Hi @apb, Chelsea at Beeminder disconnected the data channel, so that part was solved. And it turns out that yes, Insight Timer can feed data to AppleHealth after all, and from there it can reach Beeminder. So that all sounds good on the surface. However, I think I bumped into one of the bugs you mention (although it may be I just set it up wrong). That is, there appears to be a unit translation failure going on as my data moves from its source in Insight Timer (measured in minutes) and on to its destination in Beeminder (measured in “sessions”).
My goal is to meditate for at least one 5-minute session every day. When I set it up in Beeminder, I chose to make the unit “sessions” and quantity 1, rather than have the unit be “minutes” with a quantity of 5. However, insight Timer only knows about minutes. Somewhere along the path from Insight Timer through Apple Health to Beeminder, the “exchange rate” of 5 minutes = 1 session is being lost. As a result, when Insight Timer reports that I meditated for five minutes, Beeminder appears to hear only the “five” and takes that to be a number of sessions. As a result my tracking line is now asymptotically approaching the vertical, and I am currently way above my yellow brick road and orbiting somewhere around “You can afford to miss 40 days and still not get fined” and on my way to “You must have attained enlightenment several times by now dude, given the fact that you appear to be meditating more than 24 hours a day”. (https://www.beeminder.com/eucleides/meditate5)
I’ve decided to simply archive that original goal completely, and I have created a new one which is based on minutes, not sessions: https://www.beeminder.com/eucleides/meditate I’ve then backfilled with my earlier data, and rebased the x-axis back to my original start date. It seems to have worked, although I’ve no idea what kind of havoc it may be wreaking on my payment level or on whatever hyperbolic discounting algorithm you’re using. If I see a charge for a million dollars on my credit card, I’ll know that the kind of havoc is “vast”. Beelieve me when I say that that would Bee Unbeelievably Beestly.