Setup harder than necessary and has some surprising limitations
I have a Fitbit Charge 2 and decided to add the Aria scale.  I really like the Charge 2 and would give that a 4 out of 5 rating.<br />The Aria Scale only gets a 2 out of 5 star rating in my book.  It works but has some issues which are enumerated below:<br />1.  Scale is significantly harder than it should be to set up.  If you want to change what router its paired with, that is also a more difficult than it has any right to be.  In general, you are better off using a PC/laptop setting this thing up than using a phone.  However, the PC/laptop must have a wireless network card.  Also, you have to download the setup program and on my laptop, the program window is much smaller than it should be making it a unnecessarily difficult challenge to navigate through the screens and complete the setup process.<br />2.  Unlike the Fitbit watches, the scale doesn't use Bluetooth.  Instead, it relies solely on Wifi.  This means that you can't have your scale too far away from your router/wireless access point.  The last thing I want to have to do is install a wireless access point in my bathroom for a scale.<br />3.  The scale takes longer to determine and display your weight than a normal scale.  The delay isn't enormous but once again it seems like unnecessary, though small, inconvenience.<br /><br />If none of the above issues is a major concern and you want a scale that sync up with your Fitbit then go ahead and purchase.  Otherwise, I'd wait for version 2.0 of the scale.  It seems like they will definitely have to improve the setup process and hopefully the speed which the scale will display your weight.  I'm not sure newer versions of the Aria scale will support blue tooth but who knows, we can always hope that this feature will someday see the light of day.  I suspect that one of the challenges with adding blue tooth in the future is the power consumption - it would either eat through batteries or need to be plugged in.
Rating: 2 stars