Active8rlives BUDDY STEP COUNTER User manual

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Acvity Tracker

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Acv8rlives
We are a healthcare company. Our mission is to empower you to take care of
your health and that of your family by self-management through self-
monitoring.
From tracking levels of physical acvity, weight, food intake, cardiovascular
and lung funcon, to a new generaon of at-home tesng for long-term lung
disease, we provide the devices and web-based tools to help you be acve,
eat well and stay healthy. Learn more at www.acv8rlives.com

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Summary
Please read this manual carefully before you use
your new device so that you do not injure
yourself or others, or cause damage to your new
device through improper use.
The Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter is a simple electronic wearable device, which allows
you to monitor your physical acvity and energy expenditure—especially useful as part of
an exercise schedule, overall health and wellbeing or weight loss programme.
It sends informaon to your private FREE Acv8rlives account via a USB connecon with
your PC. You can see how well you are doing and keep track of your health and wellbeing.
You can stay commied to your goals by forming groups with other members of your
family, club, school or by joining our online communies. By working together in groups,
we are more successful in achieving our health goals. Acv8rlives is designed to help you
achieve this.
The Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter does a lot more than just count your steps—it helps
you understand how your acvity changes throughout the week. It measures your acvity
and calculates your energy expenditure in calories, the distance you have walked or run
and the total acve me during each day.
When you view your data with either the Acv8rlives website or App, this device will help
you to work out how close to your target values you are at any given me. This manual
shows you how to quickly set-up your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter — it will take just 5-
10 minutes if you follow this guide through.
Oponal: Included is a FREE Smartphone App, which also tracks your food intake via our
photo-based Food Diary and these images are sent directly to your Free Acv8rlives
account. Your acvity, body composion and food intake can then all be viewed on a single
page. Talk about cause and eect—very powerful.
If in any doubt about your health, please consult your medical team rst and follow their
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Self-monitoring your parameters of health and those of your family, is a powerful way to
maintain your health and wellbeing, especially if you have a long-term health condion —
and 42% of us adults do.

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Health and Safety Noces
WARNINGS: The Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter is NOT waterproof. Do not
submerge it in water.
Seek advice from your Doctor about any long-term condion. This device should
not be used to make a primary diagnosis.
 This device is not a toy. Only recommended for children over 7 years of age.
 Use a so, microber cloth for cleaning. Don’t use harsh cleaning products as
these will cause damage to your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter. Don’t allow
sharp objects to scratch the screen of the LCD Display as this may damage it.
 Do not allow your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter to be subjected to excessive
forces, shocks, dust, temperature changes or humidity over the range specied.
Harsh physical treatment may stop your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter from
working properly. Don’t expose your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter to direct
sunlight for long periods of me.
 Don’t remove the back cover and tamper with the internal components. If you
do, you will invalidate your warranty and may cause irreparable damage. Other
than the replacement of the baeries (CR2032), there are no user serviceable
parts.
 Take precauons when handling all baery types and dispose of baeries
properly. Remove the baeries if you are planning to store the device for a long
period of me. We hope you use your device for many years of course, but long
periods of storage with the baeries in place may damage the device and will
cause the baeries to discharge. Only use the baery type recommended in this
manual. Do not touch the exposed electronic circuits, as there is a danger of
electric shock.
 When disposing of this product, ensure that it is collected separately for special
treatment and not as normal household waste.
 The measurement funcons built into the Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter are
not meant to substute professional measurement or industrial precision
devices. Values produced by the unit should be considered as reasonable
representaons only.
 The technical specicaons for this product and the contents of the user manual
are subject to change without noce.
 Contact Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter does not work properly.

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Your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter
Your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter has several parts, the LCD DISPLAY, Baery
Compartment, BUTTONS, USB connector. It is also supplied with a CR2032 baery in the
Baery Compartment, mini screw drive to open the Baery Compartment, Lanyard
Connector, Wrist Strap, a Neck Protector and Lanyard.
Open Baery Compart-
ment with Mini Screw
Driver
BUTTONS
RESET MODE SET MEMORY
Lanyard Connector
LCD Display
Baery compartment
USB Connector
Neck Protector
Lanyard

