06-07-2019 09:50
06-07-2019 09:50
There appears to be a shortcpming
06-07-2019 13:55
06-07-2019 13:55
Could we get a little more info @NCW.
Do you have a Fitbit tracker or are you using the mobile track on the Fitbit app.
06-07-2019 14:26
06-07-2019 14:26
06-08-2019 06:22
06-08-2019 06:22
Ok @NCW I'm still not sure what the system. There appears a short coming is about?
06-08-2019 08:25
06-08-2019 08:25
06-08-2019 09:43
06-08-2019 09:43
Where is your tracker mounted on? Is it your arm or your leg?
Is your tracker monitoring leg movements or your arm movements?
06-08-2019 11:40
06-08-2019 11:40
06-08-2019 12:23
06-08-2019 12:23
That is my point. The watch is worn on the arm and looks at the motions of the arm. It is not looking at what the feet are doing. Fitbit has fine tuned their algorithms and looks to see how these algorithms may be improved. The idea is to look for arm motions that occur while the feet are moving. Their will be times when arm motions may register as false steps. There will also be times when the feet are walking but the arms are not moving and steps may be lost. This is one of e drawbacks of having an arm based tracker.
06-08-2019 12:44
06-08-2019 12:44
06-08-2019 13:01
06-08-2019 13:01
First that me point out that I'm simply, like you, a user of a Fitbit product.
My 85 year old mom took one look at the step counter on my arm and said, "How can that work, you do not walk on your arms?".
What I'm admitting to is knowing a little bit about physics and biology.
As for sitting and moving arms. Fitbit will not count any step like movements of less than 5 between pauses. There are also the hand setting ( please play with this) to help eliminate or reduce false steps. Yes because of the way the human body works, last I looked the arm can move independent of the feet, but there are certain movements that the arm usually makes when the feet are stepping. Even the wait mounted trackers pick up extra steps simply by tapping the foot.
All I'm saying is that every arm based tracker on the market will at times pick up false strips, and at other times miss steps. My tests compared to a waist mounted unit show that they average out, with a few month totals the arm unit came within 200 steps of the clip on the waist unit.
06-08-2019 13:06
06-08-2019 13:06