Oura

Oura is a company that makes a wearable ring for tracking fitness, sleep and other health metrics.

What can I beemind with Oura?

Right now, there are three options:

  • Sedentary time
  • Sleep
  • Steps

If there's another metric you'd like to beemind, tell us more about it and how you'd like it to be graphed!

I can see data in the Oura app, but Beeminder isn't picking it up

Sometimes it seems that the sync to their server can be a bit sticky. We've found that it helps to force quit the app (not just back out of it), and then open it up again. This usually prompts a sync with both your ring and Oura's servers, making the data available via the API for Beeminder.

One thing that would be helpful to check is whether the data is showing up in Oura's web dashboard. If not, that probably means the app hasn't synced with the server.

If you've tried that and it doesn't seem to help, get in touch! We'll try to figure out whether the problem is on our side or Oura's.

Oura sample goal setup

  1. Head to create a new goal.
  2. Click the Oura icon to start a new goal using Oura data.
    Oura icon, a circle with a line above it
  3. Next, you need to choose what you want to track. For this walkthrough, we're going to choose "Less Sedentary Time", creating a Do Less goal. The "Sleep" and "Steps" metric create Do More goals. Once you've picked your metric, decide how much you want to do/how much you want to be allowed per day. I want to spend fewer than 10 hours inactive each day, so I'd set my rate to 10 hours per day.

    If you want to start off with some extra buffer, make sure to tick the button marked "Start with extra leeway". I've started off with 4 days of extra buffer here, to give me some wiggle room as I get used to the goal.

    Beeminder + Oura: I pledge to track... and a dropdown with the option "Less Sedentary Time" selected, followed by the rate setting, here set to "At most 10 hours per day". Below that, a button marked "Start with extra leeway" is checked, and the text below says "Start with 4 days until you have to make progress on this goal". Finally, a button says "Connect to Oura".
    To go on to the next step, hit the button marked "Connect to Oura".
  4. You should be redirected to the Oura webpage, where you can read through the options Beeminder is requesting and pick which information to give us. Make sure that at least the metric you want to track is checked, e.g. "Sleep, readiness and activity data" if you want to track Sedentary Time. It may be best to give all permissions if you might want to make other goals with Oura in future.

    Once you've made your choices, click "Accept" to get re-directed back to Beeminder with those permissions locked in.
  5. Give your goal a brief name. If you want, you can also write a short description with more information.

    Shows the "Give your goal a name" page, with "onthemove" entered in the first box, showing how it creates the goal's URL. Below there's a box with the description entered, saying "Less sedentary time!"
    Click "Continue" to proceed!
  6. Finally, choose your initial pledge. This is the amount you will pay the first time you derail on the goal. After derailing, the pledge will increase by default — use the dropdown below to control how high it goes by selecting the cap. In the example below, I have chosen to start at a $5 pledge, which will increase each time I derail, until it reaches $270 — the pledge cap. (To read more about pledges and payments, check out some FAQs!)

    If you want to start out with a sort of trial period, you can choose to start the goal at $0. If you do that, the pledge will automatically increase to $5 after seven days. If you derail before that, it will also increase to $5.

    Screenshot of the "Starting Stakes" screen. The text says "Your pledge will increase each time you derail until you reach your pledge cap (which you can adjust below)", with a demonstration below showing the pledge progression: 5, 10, 30, 90... to the pledge cap, which currently shows $270. Below, a checkbox button allows you to choose to "Hold the pledge at $0 for 7 days while I get my feet wet"
  7. And that's it! My goal's created. My current limit is +37:29 minutes of sedentary time over the next few days, keeping in mind my data so far today and my rate. You can check the Statistics tab of your goal to see more.

    shanaqui's "onthemove" graph, showing a limit of +37:29 today.
    Here's my "Hard Cap By Day" table from the statistics tab:
    shanaqui's Hard Cap By Day table for the above graph, showing the deltas and totals allowed on each date.
    The delta shows how much I could add today without derailing (+37:29), and the cumulative total I could add by each date in order to be safe. For instance, if I somehow rack up a cumulative total of more than 60 hours of sedentary time by Saturday 17th, I'll derail!


Keywords: autodata integrations, fitness trackers, step counters, wearables

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