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Adding the Baeries
Your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter uses one CR2032 baery, which is supplied in the
Baery Compartment. This is a non-rechargeable baery and no aempt should be made to
recharge it. To acvate your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter you need to pull out the plasc
strip that is protruding from the baery compartment. If the LCD Display does not come on
you may need to open the Baery Compartment to ensure the baery is sing correctly, in
order to make the necessary electrical connecon.
To open the Baery Compartment on the reverse side of the device, use the mini screw
driver provided and insert 1 x CR2032 baery with the wring uppermost in the baery
housing. Replace the cover. The LCD DISPLAY should now light up.
If not used, it will power o aer about 30 seconds. A faulty operaon would also make it
power o.
Remove the baeries if you are planning to store the device for a long period of me. We
hope you use your device for many years of course, but long periods of storage with the
baeries in place may damage the device and will cause the baeries to discharge.
Replace the set of baeries when the baery low symbol appears on the LCD DISPLAY.
During the baery exchange the data stored in the memory of the monitor is well protected
and will NOT be lost.
Note: Do not tamper or aempt to open the unit in which the
baery is housed, your warranty will be invalidated. Substances
contained within the baery may damage the environment or hu-
man health if handled and thus is a risk of electrical shock or burns.
When disposing of this product, ensure that it is collected separate-
ly for special treatment and not as normal household waste.

