Steps don't equal miles

[SunsetRunner]

I have 10,625 step and when I scroll further it says 1.83 miles. Can anyone help me. I walked 3 miles this Am and it said 1.4 miles at 7,000 steps. Help?

[Paler]

I think you need to manually set up your stride length, then it should calculate more accurately on distance. The default one is always very inaccurate.

[fudge22]

I had been wondering about this as well for a while now. When I run 1.2 ish miles it says I ran 1 unless I am connected via GPS on the phone. I just updated the stride so we will see how it works now. It's hard to know what your running stride is.

There should be a place to update this info on the app, or if there is it should be more apparent as I hadn't found it in the few months that I have had my blaze. 

[Rich_Laue]

@fudge22, there is a way to set the stride on the app. Menu - Account - hamburger menu at top right - Settings - scroll to the bottom.
Then choose auto stride or manuall entry.

[Paler]

I tested the steps and distances on a treadmill (I assume it should be accurate). Perhaps you can also turn on GPS and test outside, it should also be reliable.

[SunsetRunner]

I've spoken with Fitbit and confirmed that GPS is only for mapping not calculating miles. Does anyone know what the Floors are based on? Ie 12 steps=1 floor?

[fudge22]

https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1141

Fitbit trackers that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you're going up or down in elevation. Your tracker registers one floor when you climb about ten feet at one time. It does not register floors when you go down.

Fitbit trackers do not count elevation gains on a StairMaster, inclined treadmill, or other stationary exercise equipment because your body does not change in elevation by 10 feet.

[fudge22]

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@SunsetRunner wrote:
I've spoken with Fitbit and confirmed that GPS is only for mapping not calculating miles. Does anyone know what the Floors are based on? Ie 12 steps=1 floor?

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That's weird. When I run without the GPS, the calculation for how far I have ran is based off of steps and the pre-defined stride length, yet when I connect the fitbit to my phone, the distance ran is based off of the GPS from the phone. My fitbit's pre-defined stride is a lot shorter than I actually run so it is very apparent that it is innacurate yet when connected to the GPS the fitbit knows how far I have ran and the mile splits are accurate. 

[Jrdubyakc]

@masi  I don't believe that is true. In this Help article, it says "Fitbit Blaze™ requires your nearby mobile device to track GPS data (known as connected GPS). To give you the benefits of GPS accuracy while leaving your phone at home, Blaze evaluates your GPS runs to calculate a more precise stride length and then automatically updates your account. The improved stride length ensures better distance and pace measurements even when you aren't using GPS." Everything here leads me to believe that distance is calculated by GPS when connected, but if not connected, then it uses your stride length.

And Floors are calculated on elevation change. 1 floor = 10 foot elevation change with continuous movement.

[Rich_Laue]

@SunsetRunner to add to @Jrdubyakc what typy whee tools doesn't make sense of your factoring in the auto stride feature.  As she points out for this feature to be accurate it will need to be able to determine through gps the true distance walked amd the total steps taken

[MikeS1971]

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@fudge22 wrote:

https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1141

Fitbit trackers that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you're going up or down in elevation. Your tracker registers one floor when you climb about ten feet at one time. It does not register floors when you go down.

Fitbit trackers do not count elevation gains on a StairMaster, inclined treadmill, or other stationary exercise equipment because your body does not change in elevation by 10 feet.

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This part isn't exactly true. You don't have to climb ten feet at one time. You can climb three feet, walk back down the stairs, climb three feet again, walk back down the stairs, then climb four feet. Then it will register a total of one floor climbed. If its supposed to work as described in the bolded text above, then every FitBit I've had and the ones owned by my friends and family all are defective.

[fudge22]

Yeah, I always assumed that a floor didn't need to be climbed all at once. 

[Rich_Laue]

I tried today, i must be doing something Wyoming wrong. I went up and down the 3 porch steps 20 tomes with no stairs counted. 

[MikeS1971]

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@Rich_Laue wrote:

I tried today, i must be doing something Wyoming wrong. I went up and down the 3 porch steps 20 tomes with no stairs counted. 

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Please excuse my hairy Portuguese arms.

Its about 10 vertical feet to the second floor at my work. So, half that to the landing halfway up. On the first floor that was counted, I want all the way to the top. For the second one, I went almost to the top, then turned around and went back down three times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Ywj0VutYk