Fitbit Records Too Many Floors

It s inner altimeter will calculate altitude based on atmospheric pressure.

Fitbit records too many floors.

Put on your tracker and check the number of floors before you begin to walk. Of course the app shows too many floors because it gets its data from the tracker which is wildly miscounting floors. This is the story of how i managed to climb 700 floors without actually climbing 700 floors earning the. Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.

Tap set up a device. In this case there are a couple of things that may be causing your tracker to record extra floors. Thanks for taking the time to report the situation you are experiencing with your charge 3 tracking floors. I measured my stride to set it up and i ve been impressed with how accurate it s been.

Today it said 39 when i know it s only been 7 i ve seen the posts regarding barometric press. The reason i m asking this is because the altimeter that the trackers that count floors have i s a sensor that calculates altitude based on atmospheric pressure. Whenever there is a storm brewing my fitbit seems to claim more floors. Your charge 2 is counting too many floors.

Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters. Use your tracker for a few days and let me know if still tracking extra floors. It s been known to generate extra floors when there are air currents. Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that detects when you go up in elevation.

Walk up the 2 flights in a row trying not to stop at any point. From the fitbit app dashboard tap or click the account icon. I have had my fitbit one since march. The past three days it s registered waaaay too many floors all of a sudden.

Too many floors recorded. If the number of floors counted is significantly off please reply to me so i can determine which steps should we take next. Choose your device and follow the on screen instructions to continue. Once you reach the top of both flights of stairs stop to look at the number counted.

I believe the fitbit tracker uses an altimeter to determine floors by barometric pressure. I just received the following insanely unhelpful response. Though your tracker is designed to look for pressure changes based on elevation gains pressure changes due to other causes such as a gust of wind a weather change or opening a door can occasionally cause your tracker to. I tested it out and sure enough that.

Too many floors recorded. It also has to make an assumption about how many feet a floor is so it s possible that the actual distance between your floors differ which could also throw off the numbers. By any chance have you left the tracker close to a fan. Pressure changes due to things like weather or gusts of wind may record floors.

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