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Pairing

A Bluetooth Smart heart rate sensor or a mobile device (smartphone, tablet) has to be paired with your M200 for them to function together. Pairing only takes a few seconds and ensures that your M200 receives signals from your sensors and devices only and allows disturbance-free training in a group. Before entering an event or race, make sure that you do the pairing at home to prevent interference from other devices.

Pair a mobile device with your M200

If you've done the setup for your M200 with a mobile device, your M200 has already been paired. If you did the setup with a computer and would like to use your M200 with Polar Flow app, please pair your M200 and mobile as follows:

Before pairing a mobile device:

  • Do the setup at flow.polar.com/start as described in chapter Set up your M200.
  • Download the Flow app from the App Store or Google Play.
  • Make sure your mobile device has Bluetooth turned on and airplane mode/flight mode is off.

Please note that you have to do the pairing in the Flow app and NOT in your mobile device's Bluetooth settings.

To pair a mobile device:

  1. On your mobile device, open the Flow app and sign in with the Polar account that you created when you set up your M200.
  2. On the M200, press and hold the LEFT button.

    OR

    On the M200, go to Settings > Pair & sync > Pair & sync devices, and press and hold the RIGHT button.
  3. Touch your device with M200 is displayed. Touch the mobile device with your M200.
  4. Pairing is displayed on the M200.
    • Android users: You'll get a pairing request on your mobile. You might have to open it by swiping down from the top of the screen and by tapping the notification. Then tap PAIR.
  5. Confirm on other dev. xxxxx is displayed on your M200. Enter the pin code from the M200 to the pairing request on the mobile device, and tap Pair/OK.
    • Android users: You might have to open the pairing request by swiping down from the top of the screen and by tapping the notification.
  6. You'll see Pairing on your M200, and if the pairing is succesful, it will move on to Syncing with your mobile device.

 

Pair a Heart Rate Sensor with your M200

When you're wearing a Polar Bluetooth Smart heart rate sensor that's paired with your M200, the M200 does not measure heart rate from the wrist.

There are two ways to pair a heart rate sensor with your M200:

  1. Wear the moistened heart rate sensor as instructed in the heart rate sensor user manual.
  2. On the M200, go to Settings > Pair & sync > Pair & sync devices, and press and hold the RIGHT button.
  3. Touch the heart rate sensor with your M200.
  4. Pairing is shown during pairing and Completed is shown after the pairing is done.

OR

  1. Wear the heart rate sensor as instructed in the heart rate sensor user manual.
  2. Start a training session as described in chapter Start training.
  3. Touch the heart rate sensor with your M200.
  4. You'll be prompted to pair your M200 with your heart rate sensor. You'll see, for example, Pair Polar H7.... Accept the pairing request by pressing the RIGHT button.
  5. Pairing is shown during pairing and Completed is shown after the pairing is done.

Pair a Polar Balance Scale with your M200

There are two ways to pair a Polar Balance scale with your M200:

  1. Step on the scale. The display shows your weight.
  2. After a beep sound, the Bluetooth icon on the scale display starts flashing, meaning that the connection is now on. The scale is ready to be paired with your M200.
  3. Press and hold the LEFT button on your M200. Searching is displayed on the M200.
  4. Pairing is shown on the M200 during pairing, and Completed is shown after the pairing is done.

OR

  1. On the M200, go to Settings > Pair & sync > Pair & sync devices, and press and hold the RIGHT button.
  2. M200 starts searching for your scale. Searching is displayed on the M200.
  3. Step on the scale. The scale display shows your weight.
  4. After a beep sound, the Bluetooth icon on the scale display starts flashing, meaning that the connection is now on.
  5. Pairing is shown on the M200 during pairing, and Completed is shown after the pairing is done.

The scale can be paired with 7 different Polar devices. When the number of paired devices exceeds 7, the first pairing will be removed and replaced.

Remove pairings

Removing pairings according to the following instructions will remove ALL pairings with sensors and mobile devices.

If you have problems syncing your M200 with your mobile device, or if you can't get your heart rate reading from a paired heart rate sensor with a chest strap, you can try to fix the connection by removing the existing pairings and pairing the devices again.

To remove pairings with sensors and mobile devices:

  1. On the M200, go to Settings > Pair & sync > Remove pairings, and press and hold the RIGHT button.
  2. Delete pairings? is displayed. Press the RIGHT button to confirm.
  3. Pairings deleted is displayed when you're done.