Counting steps as I drive a vehicle?

[Rainbowdash88]

Hi can anyone help me my Fitbit is counting steps when I drive. It keeps clocking them when I am not walking stepping?

[Rich_Laue]

Drivebit is still a registered partner on for its partnership page and can be downloaded here. 

[gdio53]

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@Rich_Laue wrote:

Drive it is still a registered partner on for its partnership page and can be downloaded here. 

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But it does't work due to changes in Fitbit security: "To enhance security for our users, we've upgraded from OAuth 1.0a to OAuth 2.0. OAuth 2.0 is a significant improvement from OAuth 1.0a."  Drivebit doesn't work with OAuth 2.0.

[Mahesh70]

I have been using Charge 2 for 2 days now . To be honest I'm very disappointed with the step counting while driving. My tracker counted 2k + steps while I was on my two wheeler.

So today I wanted to test it in my car and so far it has counted 500 steps in a 7 Km drive in my car.

Negating is not a user friendly solution to me as I'm a sales guy and I take several short and long trips to customer places in a day and at the end of the day it's impossible to remember the time , duration etc of my drives.

Is there any other way to solve this issue ?

[Carolfb]

Me too,
This is not a cheap piece of kit. It was billed as state of the art, yet it
doesnt do what it claims.
It's not only the steps, but also the floors climbed. I climb about 6 in
my normal day, and am trying to extend this by avoiding lifts. But any
feedback on my achievement is totally lost amidst the 10-15 floors added
everytime I drive anywhere in our hilly part of the country.
This is not good enough.
My best work around has been to download travelbit and remember to press
stop and start everytime I'm behind the wheel. Surely this feature should
have been included in Charge 2 itself.
Come on Fitbit. You can do better than this!

[Mahesh70]

Why doesn't all the online review videos and articals discuss these issue ! Are these reviews trust worthy for the future ?



Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

[Carolfb]

Sadly they seem not to be.
As I said before. Come on Fitbit, you can do better than this.

[Rich_Laue]

When it comes to floors your Fitbit is trying to measure a difference in the weight of air equivalent to about the weight of a 1.5 inch square price of paper. So yes things like breezes, one window open in a house on a windy day, or an approaching storm may add extra floors.. As for missing floors of your fitbit arm is on the railing it is possible that steps are not being detected., because the arm is not bouncing up and down with your stepping. If the fitbit doesn't think your walking it won't look for changes in the air pressure. 

As for driving, it just sometimes is hard to tell if the moving up and down is from the bumps in the road, or the natural up/down motion that would happen with the fitbit in the pocket. Unfortinitly there is not a tracker on the market from any company that isn't susceptible to false steps while in the car., or with your arm simply moving up and diwn. Fitbit looks for 5 consecutive steps before it believes that a person is walking and this rules out a lot of steos. Do a search of any other tracker name and driving. 

[Scott16121]

This reply goes out to @Dominique from page #1.

LOL, you are funny. I drive from Youngstown, Oh. to Brooklyn, NY. and then to York, Pa. then I turn around and do it the opposit direction the next evening. I do this 3 times a week and log well over 2000 false steps a trip. Now if you multiply 6 days a week by 2000 then again multiply that by 52 weeks in a year you will come up with 624,000 extra steps a year. Now to me that is no laughing matter when you are dealing with false steps! This is just an estiment of the false steps and I haven't even gotten started on the Floors issue!

[USAF-Larry]

That is a lot of driving, @Scott16121 - about 600 miles a day, 6 days a week. I don't envy you driving that much.  But, even then, you say you are getting 2000 steps over 1200 miles, or about 1.67 steps per mile. Not a bad average.... 

Have you tried taking your Charge 2 off and putting it in your shirt pocket while you are driving. I do that when I am driving the truck with the RV, since the bouncing truck creates false steps, and I don't have any problem with it. 

