I needed a way to stream my heart rate to Twitch. This is how I did it with web tech stack and Polar H10 heart rate monitor.
I love Oculus Quest and use it a lot as my “fitness outlet” lately (especially due to COVID-19). I did a few streams of my plays using SideQuest just for fun and realized that with my standard setup in OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) I have a lot of screen space “wasted”:
So I decided to “fill-in” one of these black zones with something cool and fun and realized that a real-time heart rate monitor would be the best candidate. Upon some investigation, I found out that there are not that many great “off-the-shelf” solutions for me (free, easy to set up and use with OBS, etc). So I decided to build one real quick…
Product scope
Since I wanted to produce the entire solution within 1 day I needed to cut the scope to the absolute minimum, so here is the “Moscow” (MUst Should COuld Won’t) scope:
- MUST work with my heart rate monitor device (Polar H10) and allow real-time data streaming.
