Amazon Alexa Integration

• Partner Apps - What is Amazon Alexa?

  Amazon Alexa lives in the cloud and is always getting smarter, delivering new capabilities to your device automatically. The more you use Alexa, the more Alexa adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary, and preferences, with new features continually being added. Ask Alexa to answer questions, hear the news, get weather and traffic reports, control your smart home, and more.

  What can I do with Health Mate integration on Amazon Alexa?

  Integration with Alexa offers Health Mate users more flexibility in how they access and interact with their data, seamlessly integrating these insights into their daily lives.

  Withings Heath Mate users can add this Alexa Skill to up motivation or simply check in with progress. You can ask Alexa about weight trends, how you slept, or ask for stats about activity. 

  If you’re looking to stay in the know without picking up your phone, now Alexa can be there for you to tell you how you’re doing and how you’ve done by day, week, or year.

  Which languages are available on Amazon Alexa?

  The Health Mate skill for Amazon Alexa is currently only available in English.

  Which devices are compatible with Amazon Alexa?

  The Health Mate skill is compatible with:

  • Sleep
  • Activity trackers: Steel HR, Steel, Go
  • Scales: Body Cardio, Body+, Body

• Partner Apps - Linking my Withings account to Amazon Alexa

  To link your Withings account to Alexa, perform the following steps:

  1. Search for Health Mate in your Alexa app or click on this link.
     
  2. Click on Enable.
     
     
  3. Login to your Health Mate account, if you already have one, or create one.
     
     
  4. Choose your user profile.
     Note that Amazon Alexa can only access data of this user profile.
  5. Click on Allow this app.
     
     
  6. Your Withings account has been linked to Alexa.
     
     

  You can start your new skill by saying « Alexa, start Withings » on your Alexa device. Click here to discover how to use Alexa.

• Partner Apps - How can I use the Health Mate skill on Amazon Alexa?

  Your Health Mate skill is able to answer simple and precise questions about activity, sleep, and weight. Note that this is a BETA version at the moment.

  First of all, you need to enable the skill in your Alexa app or on the Alexa web interface. Then, login to your Health Mate account and link your account to Alexa.

  After doing this, you can start saying « Alexa, start Withings ». You’ll then be able to directly access your data asking questions to Amazon Alexa.

  Note that you have to say « Alexa, ask Withings... » before asking your question to Alexa. 

  • Alexa, ask Withings how much weight I have lost this year.
  • Alexa, ask Withings how many steps I have taken this week.
  • Alexa, ask Withings how I slept last night.

  You can also go further by asking these questions:

  • Alexa, ask Withings how much did I weigh last Sunday.
  • Alexa, ask Withings how much weight did I gain since Summer.
  • Alexa, ask Withings if I have reached my step goal yesterday.
  • Alexa, ask Withings how many steps I walked in March.
  • Alexa, ask Withings how long I slept last week.
  • Alexa, ask Withings about my sleep last night.