[Scott16121]

Larry, you are correct it's right around 587 miles a night. Yes, I have turned off my Fitbit while driving until I came up with the TravelBit App. It works great for the purpose of not counting false steps and it does allow the burnt calories to be counted into your day. I would just like to see the nurds of Fitbit to add this feature to all of their products. We are not asking for them to move the earth just fix the problem. If someone else made an App to slove the problem that is enough for me to say to myself that there is a problem with the Fitbit products. Why on earth doesn't Fitbit think this way too?

[djsmith]

DriveBit is now called TravelBit. I'm not sure what it does with the steps because the Charge 2 just will not sync in a timely fashion, if at all. I did notice that the TravelBit is using the time while driving as as activity. Example - I was in my car for four short trips, 22 minutes in all. On the Exercise page of the app it counted those trips as an activity for today and it actually says, "3 of 5 Days, Almost to your goal! You’re right on track." So now not only are the steps inaccurate, the exercise is also inaccurate. I don’t consider driving a physical activity. This is just so frustrating.

[djsmith]

DriveBit is now called TravelBit. I'm not sure what it does with the steps because the Charge 2 just will not sync in a timely fashion if at all. I did notice that the TravelBit using the time while driving as as activity. Example - I was in my car for four short trips, 22 minutes in all. On the Exercise page of the app it counted those trips as an activity and it actually says, "3 of 5 Days, Almost to your goal! You’re right on track." So now not only are the steps inaccurate, the exercise is also inaccurate. I don’t consider driving a physical activity.

[Carolfb]

I absolutely agree. It is very frustrating! Almost nothing is accurate
except the info I enter myself such as how much water I drink! I was so
looking forward to having a fitbit and I am so disappointed with it.

[Rich_Laue]

Like every tracker on the market, this is one of the biggest complaints with the AW, bumping around during a car ride may produce false steps. 

Yes @djsmith logging driving, as any other event will show up as a logged activity. 

But the purpose is to make steps more axxurate, not less because it removes the false steps occured during a ride. 

Travel but is an app that uses the new API, Drive but from another company looks abandoned since it has not been updated yet. 

[Newbie_2017]

That didn't work for me! I could select the data I wanted to negate

[bikerbec]

I drove my school bus today for the first time afte recieving my fitbit and I know thats a workout for the upper body, but I did not walk 5,000 steps and climb 6 flights of stairs!

[Newbie_2017]

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@DerrickFitbit wrote:

@mzdov If the 93 steps were steps that were falsely recorded, I would definitely recommend negating them by manually logging "Driving". This will negate both floors and steps for the duration of of the log.

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II didn't work!!!! Does it take the steps away at the end of the day? Or the start of the next day?

[FZ1]

I will need to try the manual driving entry as my charge 2 will count well over a thousand steps on my drive to work. Roads are a bit rough as is my heavy duty pick up. Also counts in my work truck as well. 

[SunsetRunner]

Placing the burden on the user to record steps while driving is no solution at all.  Especially since the devices have two-way communication with smartphones, which have GPS buil into them.  The device should know, based on rate of travel and distance completed within a certain internval of time, whether its user is walking/running or traveling in a vehicle.  I'm not sure if GPS software is smart enough to indicate that the wearer is on a highway ( yes or no ), which would be another clue that the owner is likely not traveling on foot.

There are FitBit users that are in-and-out of their vehicles all day long due to the type of job they have. Should they be asked to note each time they get in-and-out of their vehicle?  That's just absurd.  FitBit should handle this through intelligent programming.

I made similar suggetions to FitBit before and never got an answer.  They kept responding with either canned answers or some alternative.  One of the alternatives seems to help.  I'm right handed and I now wear the gadget on my right hand.  This is noted in the configuration.  I seem to have fewer false steps.  You can wear the FitBit on your dominant hand and make the appropriate change in the configuration and see if that helps you as well.

Good luck.

[KerrySteps]

My charge 2 logged over 1000 steps in my handbag on the floor of the car on a drive. Is there a solution to this. I noticed it also logs steps on my wrist while travelling. This is not good as we are currently travelling so my steps will not be accurate