What is a floor

[Mgash01]

Who the hell cares on a hike how many stupid "floors" you climbed. It would be nice to see feet or meters. This has to the most stupid thing I have seen in a tracker. Give me feet not useless "floors". I don't want to have to do math ro figure this out on a hike

[SteveH]

Floor tracking isn't ideal for tracking height gain on a hike.

You get a floor tracked when your fitbit detects a rise in elevation of 10 feet (through changes in air pressure) while you are walking. You don't get partial floors so if you rise 8 feet then level off or if you pause after 6 feet then they do not count.

So, taking your floors climbed on a hike and multiplying by 10 gives only a partial view of elevation gain as it excludes all the partial floors.

At the end of the day fitbit provide a floor tracker not an elevation gain. 

[Mgash01]

You can feed me whatever line of BS you want. But using the stupid floor as
your elevation is ridiculous. I wish I never got this dam watch. Your
software sucks

[SteveH]

You're welcome

PS I don't work for fitbit

[Mgash01]

Sorry I thought you did. I found customer support to be extremely rude and condescending. But still who wants to look at floors when you're out hiking. Who wants to do the math while you're out running. It's a stupid metric and they should change it. It also is nice how when you're walking up a huge hill and the heart rate monitor wont-work. Or says your heart rate is it seventy-five.

[Mariposawisdom]

The floor feature makes no sense. I use an elevator in my building ( I am disabled with mobility issues so I am working on my health at my pace. Currently stairs are a no-no)

Anyway apparently I got like 20 floors though I may have used the elevator to go up or down 1 floor 4x today.  This is not really a helpful metric.

[Guy_]

Hi @Mariposawisdom - floors is only an indication and not used with other metrics - you can ignore it and even remove it from the Fitbit App, Click Edit [top right] to remove it. Some watches have a faulty sensor and in addition it shouldn't count any floors in an elevator.