Hi,
I heard back from Fitbit via Facebook and via community.
They told me Fitbit doesn’t record downstairs movement. Only going UP STAIRS . It has a altitude sensor in it, and when you use steps to climb at least 10 feet, the sensor senses a change in barometric pressure and records 1 floor climbed.
If you didn’t actually climb any stairs and your Fitbit registered floors, it is apparently a glitch that occurs when there is a barometric pressure low in the WEATHER. (Ex: when there is heavy cloud cover and a storm is coming or you are actually in a storm outside.). This glitch can occur when you open a window , they said. It changes the barometric pressure in a room.
Mine was NOT registering some floors I climbed because 1) I paused a few times while climbing and didn’t get to the minimum 10 feet altitude change , and Fitbit stooped recognizing the rest of the floor afterwards, since the remaining change wasn’t 10 feet either. 2) I had the wristband too tight and the sweat and lack of air beneath the tracker interferes with the altitude sensor’s measuring of barometric pressure changes.
Once I loosened the wristband and dried the back of the tracker, and stopped pausing during a climb up the stairs, it correctly tracked all the floors I subsequently climbed, with no further glitches. 😊
Regarding the lack of “activity”, that feature involves specific sustained movement at an elevated heart rate and calorie expenditure, and is tied to specific activities like real walking, running, biking, aerobics, biking, swimming, etc (see your Fitbit for the full list included and how you can start the tracking of these specific activities) Note that simulated activities are not tracked: stationary bikes, elliptical machines, etc (which I DO find annoying and disappointing)
Don’t worry about that feature (activity) as much as the calories burned feature. It is ultimately tracking your actual activity., whether it involves your feet stepping in the real world (tracked by GPS) or not.
Explore your Fitbit features thoroughly before giving up on it!
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