My Inspire HR is overcounting steps.

[JanBod]

Last week I bought Inspire HR trackers for my wife and myself mainly in order to track steps, but it seems to count arm movements and not steps.

Yesterday I was working in the garden and the tracker counted 22.040 steps, whereas the Health app on my iPhone counted 4.823 steps.

I ware the tracker on my non-dominant wrist.

Even pouring a glass of water from a jug counts 6 steps. (with my non-dominant arm)

I know that it is a cheap device, but it is quite useless if I cannot trust the data.

Is this a standard weakness of the tracker or are ours defect ??

Best regards

Jan

[AlvaroFitbit]

@JanBod A warm welcome to our Community!

Let me help you with your Inspire HR overcounting steps. Your device will detect the movement on your arm and translate that movement into steps. There are situations in which your arm may move but you won't be actually walking. For example, this may happen when you are playing the drums, burping a baby or clapping. It can also happen when driving. You can negate these steps by logging a driving activity. You can try wearing your device on your non dominant hand but select that hand as dominant on the device’s settings to make it less sensitive to movement.

Let me know how it goes.