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How does the Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter
work?
Now to use our Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter! Aach your step counter to your belt, hang
it around your neck, wear it in your sock or in our arm/ankle strap when you are cycling. It
does not maer where you aach it as long as you wear it all day. Pockets are not great for
step counters—we forget about them and they end-up in washing machines. For this reason
and also the BUTTONS on the reverse side get pressed and reset, it is recommended that you
DO NOT wear your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter in pockets.
The Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter has a 3-axis accelerometer chip and a microprocessor,
which measures how you move (accelerate) in three dimensions and it uses this informaon
to calculate the number of steps you take. You will noce that the display does not always
update as you move (it has a 10 step lter to eliminate inaccuracies due to non acvity-
related movement and bumps) and may even go blank. It has a sleep mode to make the
baery last longer but will wake up and update from me-to-me or if you connue moving.
It also records how much me you spend exercising. Useful as part of a rehabilitaon
programme.
If you hold the Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter in your hand as you walk, you will see just
how accurately it can “sense” your steps and starts counng these aer you have taken 10
consecuve steps. Another ability of the Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter is that it will count
and store your steps for your last 7 days so that you can upload these at any me.
Calories are calculated based on your stride length and your weight. The values are
approximate but gives you a useful indicaon of how much eort it takes to burn o the food
you have eaten. You will be able to measure how much physical eort it takes to burn-o
even 200-300 Kcal—talk about an incenve to reduce your intake of “junk” calories (a
chocolate mun at Starbucks is 500 calories—that takes a lot of walking to burn this snack
o!)
Again, an approximate distance value is calculated for you based on your steps and your
average stride length. Useful for esmang how far you walk at work or at school, for
example.
Steps, distance, calories and acvity me are all saved to your Acv8rlives Buddy Step
Counter and can be uploaded to your personal Acv8rlives account. This is covered in later
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OK, let’s get started with the PC Setup
This guide will instruct you how to:
1Install the Acv8rlives Service Link to your computer
or PC;
Instruct you how to operate, use and take care of
your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter and connect to
your computer or PC; and
How to take roune readings and upload directly to
your Acv8rlives account via your computer or PC.
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If you follow these direcons sequenally, it will take you about 5-
10 minutes to learn how to measure your physical acvity and
view your data.
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Set-up for Windows or OSX Computers via USB
Connecon
The Acv8rlives Service Link is designed to run on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows
7 and 8 and Apple’s Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion and later versions of its OSX.
It is strongly recommended that before you install the Acv8rlives Service Link that you
bring your computer’s operang system fully up-to-date with the latest version of its
operang system. You will need an internet connecon throughout.
PCs running Microso’s Windows: If you have not already done so, go to the START menu
and navigate to Windows UPDATE. From there, and depending on the version of the
Windows operang system, you can install all of the updates required to make your system
current.
This is good pracce for all Windows PC users and will make the installaon and operaon
of the Service Link a great deal easier for you if a lile me is spent doing this before
proceeding.
A special note for Windows XP users. We all loved XP—it was stable and simple—but it has
now been le behind by the developers at Microso and you may need to upgrade your
operang system:
 If you are running XP, it must be updated to at least Service Pack 2. This free
upgrade can be found on the Microso support pages. With Windows XP, go to
your Start Buon (boom le) and to WINDOWS UPDATE to automacally update
your system.
Once you have got your Windows PC up-to-date, we can get started. Worth spending the
me doing this though—as it is good pracce and keeps your PC in good working order.
Geng your computer up-to-date…..
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Creang a FREE Acv8rlives Account using your PC
You can use the great online facility we have
created to help you work in groups, to increase
your movaon and to help you achieve your
goals.
Joining is FREE FOR LIFE.
To create your FREE Acv8rlives account, go to
our website: www.acv8rlives.com and select
the Register now and start FREE Wellness
Check buon which appears on the
homepage. If you already have an account,
select Login from the top menu bar to open
your account.
When you choose the Register now and start
your FREE Wellness Check link, you will be
presented with a series of screens that will take
you through the registraon process and will
also give you valuable informaon about your
health status.
Go to
www.acv8rlives.com
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Some basic details are needed for the calculaons used for your Body Mass Index, the calories
you use and the distances you walk.
You can create your own target values for steps and weight to. Acv8rlives will help you to
understand whether your acvity levels and weight are in the “healthy” zones. Simply follow
along as the soware guides you.
Stride length: a simple way to calculate your stride length is presented on page 33. A default of
60cm (24 inches) is a prey good seng for most average sized adults.
If you also track your lung and heart health, there is a screen in which you can enter these
details. You can skip these secons if you do not track your heart rate, oxygen saturaon, Peak
Flow or Forced Expiratory Volume at 1 second (FEV1).
Contact Acv8rlives for more informaon if this is of interest to you or your family.
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Your Account
Once you have worked through the Registraon process on the website, you can
review and edit your details and parameters used to programme the Acv8rlives
Buddy Step Counter in your Acv8rlives ACCOUNT secon.
You can also upload an image to represent yourself so that your friends know
who you are when you post messages.
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Your Targets
You can change your targets for steps, weight and lung funcon in the YOUR
TARGETs tab.
Make your targets achievable and realisc for your current level of tness.
These individual targets can easily be changed should you nd that you have
set your goals too low. We also suggest making small changes to your lifestyle
habits and building up to more challenging targets as your level of tness
changes with me.
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Downloading Service Link via Internet to your PC
The Service Link is a small soware programme, which we use to upload and download
informaon to and from devices.
Aer you have logged into your Acv8rlives account, go to the HELP link at the top of each
page www.acv8rlives.com/help
There you will nd a page with the latest version of our Instrucon Manuals, the latest versions
of the Service Link soware and details about where to contact us for support and help.
If you nd the installaon process dicult, there are Help Videos on our website
www.acv8rlives.com/informaon/demovideos or do call us during oce hours (9am—
6pm) on UK [phone] and we can help you over the telephone and by logging into
your computer using TeamViewer.
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Note: Do make sure that your computer is up-to-date with all its operang updates, either
Windows or OSX before you start the process to install the Service Link Soware.
To install the Service Link Soware, click on the link for the Service Link. This will iniate the
installaon process. Depending on the anvirus protecon soware you have, our soware
may trigger various messages and warning about installing soware.
Please go ahead and install the soware—it has no viruses and there is no malware embedded
within it. Click Next to proceed with the installaon.
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This Service Link Soware icon will sit on the desktop of
your PC and when you want to upload your data from
your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter you will need to
double click to open the soware programme.
Once the installaon process has been started, the soware will automacally install all of
the services you need to run it and to download data from any of our devices: the Buddy
Step Counter USB, BuddyBand, Peak ow meter. Just work through the installaon Wizard
and the soware will do everything for you.
It make take a few minutes. Please be paent - allow the auto-installaon process to
work. At mes it may seem as if nothing is happening but watch for the processor light on
your computer to see that the soware is busy being installed.
Downloading Service Link to your PC connued
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Downloading the Service Link
For Windows Vista
Windows Vista has its own set of oddies, which were removed when Microso brought out
its successors, Windows 7 and Windows 8. If you are sll using Vista, there are some changes
which may have to be made to enable you to edit users.
1. First, go to the Start Menu and select Control Panel.
2. Next, chose to see the opons in the “Classic View.”
3. Open the page called Users.
4. There is an opon which is generally checked (selected) called “Turn User Account
Control on or o.”
5. This takes you to another window, where you simply unck the checkbox to disable
UAC.
ONCE COMPLETED, REBOOT YOUR WINDOWS or APPLE PC FOR
THESE CHANGES TO TAKE EFFECT.
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Once you have downloaded the Service Link, you
must link it to your FREE Account on Acv8rlives.
Open the soware icon that will be in your
programmes or on your desk top.
Here, you can connect various devices and you can
also record your Wellness and severity of Cough as
part of your respiratory health if you wish.
Connecng to your Acv8rlives Account.
Click on MANAGE USERS to display the window
below.
Click on ADD and enter your Nick Name (screen
name), USERNAME and PASSWORD. This connects
you to your account via your PC.
Using the Service Link on Your Computer
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