insert one pin of the spring bar into a pin hole of the Fit Coach HR Square.
Pull back the quick-release pin and align the spring bar with the opposite pin hole of the watch.
Release the pin. You should hear the two sides lock into place.
Repeat to attach the other end of the strap.

PARTS AND BUTTONS

Main unit
Charging contacts
Removable straps
Color display
Push-button

You can check data using the Push-button (5) at the side:

Press the Push-button (5) to activate screen of the watch. Following info will appear: Date, battery level, Bluetooth indication & time
By swiping the screen left, right, up or down, you navigate to the different interfaces of the watch.
Return to the main screen by pressing the push button (5).

CHARGING THE FIT COACH HR SQUARE

Put the USB plug of the charging cable in a 5V USB power source. Align the charger with the metal charging contacts (3) at the backside of the watch Remarks:

Working time after fully charging the unit is about 20 days.
The battery status can also be checked in the App.

PAIRING THE DEVICE WITH YOUR SMARTPHONE

To connect the Fit Coach, Bluetooth must be switched ON on the smartphone/tablet and the Fit Coach should only be connected via the App, NOT directly via Bluetooth.
Please check in the Bluetooth menu of your smartphone/tablet if the Fit Coach is not listed among the paired devices. If this is the case, you must first disconnect/forget this connection before you can connect the Fit Coach with the App.
To connect the device, you need a compatible mobile phone or tablet. Install the Guardo Fit Coach Track App.

Open the App. First, you need to open je de App you have to swipe two startup screens aside (these are screens of sporting or sleeping people). You then need to give permission to the App when it asks for permission.

Now the App will start searching for the Fit Coach. Activate the Fit Coach screen (this remains active for the longest time in heart rate mode). When the App indicates multiple Fit Coaches, yours is usually the top with the lowest number next to the -.

Press the App screen to select your Fit Coach and wait until the green check mark symbol appears. Then press “BIND”.
The App will now start to synchronize till 100%. Afterwards, the Fit Coach is connected.

Bluetooth-connected range between watch and smartphone/tablet is 5 to 10m max.

Within this range you CAN synchronize your data between smartwatch and phone;
Outside this range you CANNOT synchronize your data.

Once you get within this range again the Fit Coach watch will AUTOMATICALLY re-connect to the selected smartphone/tablet device (Manual synchronization is possible by dragging down the Home screen in the App).

Once the device is connected to the App, the App will automatically display the correct date and time and automatically save and analyze data related to your heart rhythm, activities and sleep status.

If you “UNBIND” the APP from your Fit Coach device, all data will be lost.
If “anti-lost” setting is ON, your Fit-Coach will vibrate when smartphone is out of the Bluetooth range and the connection is lost (up to 10m). It automatically re-connects when you re-enter the Bluetooth range.

Remarks :
! If you wish to terminate the connection between the App and the Fit Coach (UNBIND), ensure that the Bluetooth function is switched off, otherwise all stored data will be lost! !

To synchronize data from the Fit Coach to your App, there must always be a Bluetooth connection between the watch and the App. Make sure that the screen of your Fit Coach is active.

USER SETTINGS

We advise to ALWAYS enter requested data on your profile: Gender Height weight
It can influence the calculation and registration of your daily activity.

We also advise to ALWAYS enter your personal targets: number of steps / day – hours of sleep / night

FIT COACH DISPLAY & INTERFACES

Briefly press the push button (5) to activate the screen or return to the previous interface. Swipe the screen (up / down, left / right) to open different interfaces.

Standby screen

Time / date / battery status / Bluetooth indication

Functions (swiping screen from right to left)

4.1 Sports mode

Press the `sport’ icon to go to sports mode. A number of sports are shown in the list by default. Scroll down to view the other sports.

Tap the arrow next to the sport you want to register. A countdown (3-21-GO) is started and the registration starts.

Via the App you can change the list of sports (remove sports and / or replace them with others)

During the sports registration you can scroll through 3 different screens with data:

Heart rate and heart rate zone
Number of calories burned and steps during this activity
Current speed and average speed *

for sports without distance measurement (such as yoga) only heart rate, heart rate zone and number of calories is displayed.

By pressing the push button once, you pause the registration – press the push- button again and the registration continues.

| Press the push-button for two seconds to end the registration. Then, on the Fit Coach screen, tap the red button with the cross to continue registering or the green button to end the registration.
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| After completing the registration, a summary of the activity is displayed. Scroll down for more
information.

