Inaccuracy with Blaze's Auto Exercise Recognition

[affolter56]

I've been noticing that my Blaze has been logging inaccurate workouts with the "auto exercise recognition" feature. It seems to be happening more and more lately. Is anybody else having this issue, and can I turn this feature off?

[Rich_Laue]

@affolter56 if your interested in if it is happening to others, a simple search of the forum will give you an answer.

My question for you is what type of inaccuracy, you give no details.

Some find that non exercise is being registered as exercise, such as driving registered as eliptical.

Others say not the whole period recorded, this is related to stop/start times are off.

Some have found that an exercise was not detected.

[affolter56]

I did search and couldn't find the answer I was looking for, hence why I posted here. The issue is that it will record a simply walk as a bike ride. It's categorizing workouts incorrectly, which is a new issue. It rarely did this in the past. The times aren't always accurate but they are within 5-10 minutes which is acceptable to me. As much as I like Fitbit and my Blaze, I'm seriously considering going to an Apple Watch.

[Rich_Laue · Accepted solution]

Thank you, specific details are very helpful.

First thing i suggest is to disable any unwanted auto recognized events, this also will help in the battery life of the tracker.

Why did it start, not sure, are you wearing tye tracker different? Did it start after the last firmware? Could be a problem with the firmware.

As for start and stop times, thats why i disabled all the events but workout and walk, preferring to manually start and stop. 

[affolter56]

Excellent advice! Thank you very much for your help.