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Dídac Sabatés
Personal blog · didac.dev/bloghardwareprogrammingproductivity
Dídac Sabatés's personal blog at didac.dev covers hardware, programming and productivity. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post about getting a Withings scale to sync data outside Apple Health. One commenter reports the author got it working over Bluetooth LE with an ESP32, but the code was not shared.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP323 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-03
What Hacker News says?
This came up on HN about a month ago: https://didac.dev/blog/i-made-my-withings-scale-sync-to-home... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550436
Comment linking /blog/i-made-my-withings-scale-sync-to-home-assistant-without-the-cloud
on “New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing”Submitted I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32 as a story · 94 points
HN discussionWhoever wrote https://didac.dev/blog/i-made-my-withings-scale-sync-to-home... apparently got it working with Bluetooth LE and an esp32 chip. Sadly, they didn’t share their code yet, and as I lack their social media options I can’t email them requesting they post it. Perhaps they’ll see this comment, or perhaps someone else will repeat the solution and post it this time — but without the HealthKit path, there’s not m…
Comment linking /blog/i-made-my-withings-scale-sync-to-home-assistant-without-the-cloud
on “New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing”Submitted Show HN: Local Mitsubishi AC Control with ESPHome and an AtomS3 Lite as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The app blocker I made because I kept cheating on Screen Time as a story · 2 points
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