Features

Today — steps against the daily goal on a ring, distance, calories and percent of the goal.
By hour — a chart of today's steps hour by hour.
Week — steps for the last seven days and the daily average.
Background counting — syn-health --track starts with the session and keeps counting while the app is closed; it exits by itself on devices without a pedometer.
Settings — daily goal, step length and weight (distance = steps × step length; calories ≈ 0.5 kcal per kg of body weight per km), app language.
Local data — history in ~/.local/share/synshell/health/steps.json, settings in ~/.config/synshell/health.toml; nothing leaves the phone.
14 languages — follows the system or the language chosen in the app.

Settings

Requirements

A phone with a Qualcomm SLPI pedometer, read through the platform's sensor source /usr/lib/syndroid/sensors-source. Without one the app shows the saved history and a note that there is no pedometer.

Install

Arch Linux (AUR) — x86_64 and aarch64. syn-health is part of the synshell-mobile package (phone shell, modem, calls, SMS, NFC, compass):

yay -S synshell-mobile-bin      # prebuilt
yay -S synshell-mobile-git      # built from source

Depends on synshell-core. From source: cargo build --release -p syn-health in the synshell repository.

Command line

syn-health                                  # the app
syn-health --track                          # background step counter (no window)
syn-health --screenshot out.png --settings  # window snapshot (main page or settings)
SYN_HEALTH_DEMO=1 syn-health                # writes a demo week of steps — use a separate XDG_DATA_HOME

Part of synshell

syn-health is one of the applications of synshell — a Wayland desktop environment in Rust for computers and phones, built on the syngui UI framework.

License

GPL-3.0-only

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