[Tangram Factory] Smart Rope - LED embedded Jump Rope - See your fitness data in MID-AIR

Recipient loved the gift. Good features, including a count of reps.

I would use this smart piece of technology at the 24hr fitness after a sauna work out. I found my timing and frequency or revolutions where I jumped next to the line of treadmills superior to none. This device is in my opinion for me showed my focus as well as displaying for me the carrot and the stick (treadmill) verse the digital display counting rope. After sometime and countless revolutions the led's went out over time the trick is not smacking the ground to hard with the rope when jumping in my experience.

Is practical and easy to use I hope it last 🤗

I love fitness and I love gadgets. I was looking forward to mixing up my workouts with a little skipping-based cardio. The rope itself is nicely designed and has smooth bearings and an easy frictionless rotation but for 80 bucks you expect to get some of that cool gadgetry that they describe. All I got was disappointment. First off, the app advertised on the product packaging is deprecated and the "new" app - once you find it - hasn't been updated in quite some time. Although the product claims to be link-able to Samsung Health when you step through that process it proudly proclaims "Coming soon!". Oops. Getting the rope set up and paired with your phone is easy enough. I have a Samsung Galaxy S20. So it's a pretty new phone compatible with everything and includes the greatest and newest bluetooth technology. The initial bluetooth link-up works well enough but then when I stepped more than 6 inches away from the phone - as one might in order to do some skipping, say - the bluetooth connection was lost. I stepped back and placed the rope handle that has the electronics within 6 inches of the phone and the connection came back. The app and the smarts only works when the rope is connected otherwise you get no "credit" for your workout. It's just an expensive "unsmart" rope. "This is rather unworkable" I thought. So I tried my wife's iPhone Xr. Same thing. Connects when close by and any distance causes an immediate disconnect. I contacted TangramFactory help and they suggested resetting the rope and re-pairing which I did but with no change in behavior. I also reset the rope, re-paired and rebooted the phone(s) in various sequences - still no change. I sent the rope back and got a replacement thinking maybe bad hardware. Got the new one. Same thing. So now this one is going back for a refund and I will move on to a competitor's product. Too bad. Save your money and try another smart rope

TL;DR - written instructions included with rope and app are not intuitive and requires a lot of patience. I am no stranger to tech, specifically Bluetooth and all of its troubleshooting varieties. If I had this much difficulty getting this to work, I feel sorry for anyone who isn’t anywhere near as comfortable.What’s really disappointing about this, is that I’ve seen various models of this jump rope in Apple stores for a few years now and I had always been curious but not serious about using it until recently. I know that Apple doesn’t just approve and carry any products on their shelves/site without going through a stringent process. However, I can’t tell if Apple is becoming more lax, bribery is at play here, or if there is any quality follow-up once you get the initial Apple seal of approval.I say this because the pairing process is a nightmarish and from a troubleshooting standpoint the app is not intuitive whatsoever. (I have the LED model) The written instructions included in the box tell you to download the previous app “Smart Gym” and yikes! This is such a generic title/word combo that even this task could lead an unsuspecting user down the wrong path. If you’re the type to just tap on the very first match in your app search results, I urge you to slow down so you don’t download the wrong app. Once you download it, the app directs you to download a separate, “newer” app called “SmartRope”. Cool cool cool, but this is already becoming cumbersome and I haven’t even gotten to the pairing process yet. You know what else really makes this annoying, the fact that in the search results for the first app, this “newer” app was nowhere to be found within the results.I‘ve recently upgraded and updated all my core Apple products: iPhone (12 pro), Apple Watch (6th gen), iPad Pro (4th gen), and an Oura ring (2nd gen) that I have been using for the last year and change. All of them mentioned to emphasize that there is a very low chance of any other product to blame. Without going into too much detail here, my troubleshooting didn’t just include quitting and redone loading the app and turning my BT and phone off/on, but also powering down my other BT devices and moving away from those devices. I also made sure I wasn’t trying to pair from my device’s BT menu instead following the prompts in the app.I swear I think I went to the bathroom, washed hands, cracked ice from an ice tray, poured water all at a leisurely pace before returning to see that the app and the rope eventually paired? The app doesn’t make it clear if the rope is connected since there also seems to be a delay. The app’s UI is cute yet clunky and static... and so it feels like I am getting mixed messages from how the rope is behaving. For example, if you tap on your rope, and go to the button at the bottom “connection settings” the modal/pop-up is titled “smart rope connected” -even when I intentionally turn off my rope, the app still shows this.I’ve also tried to pair this with my new iPad Pro and same issue... (and yes I did uninstall from my phone before trying on my iPad). While I’d like to assume that maybe I have a faulty rope, I see that others are also having similar experiences and I doubt a replacement will solve this issue. I wanted to love Tangram’s smart rope because it’s beautifully designed, and the app looks like it could be useful, especially with the Health integration. But honestly, I found a SkipJoy rope on Amazon that is ~1/3 the price, it immediately connects and syncs my jump/activity data instantly. Sure it’s terribly less glamorous and doesn’t have the Apple health integration but it’s getting the data part done.

The LEDS keep breaking. I really enjoyed the rope because it counted my jumps. The original app was much better than the new one. I stopped using this rope all together to be honest. It’s a very sensitive rope. Awesome while it’s not broken. I returned it the first time and the new rope now doesn’t turn on anymore either. I gave up. Same thing with my brother who had one. Cross ropes it is!

Excellent product

Leider nicht verstellbar aber die Anzeige ist ganz witzig.

Within 2 days stopped working. Just buy a regular jump rope. Not worth the hassle to return.

Moi qui n'aime pas spécialement la corde à sauter, avec ce produit je suis comblé car d'une c'est un objet connecté et l'appli SmartRope c'est un régal et de 2 comme c'est le confinement et que je doit entretenir mon cardio, bingo ! le tour est joué avec cette corde à sautée

Molto bella ma da usare con scarpe da ginnastica essendo la parte centrale molto dura e spessa. Funziona benissimo con app iOS e con Apple Watch!

£80 not wisely spent. Too heavy and feels like doing skipping with an extension cord. LED lights also dont work outdoors. Used it and so cant send back but honestly will just sit on the shelf and replace with more conventional rope.