Active Minutes vs Exercise

[astano]

I have set my fitbit to only auto recognise a walk as exercise if it's over 45 minutes as I walk the dog 30 mins a day and so was finding it too easy to meet my weekly exercise target. Today, however, I decided I'd worked quite hard as the walk was very hilly and wanted to manually log the walk as exercise.

After I did this, however, the time spent walking was no longer counted as 'active minutes'. When I deleted the walk from the exercise tab that time once again counted towards my active minutes.

This must surely be a bug in the software.

[Rich_Laue]

Well now @astano manually adding a walk after the fact, will override any data from the tracker. 

It also will take the data and spread it evenly across the time period.. We normally do not walk at a single pace. 

Also when manually adding, Fitbit doesn't know about hills, your heart rate does. 

So why depend on the auto detect rather than manually starting the walk mode on your ionic. 

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