Step count

[Jenruffin]

Does anyone else have the problem of the Fitbit blaze counting steps while your laying in bed? All I have to do is swing my arm back and forth and the count goes up.

[Rich_Laue]

he blaze won't start counting steps until it sees 5 step like mives.. Yes anytime that you swing your arm in a way that the tracker thinks your walking, steps will be recorded.. This is because the Blaze mounted on the arm will be monitoring the arm.

[notec]

playing guitar counts as steps too...

[Rich_Laue]

So does playing the piano, with the guitar the tracker could be put on the other arm. Setting it for dominant hand might help a little.

[Colinm39]

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@Jenruffin wrote:
Does anyone else have the problem of the Fitbit blaze counting steps while your laying in bed? All I have to do is swing my arm back and forth and the count goes up.

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@Jenruffin Welcome.. Yes, Fitbit is a movement detector and for my last nights 9 hours elapsed sleep time which included a bathroom break and fix a computer problem for my night owl musician son, there were only 274 steps movement.  That is a typical nights movement unless I have extra blankets and I get too hot, the night before was only 67 steps because I only used one blanket and only one bathroom visit.

I also find it interesting with the way resting heart rate varies with sleeping temperature..

Here is the record, and those steps help cover some of  the missed steps from a wrist tracker.