4.2 Heart rate measurement

| Tap the heart to start heart rate measurement. It may take a few moments before the correct heart rate is displayed.
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4.3 Relax

Tap “Relax” to start the breathing exercise. First choose the exercise of 1 or 2 minutes, then tap the arrow at the bottom right and then follow the nstructions on the screen. After the countdown you will receive instructions to breathe in for a few seconds – then a long vibration and instructions for xhalation – short vibration for inhalation, etc … If you want to end the exercise earlier, press the push button.

4.4 Alarm

| When you have set an alarm in the App, you will see it here. If the icon is colored next to the alarm, the alarm is active. Tap on this to switch off thealarm, the icon will turn gray.
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4.5 Music controller

| If this function has been activated via the App, you can control music from your smartphone via the Fit Coach. (If you have multiple music players on the Smartphone, you must select the music player in the App that you want to operate with the Fit Coach). You can start, pause and go to the previous or next song from the Fit Coach. To use this function, the Fit Coach must be connected to your smartphone.
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4.6 Timer

Stopwatch: tap the start button at the bottom right to start the stopwatch. Then a pause button appears at the bottom right with which you can pause the count. In the pause mode, you can tap the start button on the right again to have the stopwatch continue to count, or the stop button on the lower left to stop the counting and reset the stopwatch back to 00: 00.00. It is not possible to register split times.

Timer: tap the hourglass at the top to go to the timer function. By swiping the minutes up or down with your finger, you can set the minutes. To set the seconds, first tap the seconds so that they light up white. When the desired time has been set, tap the start button at the bottom right to start the timer. Then a pause button appears at the bottom right with which you can pause the countdown. In pause mode, you can tap the start button again on the right to continue the countdown, or the stop button on the lower left to stop the count. When the timer expires, the Fit Coach will only vibrate times. Press the push button to stop this.

4.7 Sports record

| If you previously registered sports activities with the Fit Coach, you can find them here. If multiple activities were registered in one day, you can scroll through the list by swiping the screen up or down. Tap an activity to switch between the saved data such as time / steps / distance / calories / heart rate.
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4.8 Setting

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Dial: Tap “Dial” to change the display of the standby screen. You can choose from 4 screens. Scroll up / down to navigate between the different screens. Tap the screen of your choice to select it.
Dimming: Changes the brightness of the screen. Tap on “dimming” to switch between 1, 2 or 3 stars. 1 is low brightness, 3 is high brightness.
About: Displays information about the Fit Coach such as firmware version and MAC address.
Shutdown: Disables the Fit Coach. The Fit Coach can only be switched on again by connecting it with the charging cable.

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Status (from standby screen to swipe from left to right)
Press to activate / deactivate the following functions:

Automatic heart rate: when you switch it off, the Fit Coach will no longer measure the heart rate on its own. You must then manually start a heart rate measurement.

Wrist movement: turn this off if you do not want the screen to light up with wrist movement.

Do not disturb: when this function is activated, you will not receive any notifications on the Fit Coach such as text messages, telephone calls, etc.

Find my phone: to use this function, you must first activate it in the App. When the volume of the mobile phone is switched on and you tap the “find my phone” button on the Fit Coach, your mobile phone will emit a ring tone.

Messages (from top to bottom, swipe from standby screen)

| Here you will find previously received messages. You can scroll through the list of received messages and read them by tapping or deleting the message. If you scroll to the end of the list of messages, you will have the option to delete all messages from the Fit Coach.
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Data (from standby screen swipe from bottom to top)

| Here you will find an overview of the number of steps, total distance traveled and calories of the current day and a weekly total of this data.
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THE APP SOME FACTS

The App consists of 5 main parts: MAIN PAGE DETAILS MULTISPORTS MODE – DEVICE USER

A. MAINPAGE

Shows your ACTIVITY (steps) & SLEEP & HEARTRATE

You can check:

How many steps you made during 1 specific day (24hrs)
Monitor your sleep: will show 3 levels DEEP LIGHT and AWAKE sleep (detects from the moment you go in bed, and from the moment you wake up again)
your heartrate

Always 2 screens available:

By exact figure
By graphs

You switch from screen by ticking on the data screen.

TO UPDATE these data, simply refresh by dragging down the screen with your finger. On top of the screen you see the synchronization status from 0% to 100%. You can SHARE your data on Twitter,

Facebook etc.. by simply pressing

By tapping on “Today” at the top, you can request the data from a previous day.

