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[AuntieParticle]

An Xbox app to track calories in several games including YSFE 2012. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/kinect/kinect-play-fit I just downloaded it and it looks great! Free in the Xbox apps Marketplace.

[Franco De Paw]

Did you do anything special to get it to recognize YS:FE 2012? I isn't seeming to pick up YS for me.

[AuntieParticle]

No, I was just signed into Xbox Live and it pulled activity in from YSFE 2012. It didn't get all the calories since it only seems to go back a limited amount of time. But I was delighted it picked up any passed calories.

Edit:
I forgot to mention that this app is only available in the US at this time. It's coming to other countries soon according to Major Nelson's blog.

I fooled around with the app a bit more today. While it pulled in past calories burned from YSFE 2012 for the month of June it has not added anything for July. It didn't add in yesterday's or today's YSFE 2012 workout either. I played a little Happy Time Theater this morning and it added those calories in just fine. So clearly there are some issues to be worked out.

[memoonamike]

Nop I do nothing.

[AuntieParticle]

I'm having more success with YSFE 2012 calories being added to PlayFit, though it's a bit of a crap shoot. PlayFit doesn't seem to like floor exercises. I get only 2 calories after doing ABS 100% (E) which is all floor exercises. Sometimes the classes register and sometimes they don't. I find I have better luck getting dance classes or cardio boxing classes to register calories with PlayFit if I do them before doing other workouts or activities.

[Franco De Paw]

I really don't think it is the Playfit app that is the issue. I think it is the funky (inept) way YS:FE stores and forwards information. Today, I worked out for 1 hour and 40 minutes. Went to yourshape Center Dashboard and it Says I burned 80 calories for 22 minutes. This 80 calories is what PlayFit added to my calorie count. (Imagine that yourshape center dashboard doesn't show 78 minutes of Workouts).

They (ubis backend) are just handling data in some weird way. Total all time total calories on Dashboard and Xbox always seem to be the same (correct), but when it comes to the breakdown of classes, exercises and activities it gets all gummed up.

I have played 4 Playfit enabled games now YS is the only one that seems to be hit or miss.

[AuntieParticle]

I have played several PlayFit enabled games as well, including Leela, Star Wars, Once Upon a Monster, & Happy Time Theater and they are all pretty much hit and miss for me. Sometimes they work well and sometimes they don't work with PlayFit a all. A number of other people I have communicated with on the issue are having the same or similar problems as I am with games other than YSFE 2012. You are very lucky if you are only experiencing issues with YSFE 2012. Clearly, PlayFit has issues of it's own and there are no doubt issues within each individual game that cause a combined problem.

[GameGrill]

I forgot to mention that this app is only available in the US at this time. It's coming to other countries soon according to Major Nelson's blog.

I had no problems getting PlayFit, and I live in the Netherlands, I don't know if that means it's available in all of Europe though. And thanks for pointing me it's way by the way, it's an interesting app, though a tad buggy still (it claims to track Big League Sports in that link in your first post, but it doesn't ).

[Adorkable_]

Playfit has only been buggy so far for YSF for me as well. I tend to play a lot of the block breaking exercise on it and it only registered about half of the calories burnt, not even actually since I had burnt 200+ and it didn't even pick up 100.

I've hit 400 in 3 titles so far so I got Star Wars today to get a fourth title up there. I'm assuming the Galactic Dance Off would be the one that Playfit would do best with?

[AuntieParticle]

There are a couple of threads about PlayFit in the Using Kinect section of the XBox Support Forums. There is also another thread in XBox LIVE General Discussions Forum "Kinect PlayFit launches today". You all may find them helpful, and may want to add your voice to the discussions/questions.