B. DETAILS

Show your step-, sleep- and heart rate data in a
Weekly
monthly
yearly

statistical view. You can change the time period by clicking on the calendar- icon.

C. MULTISPORTS MODE

See chapter

D. DEVICE

You can switch ON or OFF various ALERTS (call alert, SMS alert, anti-lost alert …)

ALERTS are indicated by VIBRATION on your Fit coach. You can also activate various SETTINGS (wrist sense, auto heart-rate, take photo etc…)

Call alert:
Notification of incoming call with Caller ID. Standard setting is alert after 3 seconds. You can adjust and change.

Sedentary Alert:
Notification when you have been sitting still for too long.

Alarm alert:
Alarm notifications on your wrist/ you will wake up by watch-vibration.

SNS alart:
Notification for activity on Facebook, Whatsapp, …

Music control:
When music control is activated via the APP you can control your music from your smartphone via the Fit Coach watch (pause, play, FFWD, RWD)
Heart Rate Detection: Choose between automatically or manually (heart rate will be measured when checked on your Fit Coach).
Wrist Sense: When ON the device will respond to wrist movement: display will go ON when making wrist movement. Standard this is OFF. When OFF you activate your screen by touching the screen.
More:
Activity mode:

The standard activities that are present in your watch are shown here. A maximum of 3 activities can be selected.

Select the activity you wish to delete:

Android: Press 2 sec. on the activity and then choose “YES” if you are asked if you want to delete it.
Apple: On your phone, slide the activity to the left and choose ‘Delete’.

To add an activity, press . You will then see an overview of all available activities. Select the desired activity and confirm by pressing at the top .

The selected activities are now available on your watch!
When hiking / walking / cycling and hiking is mentioned ‘GPS ON’. These activities allow you to view the route traveled via GPS connection with the GSM. More info on this in chapter ‘6 – Multisport mode’.
Multilanguage environment:
Choose the language displayed on your watch display.
Find My Phonee: When this is activated, press the Fit Coach key to send a notification to your phone.
Heart rhythm interval: Personalized preference of your heart rhythm during exercise.
Do not disturb mode: Turn off notifications for a specific period of time.
Restart the device: To restart your device.
You can also UNBIND your Fit Coach from the App. Attention: Unbinding the Fit Coach will result in loss of data !

E. USER

Adjust the Target settings (for daily steps, daily sleep), update your profile or profile photo.

Select System settings to switch between the metric or imperial system, to see if there is a new update of the App, …
You can also share your data with Google Fit here.

MULTISPORTMODUS

Normal mode: for checking all standard data on your device and on your smartphone App. Sports mode: especially designed for tracking your statistics during your specific workouts.
Press the + sign in the app at the bottom.

You will see 3 different icons:

| Below are the sports for which activation of the GPS function of your smartphone is required: running, walking, cycling & hiking.
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Press “…” at the top to go to the Settings menu. Here you can select your activity and also activate the desired settings.

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Press the “Play” button to start and register your activity.

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Below you will find all other sports / activities that you can select. 15

Select the requested activity!

Weight registration: If desired, you can register your daily weight here.

TROUBLESHOOTING

The Fit Coach is no longer connected to the App.| Shut down all the Apps on your smartphone / tablet. Turn Bluetooth off and on again, open the Fit Coach App and reconnect.
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My smartphone / tablet has a compatible operating system, but when I download the App, I get the notification that my device is not compatible.| You can download and install the app from our website: https://www.guardo.be/fit- coach-hr-square/
The date and time are not correct on my tracker.| You need to connect and synchronize the tracker with
the App. Date and time are automatically adjusted.
I cannot find the app on my iPad.| To download the Fit Coach App on an iPad, you should change the selection at the top of the App Store. Currently, it’s likely to be set to show only Apps for iPad. This selection or filter can be changed to “iPhone only” and then you can find the App.
On my tracker I have a wrench symbol with -02.| This indicates a problem with the heart rate sensor. Please contact support@guardo.be.

SUPPORT

For more information, technical questions and return requests, please contact: support@guardo.be

GUARANTEE

Copyright © Guardo. Guardo is a registered trademark of TE-Group NV. The Guardo brand stands for superior product quality and outstanding customer service. That is why Guardo warrants this product against all defects in material and workmanship for a period of two (2) years from the date of original purchase of the product. The conditions of this guarantee and the extent of responsibility of Guardo under this guarantee can be downloaded from our website: www.guardo.be

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